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Capital Audio Fest 2019c

November 26, 2019

  Hard not to notice these loudspeakers horns. Saw their big brother at the Munich show two years ago in a room way too small. Still left an impression. Still, I know veru little about [Read More]

Capital Audio Fest 2019b

November 23, 2019

  While open and minimum-baffle’d designs seemed everywhere at this year’s CAF, it was the MC Audiotech Forty-10 loudspeaker ($38k), that caught my attention the most. The company website offers this brief description “A brief [Read More]

Capital

November 8, 2019

Capital Audio Fest 2019a

November 8, 2019

Capital Audio Fest 2019 Coverage

High End 2019c

June 12, 2019

Stein Music Holger Stein of Stein Music showcased his massive TopLine Bob XL and subwoofers ($290,000/pair); the partially horn-loaded, open-baffle (midrange and tweeter) features twenty drivers with a separate column of subwoofers (eight 18’s per [Read More]

Munich High End 2019c

June 4, 2019

Munich High End 2019a

June 3, 2019

Franck Tchang of Acoustic International debuted his new loudspeaker from Advantages Audio Paris, The Cesar ($14,500/pair; optional super tweeter at $1,000 for magnesium and $7,000 for diamond).  I would’ve loved to hear them but The [Read More]

Munich High End 2019b

June 3, 2019

Gobel/Engstrom/Kronos/Wadax   The Gobel room was set up beautifully with their own room treatment acoustic panels.  The enormous Gobel Devine Noblesse ($195,000), three-way (two 12” long-throw woofers, two 8” bending wave midrange, and one AMT [Read More]

High End 2019: The Key Kim Report

June 3, 2019

Once again, the world’s biggest and most important two-channel, high-end audio show was spectacular and incredibly, it’s still growing.   Impressively, this year’s High-End there were 551 exhibitors from 42 countries (+3.8% compared to 2018). In [Read More]

Xavian Perla Esclusiva Loudspeaker

May 7, 2019

  The Mighty… Oak!? For four years, the Xavian Perla monitors were made of walnut. They also used to be named the Xavian Perla, instead of the more regal sounding Perla Esclusiva. “We found oak to [Read More]