First stop was Gary's Genesis Dragon Jr. room. Had a nice chat with Jack Roberts of Dagogo who was cleaning his records in the KL record toaster.
Genesis Dragon Jr. are gorgeous, with great fit and finish as one would expect. They definitely hearken back to the large Infinity panels of old. The also have three tweeters rear firing for mid/high dispersion.
I brought my 50c uncleaned thrift copy of Al Di Meola's "Casino" LP. Got to hear it before and after cleaning on the KL LP toaster. Noticed mostly lower mids and highs clearing up a bit.
I really liked the speakers. Sound image perfect size, not artificially expanded, but scaled very well with source. High frequencies and mids fast and subtle. When dynamic impact was in the source, the hit was there without compression. They really made my LP come alive, and could hear source differences in the various LP's played.
Amps were Genesis class D. I haven't really taken a shine to Class D in the past, but the high frequencies were good and these amps didn't have the dusky haze of earlier Class D amps I have heard.
What I really wanted to do when I went to the rest of the show was to drag Sony's 40th Anniversary VFET amp built by Nelson Pass down to the Genesis room and the Melody 101D directly heated triode preamp from the Melody room for the DHT preamp/VFET/Genesis Dragon Jr. combo. Alas, just wishful thinking.
Gary and Carol were wonderful hosts, as usual, and just about everything Gary says is a mini seminar on high end audio.
Genesis Dragon Jr. are gorgeous, with great fit and finish as one would expect. They definitely hearken back to the large Infinity panels of old. The also have three tweeters rear firing for mid/high dispersion.
I brought my 50c uncleaned thrift copy of Al Di Meola's "Casino" LP. Got to hear it before and after cleaning on the KL LP toaster. Noticed mostly lower mids and highs clearing up a bit.
I really liked the speakers. Sound image perfect size, not artificially expanded, but scaled very well with source. High frequencies and mids fast and subtle. When dynamic impact was in the source, the hit was there without compression. They really made my LP come alive, and could hear source differences in the various LP's played.
Amps were Genesis class D. I haven't really taken a shine to Class D in the past, but the high frequencies were good and these amps didn't have the dusky haze of earlier Class D amps I have heard.
What I really wanted to do when I went to the rest of the show was to drag Sony's 40th Anniversary VFET amp built by Nelson Pass down to the Genesis room and the Melody 101D directly heated triode preamp from the Melody room for the DHT preamp/VFET/Genesis Dragon Jr. combo. Alas, just wishful thinking.
Gary and Carol were wonderful hosts, as usual, and just about everything Gary says is a mini seminar on high end audio.