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Audio Troy Capital Audio Fest the good, the bad and the ugly!

Just came back from the great Capital Audio Fest.

A lot of great rooms, a few surprises, missing brands, and some winners and losers.

The great:

Doug Whites The Voice that is system of Tidal gear, Innous Statement, and Tidal loudspeakers just was stunning sounding.

The big Genesis system in the Vpi room was quite excellent. 

The Old Forge room's Sound Kaos speakers were superb.

The Cat room with the Kef Blades proved the Kef Blades are a true contender with way more expensive loudspeakers.

Dadelius speakers sounded very good, unfortunately the system was $200k!

The Bad:

The $120k Devore's new reference speakers were good but not $120k good at this demo

More to come.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ
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bluorion
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This was my very first audio fest experience and we had a great time. We started early on Saturday morning since we were staying in the hotel. I noticed that most of the 'early birds' were older folks but as the day went on, there were more younger people there. It was great to see so many young people visiting the larger conference rooms. We had to checkout at 1 and head back home so unfortunately we didn't get to go to all the rooms.
My favs were the following:

1. Sanders Sound Systems--Beautiful sounding electrostatic speakers and amps. I was quite impressed.
2. Raven Audio--I never heard of them until the show.
3. Fern & Roby/LTA/Modwright--I finally met Dan Wright, super nice. The Fern and Roby Raven speakers sound great. Loved their new audio racks and TT.
4. LTA Headphone room--Super friendly folks there. A lot of fun.
5. VAC room--Amazing! It was like being in a museum. The equipment looked too beautiful (and expensive) to touch! 
6. Zu Audio. I wish they had more speakers but the Dirty Weekends were excellent. I was impressed that they were playing something other than jazz.

All in all it was a fun show---so happy I got to go this year. I will try to go to some of the seminars next year. Hopefully I'll be able to get to Axpona next year.
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