New York HiFi Show: Tubes and Turntables


I was at the New York HiFi Show today.  It was hard to find many CD players, despite one with a price tag $40,000.  Virtually every room featured turntables and tubes. Sonically, it was a definite improvement over shows in the past.  Not too much sizzle and boom, although a lot of systems demonstrated big bass. Natural sounding components were the rule.
There were hardly any systems affordable by the average audiophile.  $100,000 rigs were not unusual. It seems demonstrators were prone to showing their best.
 With all the myriad of exotic stuff, I’m sorry I can’t remember too many names, but the re-introduction of sophisticated treble and bass controls and room-conditioning processors were impressive.
Of course, streaming was featured in many displays.
It wasn’t a large show, so it was comfortably do-able in one day.
rvpiano

Showing 3 responses by asvjerry

I'd like to 'hear' some additional commentary from any who were actually present for demos or at least visited the space...good, bad, or indifferent.

Not being able to attend any of these major (or minor) shows does force one to depend on the observations of others, 'omni fans' or no...  And 'hotel room venues' tend to more 'typical and average' in their presentation, as opposed to the potentially 'highly massaged' audiophile space... or even a decent showroom...

Thoughts and observations, please, and Thank You. *S*
trelja, thanks....*S*  I'll agree with ML's...nice units.  I've a soft spot for esl's, since in some ways they gave rise to ribbons and AMT's.  I'm a dipole fanboy as well as 'things omni'...and mapman and I do share an appreciation for Ohms.  I'm just an extremist in terms of that 'breed' of driver, which some may realize or have noted...;)

I'd be surprised if Ohm didn't make an appearance at a NY, NY audio show, being a 'local' after all.  And, understood, omnis are an acquired  taste and respond to attention paid to 'upstream' components and their 'environment'...

Gee, where have we noticed that, elsewhere...and with what....;)

Cambridge...*G*, well, again, another 'local', not as exciting or enthralling as others, but...  Solid stuff, been around awhile, and when a show is so anemic as this one seemed to be, some additional 'flesh on the bones' was probably welcomed by the promoters...

Maybe next year, huh? *G*
trelja, well...*G*  Just shows to go ya'....

One can't please everyone....and if you could, you probably would hate it and what you'd be doing to do so.  IMHO....