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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.
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willemj, OK, you’ve convinced me! The biggest market must be the one with the best sound. Or at least the one with sound just as good as high end sound. Why else would it be so popular? I did not realize there were so many connoisseurs of good sound. 😃 Of course, your whole screed begs the age-old and *important question* - can a tweaked Mid Fi system beat an untweaked High End System?

Addendum: I hate to judge too quickly but this particular post of yours appears to set the stage for a philosophical war between economics and physics. 😦

Geoff Kait
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Uh, oh! Maybe Ohms are supposed to be pro audio now. 😀
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NYC has gotta be the worst case scenario for seismic vibration, you know, what with the traffic, the subway, and the pedestrians! One imagines the power grid in NYC and RFI are not without issues. 😀It’s no wonder systems sound horrible in NYC. Las Vegas is not exactly the Fortress of Solitude when it comes to seismic vibration. It would be pretty much a fool's errand to try to set up a HiFi system in either city and expect very much.
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