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I would like to see what level of interest there is in re-starting a Washington-DC area Audio Society. F2Audio held a meeting in Falls Church last summer that was well attended. Unfortunately, the attendance list no longer exists. F2Audio is closing and being replaced by Command Performance AV (same owner Jeff). I am willing to host an upcoming meeting at our location in Falls Church. I am sure we could get a manufacturer to speak to us. I was thinking of having a meeting towards the end of Sept. What might be fun for an October meeting is to have mini-trip reports of what was cool at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest.

I am open to suggestions as to topics or if someone else would rather host. My goals are to 1) try to get the Society going and 2) this time keep it going.

If anyone is interested in a meeting please post here AND email me at jeff@commandav.com so that I can send updates to everyone via email.

-- Jeff
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mapman
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YEs.

Is GOTO the company that made the horn speaker system there? I have been trying to figure that out. I deduced the gentleman in the room was the designer, but I was not able to identify the company that made it. I assumed it was a custom design and not one that is mass produced.

IS Luminous Audio the distributor of the gear used in that system, perhaps?
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Capital Audio Fest was a very nice event. I don't see how they made any money, but I hope they do it again.

The venue was gorgeous and really helped add a lot of ambiance to the overall experience. In the room to the left rear of teh first floor with the big SOTA horn system, I felt a bit trasported back 100 years or so but with a fantastic 21st century system leveraging the best of old and new in one place.

The box with free records for attendees was a very nice touch! I could have spent a whole day browsing through the vinyl collection titles available for sale alone.

The sound of the systems set ranged mostly from very good to quite stellar. There were some good audio values to be found there to boot. Nicely done!
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The systems that caught my ear that I spent time listening to were the JC Verdier/Dynamic Sounds room with the custom horns (the Dynamic Sounds phono pre-amp was dead quiet and most dynamic even on this highly revealing rig), the Cathedral speakers, the room demoing Magico V3 and comparable YG aCOUSTICS, AND United Audio with their mbl and RTR setup (which was good but not set up as well as their showroom), and the little Jolida integrated running the Nola monitors, which was the best sound value of the show that I could see.

The Joseph Audio monitors running off the Manley gear also sounded quite good and garnered a lot of attention albeit in a fairly small room.
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I'm still out there in Northern Maryland area and always interested in all things audio, especially if local.
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