I only got to spend a short time this year at the Capitol Audiofest but I sure got an eyeful and an earful of some of the newest and most interesting things happening in the high end audio industry today. This is just a short set of photos of a few of the things that I saw and that I liked, and which happened to be well-lit for photography.
Mark Waldrop of AIX Records
Headphone Gallery
Audio Federation's Demo Room
United Home Audio keeping analogue tape alive
Isabeau Corriveau plays harp live
Inside LKV's amplifier! Many paralleled gain stages with no feedback!
Black Ice Demo Room
Backert Labs Preamplifier
Records for sale in the Atrium
All the power you'll ever need from Parasound!
Andover Model One Turntable
Todd Garfinkle, audiophile engineer extraordinaire of M-A Records
Sanders Magtech Amplifier
MC Audiotech Forty-Ten Speakers
Tekton speakers!
The strain gauge preamplifier is back! The SoundSmith strain gauge system!
Avant-Garde Acoustics Duo XD speaker system
Sweetvinyl SC-2 Plus Vinyl Noise Removal System
Perfect-8 Cube Speaker
A new audiophile label from China, brought to us by Enmusic
Custom electrostats based on Quad ESL-57 panels with custom amplification in EMIA demo room
Leesburg Listening Room
Ultrasonic Record Cleaning!
HeadAmp
Music Hall Turntables
Legacy Audio's room
If there aren't enough records for you here at the Audiofest, they'll set you right up.
ATR Magnetics offers a wide variety of tapes and tape recording supplies to keep the analogue recording world going.
This is just a very brief look at what was at the show without a lot of detail. If you don't see something that was important to you, it wasn't because I didn't like it, it might just be because it was backlit and I couldn't get a good photo. So feel free to mention anything you liked in the comments.
