NY Audio Show September 26th to September 28th

Naim will have their 200,000 dollar statement mono amps and Statement Preamp on the JM Lab Stella Utopia speakers at the show.

Vandersteen 7's will be playing at the show.
They'll be in the Audio Connection Room.

Acoustic Zen will be playing their Crescendo speakers in their room.

The exhibitors are a joke.

After years of traveling to audio shows,initially as a retail dealer and now a consumer hobbyist,there is one major difference that the NY City marketplace brings to the gambit and that is the public comes to buy and the vendors, many being local audio storefront dealers, are definitely there to cut Deals!

EBM, I do not understand your commentary. You obviously were not in attendance at the initial Rocky Mountain Show where the floors were absolutely void of humanity or lived through the length of time it took privately promoted audio shows to recover after CES moved from Chicago to Las Vegas. There were years of emptiness.

I am from the camp where all audio shows are worth attending no matter how small or large. This show is what, a couple years old? Soon it will spark the interest of many manufacturers simply because NYC is a substantial buyers market for high end audio.

If an audio show comes to a neighborhood near you – attend it! It can be the difference in making your next purchase a wiser decision allowing you to put more “bird” on the table.

See you there!

No Magico or YG. Sad.

Neal

Several manufacturers are not being represented at this show due to its inconsiderate scheduling. The show begins during the observance of the Jewish high holiday Rosh Hashanah.

LampizatOr will be exhibiting in two rooms at this upcoming show.

In room 383 we will be showing our new Big 7 DAC, TranspOrt, GM-70 mono blocks and debuting our new Head DAC!

Also present will be Mosaic Acoustics debuting their breath taking Lux speakers and Wavebridge Power conditioner as well as cabling, and with mechanical grounding shelves provided by Star Sound Audio.

In room 373 we will be showing our Big 7 along with a Level 4 DAC as we partner with our friends of Gingko Audio, Wells Audio and Danacables.

Doug99 misspeaks above. It is a list of brands being exhibited by (mostly) dealers NOT manufacturers. Big step down from the original Stereophile shows IMO.

Russ

From what I've read so far, there aren't many major manufactures attending that appeal to me. I didn't see either Lyric or Innovative Audio (vendors) attending either. I don't want to go and mainly check out cables, headphones or 2nd/3rd tier manufacturers. I don't plan to go.

Several major NYC area dealers (Ears Nova, Sound by Singer and one other one I can't remember) had a letter to the Editor of this month's Stereophile explaining that they won't be there because of the conflict with Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year holiday.)

It will be so good to go to a show and not see Andy Singer!

Newton,

Not too sure what 2nd or 3rd tier manufacturers are?

If you are referring to smaller sized manufacturers struggling for name brand recognition, it has been my experience that this is where many of the breakthroughs in design and equipment performance are initially introduced. I am sure of one thing and that is every audio company has crossed those lower “tiers” at one time in their history.

I’m going for the education, listening experiences, as one can never get enough of those, and finally purchase more music! Not too often one gets to rub elbows with the larger vinyl distributors and I am sure they will be running sales or are always open to dealing so you can save money or purchase even more music.

NYC and an audio show is my kind of weekend.

See you there,

I think I spoke with him once at SBS.

SBS was a cool place, at least when the gear on display was working properly. There were some nice sales guys there.

I will miss Fat Andy Pastrami Singer as his rooms always had good sound.

Give Andy Singer a break. I've talked with him a few times at these shows and he was always friendly and non-condescending knowing all the while that I was not a potential customer.

You know, this kind of juvenile and frankly stupid posting was disallowed years ago on the forum. I remember the case of Audiofeil who ended up being banned. I cannot for the life of me understand why the moderator does not step in here. Are we back to the good old days of anything goes?

Love the good old days.Thanks

get older -- love good old days.

If anyone drives to the show, there's a garage parking lot next to the hotel.
Its 20 dollars parking for 12 hours.

Devore Fidelity is not showing but does anyone know if his speakers will be in the show driven by someone else's amps?
Thanks.

There's a speaker at the show called MURAUDIO.
Its a 360 degree point source, omni-directional electrostatic loudspeaker. Here's how they look.
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The TT in the Muraudio room will be a Jean Nantais Lenco. Just thought I would mention this, since someone brought up Muraudio. I have no affiliation with Muraudio or Nantais, other than being an interested customer for the latter.

I must say the show was much better than i thought.

Agreed. The relaxed Brooklyn setting and spacious Marriot surpassed prior Manhattan venues. Relatively few OEMs were exhibiting, but the large number of retailers involved suggests that that the sales channel is in better shape than I thought.

So at the show you ate Crow instead of Turkey? :)
I am attending Sunday.

Ill be there sunday as well .

Ebm, Jetrexpro and I are meeting, there. You are very much welcomed.
If we plan to lunch, I'd buy you a drink.

I messaged you my phone number, in case.

I attended yesterday, had a blast, heard some great gear, experienced some awesome demos and really enjoyed the show. Large enough to move around and not too crowded so double fun with being able to listen (front and center was pretty easy to get to) as much as you liked. Also bought some really good music. Good venders as well.

Hi Brett,
Good to know you and Jetrexpro will be there. If either of you have the inclination, I would be interested in getting both of your impressions of the show and what you all liked. The three of us seem to have similar taste.
Charles,

I'm curious for thoughts on the Muraudio omnidirectional stats. They sounded only so-so on Friday, but perhaps improved through the weekend?

Meet me at Acoustic Sounds records on second floor at 12:00pm.Im wearing a blue shirt and gray shouts.Thanks ED

Kudos to the NY Show organizers for making this show FREE.

wrong show in NY area - apologies... :^(

Would also like to hear impressions of the Muraudio room.

The muraudio audio room was one of, if not, THE, most underwhelming, to me. I got out of it that their intent was spraying the room with omnidirectional sound, IE, the same decent sound/soundstage, throughout the room, whereveer you sat (I didn't thikn as much standing, but close) and they succeeded. If they were trying for good 2 channel sound, not too much and last (or close to) for my tastes and ears.

Dropped by this morning and it was moderately busy. Some nice things, but most of the sound was boring or just plain bad. Highwater Sound had a very nice room and played tasteful jazz and classical. Jeff Catalano was going on with someone about how cables were absolute BS. If you like music on the louder side, MBL is the best I've heard. I generally hate big speakers with big solid state amps, but the MBLs play with absolutely no stress. The worst sound I heard by far was the big Focals in the VAC room. The speakers were probably too large for the room and there was no bass and a harsh midrange. The VPI room was pretty nice, with a pair of the big Tannoys. More my kind of speaker. The high point of the show for me was probably the Abyss headphones. I'm not a headphone person and I listened to several of the expensive phones, but the Abyss had the absolutely least confined sound of any phone I've ever heard. No sense of the sound coming from the earpads. Quite amazing.
So, all in all, it was worth the $30 and I hope to see more of them. $30 doesn't buy much entertainment (or anything else) nowdays, so it was pretty good.

Hi Chayro,
Was Jeff Catalano using the Horning speakers and what amplifiers was he using during your visit?
Charles,

The speakers that totally blew me away were the Volti Audio Horns. They probably needed a bigger room.

Charles - no, he wasn't using the Horning. He was showing the Verity Audio speakers. I forgot the model, but I think they were $25K, if that helps. I honestly can't remember what amps he was using, but the TT was TW Acustic, of course. Can't remember the model, but it wasn't anything huge. It was a very real-world system, unlike many others that require huge amounts of space. Frankly, I'm just not that much of a gearhead, where I'm taking note of every component.

Thanks Chayro,
I understand the gearhead comment. I know he's demonstrated the Horning before and was curious if you heard them that's all.vI've heard his rooms on three occasions but always with the Cessaro horn models.
Charles,

Charles, Brett and I were hangin. As I mentioned above, I was blown away by Volti. I just kept going back to that room. They were being driven by a great sounding push-pull 300b amp. I also enjoyed the Audio Note room -That would be expected I :). I liked the MBL room very much!

Thanks Jet,
I'm glad you and Brett enjoyed yourselves. Was the amplifier driving the Volti the Border Patrol? I know that they've shown together successfully in the past.
Charles,

I should mention Vanatoo Powered mini speakers. I heard them and was immediately impressed with their musicality and the way these little speakers filled the room with warm music. Both of their demo units sold at the show and my violinist friend who was looking for mini's ordered a pair as well. They are doing something very right at around $500!

Charles, The Volti was being driven by a Raven Preamp and Raven 26 watt 300b push-pull. They were using Sophia Royal Princess tubes. I will not soon forget the sound, power and immediacy of that system. I have not heard orchestra music sound like that from an audio system before.

Hi Charles, The Volti Vittoria speakers were very impressive. I won't reiterate David's findings as we basically agreed throughout the show.
I should mention the Woo Audio room with their 300B amplifiers driving OMA small "Mini" model two way speakers. As an aside, the music was provided by M A Recordings. The Owner/Recording Tech was working the room and had limited amount of CD's and three different LP albums available for sale
I got one very nice LP.

MBL room, VPI with vintage Tannoys and new VPI integrated based on vintage Scott, Legacy/Ayon, Lampizator---all my favorite rooms in no particular order

Hi Brett,
I knew you and David(Jetrexpro) would sniff out and identify the good stuff. Thank you both for your comments.
Charles,

EBM, no Turkeys?

Gpgr,

I agree, the MBL room was very special. I wish I heard the vintage Tannoys...crap.