Hi John,
I was also at this event. Sitting second row center, I thought the sound was quite good for a hotel room setup, but not exceptional. The good points were general smoothness, lack of grain, and especially macrodynamics. The areas that were problematic were boomy bass and a glare in the upper midrange, both of which may have been due to acoustics issues, but I can't be sure. I would have loved to have heard what another $4k in bass traps and front wall absorption/diffusion would have done to this roughly $300k system (you didn't mention that they were using close to $100k in Tara Labs The ONE cables to hook all of it up). As setup, the system could entertain, but couldn't sonically disappear.
Steve
I was also at this event. Sitting second row center, I thought the sound was quite good for a hotel room setup, but not exceptional. The good points were general smoothness, lack of grain, and especially macrodynamics. The areas that were problematic were boomy bass and a glare in the upper midrange, both of which may have been due to acoustics issues, but I can't be sure. I would have loved to have heard what another $4k in bass traps and front wall absorption/diffusion would have done to this roughly $300k system (you didn't mention that they were using close to $100k in Tara Labs The ONE cables to hook all of it up). As setup, the system could entertain, but couldn't sonically disappear.
Steve