to my ears, the best rooms were (in no particular order): Kroma speakers/Aavik gear; YG Carmel 3/Vinnie Rossi gear; Vivid Giya 4/Mola Mola gear; Gershamn Acoustics/Infigo gear; Margules monitors/Margules gear (unfortunately the ppl that ran that room weren't on par with the gear - i won't go into details). Besides these 5 rooms, there few others with decent sound: Magico/Gryphon new int amp and Qln flagship monitor. Plenty of influencers that interfered with good listening session - too much talking and acting like they owned the rooms.
Who is excited about Capital Audiofest 2023?
I find I am largely ambivalent and not sure if I will go or not. It’s a nice event and I go most every year but looks like mostly more of the same old same old. Are these shows really keeping up with the times? Anything really groundbreaking there to see or hear? I wonder. Might go tomorrow. We will see