Silver Spring, MD
CAF 2013
CAF 2013
CAF 2013
CAF 2013
CAF 2013
CAF 2013: International Phonograph, United Home Audio, Mapleshade
If you’re into analog, you really ought to be into tape. It’s not that analog tape machines (necessarily) sound better than turntables, but rather that the tapes you can get these days sound so much better than […]
CAF 2013
CAF 2013: SVS
Gary Yacoubian and the crew from SVS put on something a little different from the crowd at CAF. And at 9am on Sunday morning (an hour before the show opened), with yours truly toting an […]
CAF 2013
CAF 2013: Deja Vu
Much like the metal that coats Wolverine’s skeleton, the bits on display in the Deja Vu Audio room are all made from unobtainium. It’s not clear where they get these ancient transformers and whatnots, but […]
CAF 2013
CAF 2013: The Voice That Is Presents TIDAL Audio
When I am King, things will be different. Among the “different things” will be my palace, where I will have several magnificent listening rooms, decked out for my aural pleasures. They will be huge and […]
CAF 2013
CAF 2013: The Voice That Is presents TIDAL Audio, Audio Power Labs
It’s nice to see my TIDAL Audio’s Contriva Diacera SE loudspeakers ($64,190 with polished veneer) whenever possible! So nice of Doug White of The Voice That Is to bring them down for us to drool on. His […]
CAF 2013
CAF 2013: LKV Research
Bill Hutchins of LKV Research was showing off his new baby, the Phono 2-SB ($2,500). This Swiss Army knife phonostage has pretty much everything you could want, including both balanced (40/50/59dB) and unbalanced inputs (34/44/53dB). […]
CAF 2013
CAF 2013
CAF 2013: Two from Triode Wire Labs, Charles Rollo Audio, GT Audio Works, Kanso Furniture (new pics)
Splitting two rooms, Triode Wire Labs, Charles Rollo Audio (formerly Swap Meet Audio), and GT Audio Works were clearly having a fine time of it. Triode Wire Labs was showing off his brand new “American Speaker Cable” […]
CAF 2013
CAF 2013: Bob’s Devices
Bob Sattin of Bob’s Devices has this great big white lab coat he wears around audio shows. It’s sorta funny, sorta serious, but the idea is that Bob is the guy that’s gonna fix your […]
CAF 2013
CAF 2013: AIX, Cuneiform, Cash for Music, Clarion, Ultrasonic, Fernwood
On the fourth floor, in the Magnolia Ballroom, a sort of marketplace in the round was set up, and there was lots of interesting things to shop and browse. Stereodesk had three tables in there, […]
CAF 2013
CAF 2013
CAF 2013: Surreal Sound and Luminous Audio (udpated!)
Surreal Sound‘s Ralph Hellmer was on showing off his Fifth Row loudspeakers (shown “au naturel” in a Baltic Birch), with their new Heil tweeter (first order, brought in at 3kHz). In case you’ve not heard […]
CAF 2013
CAF 2013: Woo Audio
Spent some time hanging out with my pal Simon from Woo Audio, lamenting about how hard it is to set up a demo room at an audio show. All that fussing with positioning, room nodes, […]
CAF 2013
CAF 2013: Stereodesk (Updated!)
Carol Taylor from Stereodesk was showing of the Albedo HL 2.2 ($6,600/pair) ceramic-driver loudspeakers, paired with electronics from Crayon and Musica Pristina. Kaplan Cables used throughout. The Crayon gear sat on a magnificent reclaimed-wood table. […]
CAF 2013
CAF 2013
CAF 2013: Kevin Kemp Audio with Soundfield Audio (updated!)
AJ was displaying his brand-new VSF-T1 ($3,500/pr), with open-baffle/opposing dual 12″ subs with a 300wpc integrated plate amp to drive them. Up top are dual 8″ (60hz-1kHz), a planar magnetic horn (1kHz-15kHz), which hands off […]
CAF 2013
CAF 2013: Legacy Audio (updated)
Bill Dudleston of Legacy Audio was showing the new Aeris ($17,750) loudspeakers on one end, and on the opposite, the Whisper XD ($21,500) and Signature SE ($6,450). All of these speakers sport the new AMT […]