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“L

ook at t he beaut if u l

tubes,”said

a visitor as

he walked

into the room, calling his

friend over to a table display,

completely oblivious to the

music being played. There

it is. I think I’ve cracked the

mystery of why there are

so few female audiophiles.

While men and women may

equally love listening to

music, men have that unique

tendency to also want to

read about, to talk about and

to argue about…the gear.

This article is about them and the gear, and most impor-

tantly about the sound and the music they listened to and

their reactions to it. Warning: you will read about personal

opinions. If you don’t like personal opinions and prefer a

detailed account of what was played and displayed, you might

consider putting this magazine down and delving into the

complete list of exhibitors and components available in the

ofﬁcial brochure.

You may ﬁnd praise in the next paragraphs, and occasion-

ally harsh comments. However, this is not a listening test, by

any means, and we won’t blame anything unless we mean it

speciﬁcally for the purpose of improvement.

“You must listen to these speakers,” said Michael and

Jimmy, as soon as we met in the lobby. “They’re shaped like

huge horns, and the sound is so natural and smooth,” they

added, pointing to the name of the Edgar-

horn Titan II speakers on the

brochure. Off we went.

Along the way we stopped

by the Totem Acoustics home

theatre demonstration. Neatly

placed on the walls, front

and back, the new, discreetly

styled, 3.5" deep Tribe 1 and

2 speakers gave an absolutely

spectacular performance of

Hero, with the dramatic contri-

bution of the Storm subwoofer.

Played on the Arcam DV 78

player with Arcam’s AVR, the

sound was riveting and carried

tons of impact

while outlining

the ﬁnest details.

I did return

to that room

more than once during the next days,

with different visitors, and their

reaction was always the same:

they remained speechless. That

such quality (and quantity!)

could issue from such diminutive

speakers was amazing.

We were no less impressed

by the Simaudio room, where

we listened to an excerpt from

Holst’s The Planets, played on

the Andromeda CD player and

power supply, the P-8 controller

and preampliﬁer, the W-8 power

ampliﬁer and the large Dynaudio

Conﬁdence C-4 speakers. Before

leaving the large room, Michael and Jimmy wanted to have

their picture taken in front of the huge Simaudio monobloc

power amp on display.

(Can you ever, ever imagine a female audiophile asking for

a souvenir shot such as this?)

In the small Fidelio room, everything was quiet and reﬁned.

The ﬁrst track of Nemesis, their latest album of percussion, was

playing on an Esoteric deck through a Nagra PL-P preamp and

a pair of pyramid-shaped Nagra PMA power amps, into Verity

Audio’s shiny black Parsifal speak-

ers. “I feel good,” said Michael, as

we were going out into the hallway

“Just a few minutes in that room

and I feel so relaxed.”

Soon after, Jimmy really wanted

us to listen to the Revelation speak-

ers, and as we walked in we noticed

the energetic sound of the K&D

Sessions handled with authority

by the Revelation Mistral S-6

speakers (at right), helped by a pair

of Odyssey Stratos power amps, a

DSC VAC Auricle preamp, and a

Naim CDX player. A request to

play Un Aeroplano a Vela, a song

by Gianmaria Testa from his CD

Montgolﬁères, demonstrated con-

vincingly the imaging capabilities

of that system.

Just as fascinating was the sound

of a ClearAudio turntable, playing

Take Five, linked to a Korato Anni-

versary Series

R e f e r e n c e

Valve preamp,

two Korato

tube monob-

Touring the Old/New Show

by Albert Simon

At top: Albert at work in the Blue-

note room. At left: the Opera SP

speakers. At right: the two-part

Revelation speaker.

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