AXPONA 2012: Legacy Audio, Ayon, Coda
Legacy Audio makes some really big speakers and the Whisper XD is the biggest of them all. Prices range between $20-23k based on finish and options. The Focus SE (on the [...]
AXPONA 2012
Jacksonville, FL
AXPONA 2012: JIB, Mistral, Napa
JIB-Germany, a cable company, was showing some tasty bits to showcase their cables. Mistral DT-307S loudspeakers with a Napa Acoustics NA-208A integrated amplifier, and tunes [...]
AXPONA 2012: Aerial, ARC, Krell, Transparent
I’ve heard the $10k Aerial 7t loudspeakers at a local dealer, so I kinda knew what I was getting in for here in Audible Illusions’ second room (the other was that [...]
AXPONA 2012: Wood Artistry, Linkwitz, Pass, MSB
The Linkwitz Orion 4 loudspeakers, assembled by the team over at Wood Artistry, is a tour-de-force. In this setup, there are three giant amps from Pass Labs. An $8250 [...]
AXPONA 2012: mbl
$260k will buy you a lot of things. A house, perhaps. In some places, it’ll buy you a house — and a boat and a pair of cars. What it’ll buy at mbl America [...]
AXPONA 2012: King Sound and Power Modules
If you attended AXPONA this year, you may be party to a conspiracy to commit audio murder. Didn’t even notice the beautiful King Sound ESL speakers, with their hefty [...]
AXPONA 2012: Tyler, Rogue and Silnote
I like Tyler Acoustics. Ty has been selling speakers since 1998 and will be the nicest guy you meet at any show. He’s totally down to earth, just loves what he does, [...]
AXPONA 2012: M Audio
M Audio, aka, Maker Audio, was showing off their $25k Model 10 speaker. Interestingly, prices are much higher on their website, so for whatever it’s worth, I’m [...]
AXPONA 2012: Scaena, Conrad-Johnson, dCS, Veloce, Nordost
Scaena is Latin for “line source speakers with monster subwoofers”. Okay, I made that up. But that’s what I think of whenever I see Scaena hit the showroom [...]
AXPONA 2012: Martin Logan, Krell, Transparent, The Tape Project
The Martin Logan demo at AXPONA was new for me on several fronts. I’d never heard Martin Logan’s CLX panels before. I’d never heard 7 subwoofers in a single [...]