shkong78
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| Pacific Audio Fest This system sound very musical. The most notable thing is the cost of amplifiers is modest compared with that of speaker. Raidaho speaker cost 70k$ while Margules power amp and pre amp cost 10k$ and 7k$ only. I got the feeling that Margu... | |
| Pacific Audio Fest This speaker called Linkwitz looks funny but it sounds clear and holographic. | |
| Pacific Audio Fest Estelon showed lot of promise in small room. It sounds clear and dynamic. It was driven by Kreall pre and power amp. it would be worthwhile to try warmer sounding pre amp on it to give mor body on the sound. | |
| Pacific Audio Fest Acora speaker sounds clean and detailed driven by Vac amp and Lampi Horizon Dac. It use Scanspeak drivers including berrilum tweeter. It's inert cabinet using real granite contribute to clean sound. Considering its weight (250 lb for eac... | |
| Pacific Audio Fest This room also give clean and neat sound. My guess is that LTA amplifier works well with Spatial Audio speaker. | |
| Pacific Audio Fest I dropped in Voxative room expecting to listen to their field coil full range speaker. Instead they display Hagen full range unit (96db/W) supplemented by Alberich subwoofer. They also have black box which contains Dac streamer a... | |
| Pacific Audio Fest The sound is coming from smaller speaker which cost 400$ which include internal Dac and amplifier. All you have to do is to connect USB from your laptop. It also has bluetooth connection Home STEREO SYSTEMWITHOUT THE NEED FOR A GIANTV... | |
| Pacific Audio Fest Overall Goebel system driven by CH precison amp wth Wadax source is the most authoritative and balanced sound. But to me Genesis gave more excitement. I will get back to Goebel again on Sunday. | |
| Pacific Audio Fest Asylvox speaker in rather small room still sound organic and textured as excellent planar speaker. It was pleasure to meet Bob. I had used Apogee Duetta Sig from 1990 to 1999. Asylvox seems to sound better than Duetta in texture and r... | |
| Pacific Audio Fest The most intimate and musical sound is from Kroma Julieta speaker (white one) I had planned to attend all three days. But I am too tired after dropping more than 40 rooms today. I will take a day off Saturday and be back to i... | |
| Pacific Audio Fest I had gone through all the rooms today. it was lot of fun. Half of them sounds good. 30% of them so so. 20 of them problematic. The best sounding speakers is Genesis system driven by Merril Audio pre and power amp, source was VPI tu... | |
| Pacific Audio Fest https://www.pacificaudiofest.com/ It is going to be held at DoubleTree By Hilton Seattle Airport from July 29th to 31st. Audiophiles living in Oregon and Idaho are also welcome to be there. It would be good chance to enjoy premier Dacs like Wad... | |
| Vintage vs Modern speakers. To coclude, I enjoy holographic 3 D stage made by Scaena. In addition, Altec A7 basshorn add efforless dynamics to the system. Also I have more headroom to drive main tower of Scaena with smal or medium power tube amp using either 290hz or 5... | |
| Vintage vs Modern speakers. This shows the strength of hybrid Scaena and Altec A7. The soundstage is wide and deep, almost mesmerizing. Using Altec A7 basshorn bass sounds powerful with jump effect. Thomas | |
| Vintage vs Modern speakers. Scaena 3.2 has 12 4 inch midrange drivers which work like full range without any passive crossvoer. 9 ribbon drivers are added with simple capacitor (6k hz cutoff). They use active crossover at 120 hz. Thus two 18 inch subwoofers covers bass wh... |