Steve's THE Show 2016 Pictures

[Steve Williams]

Merrill Audio

I enjoyed this room very much. I knew virtually nothing about the German Physiks speaker. I really liked the sound put out by this speaker. When I entered the room I thought it was a new MBL speaker

 

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Wilson Audio Sasha and Audio Research in Sunny Components Room

 

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Sunny was demoing MQA sound on a Meridien processor and played an Adele song that sounded very good. Lots of ambience. When the track was done he asked me how I liked which I did but then I asked him to play the rebook file of the same song and he refused. He said that they are forbidden from doing such by Meridien . I smiled as I politely left the room

 

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Purist Audio Design and Allnic Audio

 

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Acapella Audio

I must admit that this horn as demoed by Nelli of Audio Federation sounded half decent. It has an MSRP IIRC ~$55K

 

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Mola Mola and YG Acoustics

 

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The new Kii Audio Speakers

 

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Von Schweikert, Constellation and Critical Mass Systems

I thought the speakers sounded very good and I finally got to meet Joe Lavrencik of Critical Mass Systems. I love the racks he makes

 

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Axiss Audio

 

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Zu Audio and Pass Labs

sounded was very decent

 

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Tidal and the famous Lampizator Golden Gate fully balanced

 

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Diesis Audio and Angstrom Audio

 

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MSB Technology

This room for me was truly one of the highlights of THE Show and being able to finally hear the Select DAC ll. I have to admit that the hype was real. They played some piano pieces and I can honestly say that I have never head piano sound so perfect whether it be an analog or digital. This is the real deal. It had both an analog as well as a digital power supply.MSRP however was north of $100K

 

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Raidho, Esoteric, Ansuz

 

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Roger Sanders and his speakers and complete system for $15K is always one of my favorite rooms

 

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Believe High Fidelity who is a member here demoed the Aries Cerat Stereo 60 wpc DHT SET amp, DAC and preamp on Van DerSteen 5a Speakers