CAS 2013

CAS 2013: A Children’s Treasury of Missed Opportunities, or, The End

August 31, 2013 // 0 Comments

Too many exhibitors saw too little of us. Worse yet, we heard too little of them to write anything fair. We could say they were lovely. We could complain that they sounded [...]

CAS 2013: Highend-Electronics presents Voxativ, KR Audio

August 31, 2013 // 1 Comment

Alfred Kainz’s Highend-Electronics rooms are quickly moving to the top of my must-see list. Recent shows have let you count on seeing some very large KR Audio tubes [...]

CAS 2013: Music First Audio

August 30, 2013 // 1 Comment

Where. Do. You. Even. Start? Music First Audio is part of Stevens & Billington. S&B does magnetics. MFA is the brand of the boxed product. MFA California is Warren [...]

CAS 2013: Steven Lester Co. presents Tannoy

August 30, 2013 // 1 Comment

As I’ve mentioned, the California Audio Show is less of an industry event and more of a dealer show. The room run by Steven Lester was a fine example of that, with [...]

CAS 2013: Pass Labs

August 30, 2013 // 6 Comments

Pass Labs was on hand despite their lack of a Bay Area dealer. We listened to vinyl here, spun on a Merrill-Williams REAL turntable, with a Triplanar arm and an Ortofon MC [...]

CAS 2013: Elite Audio presents Linn

August 29, 2013 // 2 Comments

The California Audio Show is less of an industry event and more of a dealer show. This means something interesting in practice. Instead of manufacturers demonstrating their [...]

CAS 2013: Salk Signature Sound

August 29, 2013 // 3 Comments

Forum favorite Jim Salk (of Salk Signature Sound) brought two pairs of speakers to the show, his Soundscape 8 ($7995) and Veracity ST ($4195). The source was the superb [...]

CAS 2013: A Brief Musical Interlude with Musicians of the San Francisco Symphony

August 29, 2013 // 0 Comments

All of the audio shows I’ve attended have been blessed with live music, but I’m sorry to say that I haven’t often taken advantage of this for more than a [...]

CAS 2013: HeadMasters, Round 2

August 28, 2013 // 0 Comments

In your head Our label mate, Mike Mercer, tugged on our coats a bit on Friday to let us know that we were getting off easy. He was going to cover the Headmasters [...]

CAS 2013: Von Schweikert Audio, Raven Audio

August 28, 2013 // 6 Comments

This room featured Von Schweikert Audio‘s new VR-100 XS speakers ($145,000 for the set). These consist of a four piece set: two towers with four 7″ [...]