Just waiting at my hotel before flight home.
Travelled up w/Barry2016 (thanx for not letting me get lost), stayed w/Ron Resnick (thanx for putting up w/my snoring!) and met Sean/Sencha (hi!).
A few general thoughts. What is it w/all the "smooth jazz" being played in 90% of rooms, esp the horns rooms that seem to have no rock in the repotoire? Ralph of Cessaro didn't have a single rock lp to demo.
I will really have to bring some music next time.
Sounds of the show?
Far and away the best, the Dohmann/Ypsilon/Wilson room. I'm not the most massive Wilson fan, but the new Ypsilon hybrid monoblocks just made the room disappear as the s/stage extended metres in every direction. Dohmann tt a real contender. Standout was the Ypsilon cdp. Simple 16.44 rbcd, not upsampled etc, blew away other digital at the show by some margin.
Worst? The WE vintage horns. After the big build up for many years, I finally heard them, and wish I hadn't.
Big suprise personally? Meeting Sean Casey of Zu Audio fame (my speakers). One of the genuine nice guys in audio. Passionate, driven, and truly humble/down to earth, and we discussed a little personal project he might do for me. THIS i never expected...
More reports to come...