Who remembers California Audio Labs?


CAL certainly made a big splash in the early days of digital. I owned an Icon for a number of years and enjoyed it so much that when Power Boss was announced I had my Icon upgraded to a Power Boss. And then California Audio Labs was bought out and disappeared. Not overnight but from the perspective of time, it seems so. Anyone else wonder what could have been the company’s future had their trajectory followed a different path? 

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I had the CAL Delta and Alpha combo. Very warm and musical, but resolution wasn’t its strength. I still have them, but I have to say that streaming through my Bluesound Node II is more resolving.
 

what sank CAL from memory was their movement into video. They had a tremendous universal player that was also extremely fragile. I bought two used that had the laser system broken in shipping, despite decent and original packaging both times.