AXPONA 2024 Ron Reporting

[cjfrbw]

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Looks beefier than the good old Apogee Stage, but might be enough for a lot of listening rooms. If my panels go south, I'll get a pair of these.

 

[Pokey77]

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Looks beefier than the good old Apogee Stage, but might be enough for a lot of listening rooms.View attachment 128905

Looks big until you notice the Auditorium off in the background.

 

[AudioLibertarian]

Lou Reed is great choice for a Brooklyn based company. Whimsy

Lou Reed was from Long Island

 

[Dierkx1]

Lou Reed was from Long Island

Born in Brooklyn

 

[hopkins]

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I have a hard time reconciling the sound I hear from this video with some of the very positive comments about this room from some forum members here. How did the system sound to you in the room?

 

[Kingsrule]

The best of the youtube reports. What an effort. Thank you Ron

 

[2ndLiner]

I have a hard time reconciling the sound I hear from this video with some of the very positive comments about this room from some forum members here. How did the system sound to you in the room?

One of the systems I would take in a heartbeat. Great tonality, texture, transparency, detail but most of all emotionally engrossing, the feeling of the vocalist and players superbly delivered! I was in the sweet spot 3rd row. I believe Ron was sweet spot 2nd row. Regarding videos, sometimes they give an accurate sense and sometimes not so much

 

[2ndLiner]

One of the systems I would take in a heartbeat. Great tonality, texture, transparency, detail but most of all emotionally engrossing, the feeling of the vocalist and players superbly delivered! I was in the sweet spot 3rd row. I believe Ron was sweet spot 2nd row. Regarding videos, sometimes they give an accurate sense and sometimes not so much

BTW, I enjoy the sound on videos you post. I know you are having a great experience when you sit down for a listen. Semi-insightful comment alert: While a great system can sometimes sound mediocre on a video a mediocre system will never sound great on one

 

[High Water Sound]

One of the best rooms in terms of how mature and organic the music (not the sound of the system) there sounded.... I visited that room few times and spent quite a long time just to give my ears relief and refresh my senses from lot of hi-fi contenders" . That room along with (big surprise) John Devore's new Bronze model just were were oasis of sheer musicality. Jeffrey Catalano is NYC's musical scene's unheralded treasure!

Thank you so much Ron for your graciousness and sensitivity towards High Water Sound. I truly appreciate from the bottom of my heart.

 

[AudioLibertarian]

Thank you so much Ron for your graciousness and sensitivity towards High Water Sound. I truly appreciate from the bottom of my heart.

You are very welcome Jeffrey, my name is Ellie thou

 

[2ndLiner]

The room with JMF pre & amp, Ideon DAC, reclocker, and streamer, Steinheim speakers was excellent!

 

[Alrainbow]

This is one of the stand out rooms to me.
The person I met inside was very friendly and really explained the products
he loves Lampi as I do and made what I thought was very interesting comments on the past and present dacs sounds
in this room is the new posiden excuse if I have misspelled
it was a Complete setup for a fantastic sound
no boom and had a wonderful stage and sound just
Made you feel want to stay there.
of course there was a mob awaiting to get in
I went back many times.
I thank him for kindness while there.

 

[trekpilot]

This is one of the stand out rooms to me.
The person I met inside was very friendly and really explained the products
he loves Lampi as I do and made what I thought was very interesting comments on the past and present dacs sounds
in this room is the new posiden excuse if I have misspelled
it was a Complete setup for a fantastic sound
no boom and had a wonderful stage and sound just
Made you feel want to stay there.
of course there was a mob awaiting to get in
I went back many times.
I thank him for kindness while there.

This room was one of my favorites also.

 

[2ndLiner]

This room was one of my favorites also.

I emphatically agree!

 

[Mcsnare]

The colossal ESD horn system with this fancy Chinese lacquer color is US$4 million. In normal finish it's US$1.2 million, which is really very reasonable for all of these components!

I thought this monster sounded fantastic! I would substitute Viva Aurora Monos for all of the solid-state amplification, and I would substitute analog for streaming.

Looking at the picture of all the wiring, I wonder how much a customer would spend on cable lifters.

 

[Tuckia]

The room with JMF pre & amp, Ideon DAC, reclocker, and streamer, Steinheim speakers was excellent!

Michael, I liked this room as well, but unfortunately was way too small. The sound just wanted to expand but couldn’t in the near field set up. I noted that they were using the JMF power conditioner. From my perspective most rooms suffered from a same dryness in the sound which I suspect was attributable to the power grid. However, a few did not and this room was one of them. Overall, this was SS gear I could live with along with the Soulution gear in the Axiss room.

 

[2ndLiner]

This room was another standout for me. An abundance of tonal/textural info and handled different musical styles with ease...

 

[Gregadd]

This room was another standout for me. An abundance of tonal/textural info and handled different musical styles with ease...View attachment 128950

Poor Lightning'. It needs some backlighting to eliminate those shadows.

 

[2ndLiner]

Poor Lightning'. It needs some backlighting to eliminate those shadows.

It's my style, Gregadd, I like to add some mystery

 

[mxk116]

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Looks beefier than the good old Apogee Stage, but might be enough for a lot of listening rooms. If my panels go south, I'll get a pair of these.

Sunday afternoon I had just walked into the big Clarisys/Convergent Audio Technologies room (Nirvana C?), there were two guys on their hands and knees switching cables on some amps. When the music started again it filled the room. The sound was transparent and had scale and dynamics that were exceptional. The tonal density was wonderful from bottom to top. This was one of the rooms I experienced at the AXPONA 2024 that spoke to me "come sit down, relax and enjoy."

I went to the room to hear the Clarisys Auditorium Plus (I had previously not seen or heard it in person). If the accent lights on the floor were not spotlighting the diminutive Piccolo I could have been fooled into thinking this might be the Auditorium Plus looming over it. I still haven't heard that big one first hand but boy-oh-boy that little one is a winner no matter how you slice it; bravo!