Anyone going to the NY Audio show today to Sunday

I went on Friday and again on Sunday. I thought the best room was the LessLoss room, where a prototype digital setup and Pass Labs monoblocs were driving Kaiser Kawero speakers. I thought they were very musical with great tone and a deep soundstage. I thought they surpassed everything else I heard significantly, although all the power conditioning and the larger room may have played a big role.

The Joseph Audio Pulsars sounded bright to me on Friday, but a lot better on Sunday. The Joseph Pearls in the VPI room sounded quite good, I thought, but didn't seem to extend very low for such a large speaker.

I liked the Coincident room quite a bit and the smaller GamuT speakers in the Woodbridge Audio room. (The larger GamuT speakers were in use on Sunday and completely overloaded the room with bass.) The Vivid Giyas driven by Mola Mola amps also sounded good. The best monitors I heard were Raidho driven by the Merill Veritas monos. For monitors, they packed quite a wallop.

I agree that the vast majority of rooms were very expensive yet mediocre. The only room that really stood out for me was the LessLoss room, where I felt I was listening to and really enjoying music.

I also felt the Coincident room was creating music, although it did not sound on par with the Kaiser Kaweros in the LessLoss room. (Nor should it have -- the Coincident equipment is substantially less expensive and was stuffed into a smaller room.)

In most other rooms, I felt like I was hearing audio systems being put through their paces. This applied to the Wilson rooms, the Audio Doctor/KEF Blade room, and the Woodbridge Audio/GamuT room. By the way, I did not like the Sound by Singer room. I used to own VAC gear and love it. Maybe the Raidho speakers were the issue, but the VAC/Raidho system Singer had on display sounded very artificial and "plasticky" to me both times I heard it.

That said, I assume that room acoustics were partly to blame in some rooms. There were quite a few rooms with speakers that were clearly too big for the space. Those massive GamuT speakers in the small Woodbridge Audio room looked and sounded ridiculous in that space. The Vivids also seemed way too big for the room they were in.