Best sound at Stereophile show.


I got to rate the Dynaudio room as the best sounding Room. They used the Dynaudio C4 speakers which listed for 16,000. All I can say is, they sounded incredible. They sound very smooth with an amazing soundstage. Bass was really good.

I also liked the Gamut Room. Gamut used probably the largest Amp I'v ever seen. The Amp weighed 400 pounds. Speakers were the Pipedreams with the Gamut CD Player. The system sounded very 3 dimentional with a good bass response. I also got to thank Ole Lund Christensen. He's the designer of Gamut. He played by far the best music. He played upbeat classical, where you could judge the midrange and bass of the speakers. He also played brick in the wall by Pink Floyd. I felt to many rooms played to much Jazz and violin music, where you just couldn't judge the speakers. Also, Ole played what ever CD you gave him.

I also loved the Wilson Watt Puppies 7. What totally amazed me. Wilson played alot of the time, the Watt Puppies 7 with the massive Wilson Sub. I thought that Sub would totally boom up the bass on the Watt Puppies. But it was the exact opposite. The Wilson Sub blended in so perfectly with the Wilson Watt Puppy 7 speakers.

I also liked the Tact room. They had those new Tact speakers that must have been 7 feet tall. They sounded great.

Most amazing home theater performance had to be in the Audio Video Creations room. They used a Pioneer 50 inch Plasma TV. Krell multichannel Amps, Krell Preamp processor, Krell DVD Player, Piega speakers and Piega Sub. They played clips from Jurassic Park and Matrix. Holy Moley did this system sound unbelievable. It was so incredible sounding.

Another thing that really impressed me. In the NAD room, one of the people there downloaded a Jewel peformance from the Jay Leno show on High Definition TV. They downloaded the Jewel performance to a hard drive, then transferred it to a DVD recorder. This picture quality was amazing. It was so perfect the picture.

I also really liked this Antique Sound Headphone Amp with Senheiser headphones. It listed for 1200 dollars. You could also used this as a preamp. The Antique Headphone Amp used 2A3 Tubes. It sounded so perfect and could go very loud without breaking up. Plus it had that nice tube sound.

Also alot of the designers were really nice. I mentioned Ole. Al from Dynaudio, Mark O'brien from Rougue Audio, Dale Fontenot from Roman Audio speakers, Alan Yun from Silverline, Tash Goka from Divergent technologies and Gilbert Young from Blue Circle were really good guys.
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Tekunda, about the 7' Pipedreams in the Clinton Room - the Tenors powered the midrange/tweeter towers and a large Plinius amp powered the 4 18" woofer cyclinders (two per side). The sources were a custom analog rig of Tenor's own design and the Audio Aero Capitole II CDP. Tenor also powered the new Chesky C1 speakers on the sixth floor, and the remote demo (on West 86th ST) of the Talon Khorus-X.
The Dynaudio C4's/Naim Electronics was easily the best sound at the show. Runner up would be the Joseph/Manley room. The most important impression I got from the Wilson room was how much better the music sounded from whatever turntable they were using as compared to whatever digital source they were using. Finally, the best budget sound at the show was the Divergent Room, running Antique Sound Labs into the Heavenly Reference 3A DeCapo i's. Runner up and award for the nicest representative from a company was easily the man in the Totem room. Last but not least, the best sound from a budget/unknown speaker was the DeVore Gibbon 8's running from $15,000+ VTL electronics. Kind of defeats the purpose of a budget speaker. Thanks for reading.
The Clinton room did not have the production Audio Aero Capitole MKII.This was the prototype used in the Frankfurt show.Though there was some seriously expensive equipment in the room,money doesn't nesecarely buy great sound.
Here is the opinion of a seasoned audiophile (20 years) who is not deaf and ownes a high resolution analogue system in a dedicated room (the room and set up being the most important components)- Best sounds in no particular order:
Lamm / Kharma
Acoustic Dreams Lumen White / Vaic
Verity Parsifal Encore / Nagra
Tenor / Pipedreams
Eggleston Savoy / CAT
Joseph Audio / Manley

Most dissapointing was the Airfoil and Viola rooms. The scariest thing was that Anthony DiSalvo of Viola (formally Cello ?) appeared to be proud of the demo.