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Axpona 2018

Went again this year and found the show to be larger, higher quality sounding rooms than previous shows. I have been to many brick and mortar stores which have good sounding rooms, but at Axpona this year many rooms were better sounding than their store show rooms!

My best sounding large room was the VAC/Von Schweikert Audio/Esoteric, room. The Wilson room with the DCS stack was also very good. My best small room, and there were many, was the Gershman Accoustics room, their new speakers were sounding great with top end electronics. Also, I was impressed with NOLA room again.

 

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dgarretson
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Unfortunately I missed Axpona this year.  Did anyone hear the HHR Exotic speakers?  They are a modern take on the single driver Walsh omni that may do some things as well or better than MBL or German Physiks.
dgarretson
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@jab and @raceone

Thanks for your impressions on the HHR Exotic.  Hopefully he was demoing the single-driver crossover-less full range model based on the Ohm A or F.  He also has a smaller two-way with a conventional woofer.  I'm drawn to the time and phase coherence of the Walsh driver, but am a little concerned that the HHRs are dynamically constrained due to the excursion limits of the driver.  By contrast, the MBLs play much louder, but sometimes reveal discontinuities in the crossovers between multiple drivers.

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