Stereo Haven. Leben 600 integrated amplifier, $6495, Devore Fidelity Orangutan 0/93, $8400, Leben 30 phono stage, $2695, Audiotorium 23 Hommage T2 stepup, $4995, Box Furniture Co 4 shelf rack, $3250, Auditorium A23 interconnects and speaker cables, Riviera power cords.
Well Tempered Labs Amadeus 254GT turntable, $8250, Dynavector 17DX cardridge, $2250.
Beautiful DeVore Fidelity Orangutan O/93 loudspeakers. These always sound so great!
Audioengine.
Triangle Art, Angel City Audio.
Angel City Audio Seraphim loudspeakers. Very nice sounding!
Triangle Art Maestro turntable.
Innuos, Nagra, Transparent Audio, Viocustic, YG Acoustics.
Dave and I recently received the Fern & Roby Montrose turntable for review, so we were very interested to see Christopher Hildebrand at AXPONA. Pictured here is the Fern & Roby Tredegar turntable, a 65 pound cast iron plinth and 35 pound brass platter ensures low resonance and and vibration dampening. The cartridge is a Soundsmith MIMC. This turntable is one that is truly a pleasure to look at as well as listen to. We were treated to many stellar recordings, including Kraftwerk's The Man Machine. Usually at shows I get tired of hearing the same tracks over and over, but even Dire Straits' "Sultans of Swing" sounded phenomenal on this table.
Fern & Roby's outstanding The Ravens loudspeakers, high efficiency single driver design. They really fill the room with sound and evoke the image of speakers from long ago. Classic! In the background, the Linear Tube Audio ZOTL 40 power amplifier.
Also in the room the Linear Tube Audio microZOTL MZ3 preamplifier, and Black Cat Cables. All combined, it was easy to sit in this room and be carried away by the music. Very enjoyable.
Linear Tube Audio also showed with Spatial Audio Labs and AntiCables.
LTA, Spatial, and AntiCables.
Volti Audio Rival loudspeakers start at $9400/pr, the show pair is $16,200. Triode Wire Labs: The Obsession NCF power cables $1399 each, American Speaker Cables, $1099 per set, Spirit II interconnects, $399/pr, Spirit 75 interconnects, starting at $299 each. Border Patrol P20 EXS power amplifier, Control Unit EXD preamplifier, DAC SE.
Starting with the sixth floor at the Schaumberg Renaissance Hotel there is an atrium, it feels less claustrophobic than the upper floors.
Bayz Audio, CH Precision.
Bayz Audio, a quite different design.
Martin Logan, Benchmark Media Systems.
Tri-Art Audio, you had to see it to believe it.
Tri-Art Audio, stands and components made from bamboo and other natural products.
Tri-Art Audio turntable.
Magnepan Little Ribbon Speaker (LRS), $650/pr.
ModWright Instruments Ambrose Ai 300B integrated amplifier, $8495, PH 9.0 phono stage, $2900, Pioneer UHD LX-500 tube modification, $1500. Spatial Audio Lab X3 loudspeakers, $7500. Anticables speaker wire, interconnects, and power cords.
Pure Fidelity Harmony turntable with Maestro power supply, $5295. Acoustic Signature TA-2000 tonearm, $2995. Kiseki Purpleheart cartridge, $3195.
Needle Doctor. Clearaudio Performance DC wood with Tracer tonearm and Hana cartridge. Musical Surroundings Nova III phonostage. Rogue Audio Cronus Magnum III integrated amplifier. Dali Oberon loudspeakers. AudioQuest PowerQuest 3 power conditioner. Cabling by AudioQuest.
Rogue Audio Cronus integrated amplifier.