Quick Axpona 2017 tour

ani_101

Classic Audio: big massive sound from horn loaded spkrs. Nice details and sparkle from the fostex super tweeter, full bodied effortless sound.

Seneca room, Magicco spkrs. Sounded good.

Salk sound, beautiful veneer and finish. Exotic and acrosia. Tl, 3in acrosia, 9.5satori (song 3 encore)

German physiks, Omni speakers 2 way spkrs. Wide range driver covering 220 to 24khz. And 12" woofer in the big one.  very all around floating sound.

Beolab, nice.... Very atmospheric 3d sound... Huge impact. Went from wide to narrow mode, the image tightened and became centered. Extremely detailed

Mbl speaker, not the huge ones, more Omni speaker. Omni floating sound. 4 way spkrs with woofers in the base no separate sub array.

Vivid audio g1giya. Beatles singing Michelle in mono, sounded a bit garbled, not sure the setup was good or the track? But looks good. Need more space bigger room.

Jolida room, von schweikert endeavour e3 mkii, sounding wonderfully, small room, small floor stander, nice impact and space.... Nice!!! Looks like vifa tweet, hivi lr6 mid and RS woofers!!! Maybe familiar sound. The RS woofers are moving like crazy... About to get slapped!!!

Daedalus poseidon v2 spkr. Interesting dual tweeter configuration. The box seems to have a built in toe in. Hardwood box with dovetail joinery. Looks like all pro drivers. Sounds decent.

Planter speakers for high WAF, outdoor weather proof speakers. Sounds decent. 

Let's try kef now. Blade n blade 2.  Sadly blade not playing, the bookshelves are. Huge room but the big spkr are not playing.... 

This was just the lower level. Lots to cover!!!

D1PP1N

Stay out of the wilson audio room unless you have 30 minutes to kill and want to listen to gargin for 15 of it. 

JasonP

Thanks for posting this Ani! Now I can enjoy the show vicariously

ani_101

Austin accoustic. Wow huge hardwood horns.... Nice big sound.... 

JTR speakers, home theater, big pro sound type speakers inside. Nice, feel the fireworks exploding.

Legacy audio. They have the small bookshelf with the pr Calibre three way with 2 pr!!! The AMT in the Aeris is very directional in the highs, someone walks in front, and you can hear a very distinct shift in sound. Have not noticed such pronounced effect with others.... Very nice sparkle otherwise.

Scaena loudspeakers. Very nice looking and sounding line arrays with massive ribbon

Massive von schweikert with accuton drivers, dual tweeters and ribbon super. ULTRA 11. And there are two dual subs on the back, by the looks of it maybe 12" ultimax and dual seas tweeters dxt and another looks like fountek X2 ribbon.


Teac and elac coax

ani_101

Parts express... Stack of ultiMAXXXXX

jr@mac

Scaena one of my favorites. Those are Raven ribbons. 

ani_101

Nola KO2 speakers 14000$ pair. All those mids and tweeters and no box somehow come together to make noise that is totally not objectionable.

But, look at the price......


Volti Rival, interesting looking and sounding speakers. Fills up the small room nicely with tactile pulses you can feel, enjoyable.


Latest edition to Emerald physiks. Smaller footprint.


Voltage... Beautiful stranger


Thiel


Sonist audio

ani_101

Joseph audio, a real fun and entertaining small floor stander with good dynamics and details. One of my favs of the show.


ATC speakers, there were a few pairs, this is one.


Kii three speakers. This speaker did everything right, but just wasn't engaging enough. I had so much hope and expectation from this cardioid bass with each speaker having 6dacs and 6 amps.the bass was there and tight, but just didn't come across as a big speaker. Guess it still needs a big sub for the low lows.


Salk song speakers with RAAL, Accuton and the white satori. Very nice presentation, 3695$/pr


YG accoustic Sonja 1.2, great sounding driven by Kronos TT



This kef blade was in the smaller room and seemed to sound quite nice.... The CD player is Hegel Mohican comparing with the digital file played though the laptop and the CD, the CD seemed more spacious and open with a wider and more defined soundstage.

squamishdroc

Beautiful veneer on the Salk's!

ani_101

Ryan Speakers driven by the auralic all in one. It is a wifi streaming, DAC integrated amp.


GamuT, 2 way scan bookshelf, ported, nice sound


Horning hybrid system. Not sure what this means, but there are a pair of bass drivers on the back in a strange configuration.


Gershman Accoustic


Natural Sound. Big 15" field coil woofer with 1" CD tweeter, big sound.

ani_101

Another fun, entertaining and engaging speaker. Harbeth, but it kind of looks cheap (and it is relatively) with all those screws on the baffle, gaps between baffle and box, etc.

jr@mac

Incidentally, in 2015 one of the guys working the Scaena booth started yelling at me when I was talking about sourcing Raven ribbons lol. Good times. 

ani_101

jr@mac said:

Incidentally, in 2015 one of the guys working the Scaena booth started yelling at me when I was talking about sourcing Raven ribbons lol. Good times. 

A couple of pointsources are on eBay, but not sure where to get the big one. They are too expensive anyway. Now the relatively reasonably priced BG big ribbons are also not available to diy.

jholtz

Good report and nice camera work!

Jim Salk cabinets are superb and last I knew, his crossovers are the work of Dennis Murphy and Jeff Bagby so it's hard to not like the sound.

It looks like you had a good time. Thanks for posting.

Jim

MartyH

Nice pics and write up, ani!  Glad you enjoyed it.

jhollander

Thanks for posting Ani,  There are some very nice looking designs and some that don't look very good for a commercial design.

kennyk

Big thanks Ani!

S7910

Thanks for posting this Ani.

ani_101

I did enjoy it.... Have a ton of snaps from today. I also missed a few rooms and brushed through some. At one point my phone battery died yesterday so missed a few room. I tried to at least take snaps of a few today which I had liked, but mostly rushed through the rooms. Just reached Minneapolis, will try to post the rest tomorrow.

Today's highlight were the big rooms on 12th floor... Sonus Faber, dynaudio and focal.

4thtry

Thanks for posting, Ani.  Nice collection of speakers that I will never be able to afford!

ani_101

ATOHM speaker. Nice tight impact. Largest one in the group.


Sadurni Acoustic, Miracoli speakers.


Bob Carver Amazing line source. Who can identify the drivers? Sealed column, crossed at 60 to a sub. Making some good noises...

JasonP

Those look like HiVi planars to me

ani_101

TAD speakers, bass and woofer sounded good, could properly judge the coax, I want in a good spot.


Soltanus Acoustic. Electrostatic. The big electro was playing, no woofers response supposedly to 40hz. Smaller size ones had helper woofer/pr.

jr@mac

As regards that one tower with the Vifa XT tweeter and the HiVi LR6 midbass - If I recall correctly, the designer said he crossed at 1900. I didn't pick up on any strain from the tweeter, which has been my experience with said tweeter as well. I think it is more robust than folklore would have us believe. Not a bad sounding speaker by any stretch of the imagination. 

I do plan on attending next year. 

ani_101

Radhio speakers... D1.1


Diapason loudspeakers... Wooden speakers


ProAc speakers, D18/D20R with Naomi electronics. Nice big sounding.

ani_101

Focal speakers....

Focal Aria 926


Focal Sopra No1 


Focal Sopra No2


Focal Sopra No3
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jr@mac

Hmmmm 4 pictures of Focal speakers... I suffered through about four minutes of Focal voicing last year. 

ani_101

Canton Reference 3 K loudspeakers. Nice big open sound.


Avantgarde speakers


Magnepan 3.7i speakers. Liked it. Easy floating sound. Maybe I am biased as Mangepan were one of the first high end (but still reasonably priced) unboxed speakers I had heard before going DIY.


Scansonic speakers


Graham Audio


Sonner Audio - Allegro Unum

jr@mac

I am definitely not going to miss next year come hell or highwater. 

That being said - Graham Audio are BEAUTIFUL. 

ani_101

Panaudio. Cenya signature (bookshelf) and Serenade signature (floor stander)



Voxativ - The zeth


Magico S3

ani_101

Wilson Benesch.... Great looking speakers... Got to listen only for a short while.... Need more. Nothing like a ton of drivers in a tiny space!!!


Destination Audio - huge honking horn speakers, you wouldn't​ want to meet in a dark alley.... 


Spatial Audio


Daedalus Audio, Apollo, solid wood dovetail joined speakers. There one presented earlier too.


Axisvoicebox S, EBS and FLS