RMAF 2010... here we go again! Page 6
by Dave and Carol Clark

German Physiks loudspeakers and Laufer Teknik.

Laufer Teknik with Bel Canto. The power cords and speaker cables are Kaplan GS, the power conditioner in the back, a Kaplan Cable Alchemist.

RAAL, Solaja Audio, and Selah Audio.

High Emotion Audio.

Blue Light Audio's Jonathan Tinn and Ron Hedrich from Marigo.

Blue Light Audio's system included Eveolution Acoustics MM Mini Two loudspeakers, $27,000 a pair, and Evolutions speakers cables, interconnects, and power cord. They used a darTZeel CTH-8850 integrated amplifier, $15,000 and the Playback Designs MPS-5 SACD/CD player, $15,000. Also in the room Wave Kinetics component control and loudspeaker interface system and the Audience Adept Response power conditioner. A Music Servers Direct music server was controlled by an iTouch.

Waterfall Audio, Wireworld, Pioneer Elite, Cary Audio, APC, and Wave Designs.

Robert Lee of Acoustic Zen. Also in the room Triode Corporation and Twin Audio Video Inc.

eFicion F-250 loudspeakers, $9250 a pair, Artemis Labs SA-1 turntable $7800 with TA-1 tone arm $3500. eXemplar Audio WMTS XPH-1 phono preamplifier, $5995, Expo blue ray multi-player, $2500, and WMTS-XP-2 preamplifier, $15,000. David Berning Quadrature Z Mono amplifiers, $33,350. The room also featured Stillpoints ESS 34-20-4 SS Isolating rack, $9555 and Ultra Isolators.

PS Audio used Genesis speakers.

Lots of PS Audio products.

Ray of Sound showed the Audio Valve Assistant 50 integrated amplifier, $6499. By Lector the ZOE preamplifier, $3750, VM-200 hybrid amplifier, $4500, and Digi-tube DAC, $2995. Also on display a Blacknote DAC 30, $4495, and a JBL 1400 Array, $11,500.

Wesley Miaw of Neko Audio and Duke LeJeune of AudioKinesis.

AudioKinesis Strato Prism loudspeakers, $4400 a pair along with Neko Audio D100 Mk 2 Dac, $1395. Also in the room Atma-Sphere MP-3 Mk 3.1 linestage, $4850 and S-30 Mk 3.1 amp, $3950.

Synergistic Research.

Legacy Audio and Lumenwhite with Ayon Audio and Synergistic Research.

Ayon Audio, Legacy Audio, Lumenwhite, and Synergistic Research. Always loved this combo and this room did not fail to please.

Transrotor, Accuphase, and Air Tight in the Audio Unlimited room.

Audio Unlimited also featured Critical Mass Systems, TARA Labs, and Running Springs Audio.

Yet another system in the Audio Unlimited room.

Jim White of Aesthetix.

Musical Surroundings had two systems. This system featured a Clearaudio turntable, a Mac Notebook with muisci server and iPad, Aesthetix DAC, preamplifier, and amplifier, Hansen Prince loudspeakers, Running Springs conditioners, and TARA labs cables.

The other system from Musical Surroundings. Clearaudio Innovation turntable, $10,000 along with the Everest stand, Statement record clamp, Outer Limit peripheral calmp, and Goldfinger phono cartridge. There were also cartridges by Benz and tonearms from Graham. From Aesthetix the Romulus DAC/CD Player $6000 - a new release! Also from Aesthetix the IO VC Eclipse phono preamplifier, $18,500, Calisto Eclipse preamp, $19,500, and Atlas mono amplifier, $16,000 a pair. Hansen Emperor loudspeakers, $60,000 a pair. Running Springs AC conditioners, TARA Labs cables, and Finite Elemente racks.

On A Higher Note showed Audio Aero, Brinkmann, Luxman, Shunyata Research, and Vivid loudspeakers.

Nordost Corporation.

Wadia Digital, Qsonix, Dynaudio, Octave, and Ultralink/XLO.

More from Wadia, Qsonix, Dynaudio, Octave, and Ultralink/XLO.

A Roland display.

EMM's display.

Cable Company's display of their line.

No matter what time of day, the front lobby was busy!

T-shirts were available for purchase.

Bel Canto products included in the main system with TAD. the DAC3.5VB $2995, CD2, $2995, VBS1, $1495, REF500M $3990 a pair. Also included the High Current Buffer and VB-REF Power Link. Cabling was by Kimber.

TAD Reference 1 loudspeakers, $70,000 a pair. There was a smaller system in this room that featured Pioneer S-BS21 loudspeakers designed by Andrew Jones. They are available at Best Buy for an incredible $89 a pair, and they sounded amazing! Of course this 'larger' set-up caused us to linger way too long and enjoy the music as well.

Kimber Kable had a large display.

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