For me the pearl and surprise was the room of our very own member Duke LeJeune and his AudioKinesis speakers.
Thank you very much Steve! I really appreciate you taking the time to stop by our room a couple of times, and then Ron and Keith and at least one other WBF forum member also stopped by. It's an honor to be among the rooms you guys took the time to visit.
Also don't miss Jonathan Tinn's room with his new speakers that he has shown before and yesterday the sound was off the chart.
OH YEAH!! Incredible system, incredible speakers... "off the chart" sounds right to me. As an ex-transmission line speaker designer (well over sixty different original transmission line designs back during my amateur years), I totally tip my virtual hat to Evolution Acoustics. I have a suspicion about one of the things they did, and it is a brilliantly elegant solution to an imo significant issue that many transmission lines have. The sound would have blown me away had the cabinets been four times the size; given their tiny footprint it was... yeah, off the chart. Wish I could have stayed longer, but I was on a short leash.
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If I may offer a few thoughts on the Tune Audio Animas... imo they did not get a fair chance to show what they can do.
The Animas were on the long wall of a room that was ballpark 18 feet wide by 13 feet deep, with listening chairs along the opposite long wall. Neither the wall behind the Animas nor the wall just behind the listeners' ears had any absorption or diffusion, or at least none that I remember (there may have been a padded headboard-on-the-wall where the bed had been). As a result there was a strong very early reflection off the wall right behind the listeners' ears, degrading the imaging and depth (which were imo arguably excellent given that handicap) and emphasized the upper part of the spectrum. The front-and-back-wall situation may not have been too far removed from "slap-echo". Imo given a deeper room and/or appropriate room treatment, they would have sounded much more relaxing. Their dynamics were superb.
In contrast the Ocean Way room (same size, same long-wall setup) had both the front and rear walls aggressively treated by an extremely experienced professional, Allen Sides. This was imo an excellent sounding room, the presentation was extremely vivid and with natural timbre (especially from the big ones) without being the slightest bit fatiguing. I would not be surprised if the Animas were quite capable of this as well, while taking advantage of the benefits of low-powered, zero-global-feedback specialty tube amps.
Regarding the low end of the Animas, is there any reason not to augment it with subs?