I can view it Myles. Great pictures and hopefully things will settle down. I forgot for a millisecond that Axpona changed hotels this year when I read your thoughts on the rooms and the slap echo thinking it wasn't a problem last year.
Good questions. Saw organizer Steve Davis at the end of the show and he expected the final attendance numbers to be between 5500-6000. That's up from last year. Halls were always full and saw people of all ages, sexes, ethnicities, orientation, etc.
Do you think the Aida's really need a lot of power? This wasn't the greatest room yet the Aidas seemed the most linear I've heard them at a show. And with a Class-D amp no less and with a front-end that by the end of the show that had only 69 total hours on it which I think accounted for some of the dynamic reticence. Think people were most impressed that these D-class amps weren't producing paper thin images and were in fact, darn transparent. and smooth Interestingly too, ARC isn't jumping on the NCore bandwagon instead using Ecores with a big power supply and lots of filtering.
Yes, they need. It is why I finally gave up on them. The ARC people are using them at the factory with two DS450s class D for bass and two REF250s for medium/treble. The friend who got my pair is using them with ARC REF 610T fitted with KT120's.
Also their impedance is benign with all settings at "0" - once you switch on the back speaker units and move the level settings it becomes a difficult load. A great speaker, but it would oblige me to change my whole system. If it was not my love for tubes I could have tried four or six Devialet's - people who tried it say it is a fantastic match.
Yes, they need. It is why I finally gave up on them. The ARC people are using them at the factory with two DS450s class D for bass and two REF250s for medium/treble. The friend who got my pair is using them with ARC REF 610T fitted with KT120's.
Also their impedance is benign with all settings at "0" - once you switch on the back speaker units and move the level settings it becomes a difficult load. A great speaker, but it would oblige me to change my whole system. If it was not my love for tubes I could have tried four or six Devialet's - people who tried it say it is a fantastic match.
Know it seems like that but had basically gone through all the rooms and this was what I had missed or had left. Actually had some others but ended up not using them.
