Florida Audio Expo 2020: Better the Second Time Around, Part 2
The Volti Audio/Border Patrol/Triode Wire room once again delivered the musical goods, the synergistic system exhibiting great imaging and staging, superb tone and timbre, fine overall transparency, and blinding transient speed. As expected, the horn loaded Volti RIVAL speakers ($19,900) delivered heightened dynamic expressiveness and fine overall cohesion, with, larger-than-life scaling and solid imaging. A BOS contender. Tomasz Stanko's "Domino" and Shirley Horn and company's fine rendition of Buster William's "A Lazy Afternoon" were simply transcendent.
A Border Patrol P20EXD 20W/channel push-pull 300b power amp with dual PSUs ($20,650), Border Patrol DAC SE-I (SPDIF + USB at $1850,) the electronics linked by Triode Wires Obsession power cables ($1399 each), American speaker cables (bi-wired at $1099), and Spirit II interconnects(starting at $399/pair, all hand-made in the U.S.A) sang.