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
audiotroy

Showing 1 response by verdantaudio

@pops thanks for the callout above.  Really appreciate it.  
Since I was working the show, I didn’t get to many rooms but the guys next door to me at MC Audiotech had a really different speaker.  I got to hear a couple different instrumentals on it and they sounded great.  
In regards to music choice, we played everything from Mahler to Dream Theater. If the room was quiet we asked most consumers what they wanted to hear and learned a lot of great tracks.  Instrumentals and soft vocals were what was being requested.  When nothing was requested I am biased toward 70s to early 90s lighter rock (ELO, Cars, Murray Head, 10,000 Maniacs) because you can hear a lot of detail.  We did play an abnormally large amount of Cars in tribute to Rick Ocasek bit that was my choice.