The YG's in the GTT room sounded superb, but the clear winner to me (as in best) was Audio Note and their open reel source of Ella Fitzgerald. Not their most expensive system but the most natural and delightful tone I heard - a stunning testament to well-thought through design. Wilson Benesch (Aaudio Imports) were also terrific and TIDAL (The Voice That Is) made me feel very optimistic about the future of the "hobby" (addiction?).
"Best In Show" is positive and always fun to read, but the opposite must also hold true. So when something stands out as bad as I heard (and remained with me several weeks afterwards) one should not be fearful to speak up.
Yes, agreed, Border Patrol had a seriously nice set-up. All told, almost everything I heard was good to great and the bang-for-the-buck barometer is clearly going in favor of the consumer. It was a really fun show, so why is it that one (possibly two) duff experience is the one that lingers?
"Best In Show" is positive and always fun to read, but the opposite must also hold true. So when something stands out as bad as I heard (and remained with me several weeks afterwards) one should not be fearful to speak up.
Yes, agreed, Border Patrol had a seriously nice set-up. All told, almost everything I heard was good to great and the bang-for-the-buck barometer is clearly going in favor of the consumer. It was a really fun show, so why is it that one (possibly two) duff experience is the one that lingers?