audition spots in los angeles

Emailists,

Elliot Midwood of Acoustic Image has an amazing, specially designed, listening room in his in-house store. He carries mid, high-end, and ultra high-end equipment.

Elliot is terrific to talk to and extremely knowledgeable about all things audio related. By appointment only, though.

Here's a mini review of his HE 2006 room. I spent quite a while in there and it was everything and more than this review states. Absolutely incredible. Of course, for >$125k, it should be. Also, Elliot has great taste in music.

Evolution audio video in Agoura. Ask for John.

I'm visiting LA this week.

Can anyone suggest a place to hear Sound Labs or other
top performing speakers?

Don't need to hear Wilson as I can do that locally.

Ambrosia is out of business!

Systems Design Group is by far the best place in the South Bay. They are off of Kingsdale in Redondo Beach.

Here's a post I wrote for my experience with them when I bought my Avlar Prodigy speakers:

http://stunewsandphotos.blogspot.com/2006/01/avlar-prodigy-loudspeakers.html

Suffice it to say that Dave and Jerry at Systems Design Group make the experience wonderful. They are patient and almost anti-sales. Dave even came by my place to make sure they sounded right. Since then, I've bought more equipment from them, including a Rotel head unit and CD player. If I can, I'll buy more stuff from them as holiday presents.

One of the best rooms that I've heard that's been set up specifically for sound quality is at Precision A/V in Moorpark, a little north of L.A. It's a large room with some excellent audio. There is a lot of good to great equipment out there, but sadly not too many rooms configured to let the equipment really show its stuff. This is certainly one of the best that I've found.
Enjoy.

thanks everyone. i'll try to check every one of these locations... i appreciate it. brad hilliker

Go to Systems Design Group in Redondo Beach. Their web page is:

http://www.systemsdesigngroup.net/

They have a good selection of gear but they have the Avlar speakers, I don't know anywhere else that you can hear them.
Jerry the owner is a partner in the Speakers and will give you a great demo.

Have Fun,

John

Another one is automation CH on Wilshire and Centinela, some good stuff, as well as LA Audio Video and the Sound Factor, enjoy!

One of the best shops in the LA area is Ambrosia Audio.
Check them out at www.ambrosia.com