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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 

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asvjerry
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@tom2015 & @cd45123 ...omnis’ are like that.....not surprised they punched the highs...but, commenting on my IRL with mine....FWIW....= ’meh’ *L*

calvinj
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I enjoyed the show and meeting fellow audiophiles. I also got a lot of new tracks to listen on suggestion of folks coming into our INFIGO room. Nothing better than listen to music for 3 straight days. 

iasi
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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.

snapsc
665 posts
 

Did anyone make it to the Philharmonic Audio Room...the sign on the door said "speakers you can actually afford to buy"?

iasi
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I did go to the Philharmonic Audio Room on Saturday. The smaller models (Ceramic Mini and the True Mini) were actually very impressive. I wanted to buy the demo units for both models, but those were sold on Friday. For $850 (Ceramic Mini with ceramic driver) and $380 (True Mini) those are probably the best bargains under $1k monitors. Sound was punchy with a very smooth midrange.

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