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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Showing 2 responses by gearhead81

I’m surprised no one has mentioned the Focus Aegis or Gt audio works rooms. Was blown away by both. Is it just that these aren’t new speakers so everyone has heard them already? I was let down by tekton moabs - small room and just played a cd on repeat on pretty low volume. Seemed like the opposite approach to take for such a massive speaker. Zu audio either had a room too big for its speaker , or had a weird selection of atmospheric music . It sounded very muffled to me. That would have been a great room for tekton . 
Im literally kicking myself for not seeing the Spatial and Salk rooms, how did i miss it?  

For anyone who has heard the Spatial's, are they good all arounders, considered them to be pretty detailed also? Or are they more of a gimmick that does a huge sound but loses things in the mix as a tradeoff? 

How about the salks which i believe are the models that sell for around 6k with BE tweeters (if i saw the photos correctly)? Are those winners at that price point?