RMAF 2018 A.A. Show Report & Pictures

[Antonmb]

Originally Posted by 2fastdriving

Buck... You've done a fantastic job of doing this show report! I really appreciate your efforts to get everyone together and make the AA presence felt at RMAF 2018.

What he said... thanks Buck for a great job organizing our little group, and all the excellent pictures and commentary.

[Antonmb]

Originally Posted by audioguy3107

Triangle Art room, this room probably had the highest "audio jewelry" score for the weekend, the turntables alone are seriously blinged out. Hard to comment on sound here since the loudspeakers were making a strange electronic popping noise every 3 seconds or so. They probably should have ironed that out before playing music here. It annoyed the crap out of me (it wasn't the record BTW).

They must have solved this at some point, because we thought this room sounded very good, with no popping noise. In fact we went back a second time, and thought it was one of the best mid-tier rooms.

[audioguy3107]

Originally Posted by Ricjor1

Thanks so much for posting the great pictures. I went a couple of years ago and based on the pictures I should have attended this year. My favorite system when I attended had Von Schweikert's VR-55 speakers. Based on Marc's comments, the Von Schweikert's still sound good.

Yeah, the Von Schweikert room was amazing but I guess you have to keep the price in context. Here's a photo of the price sheet for the room, notice some of the things are "each" and the cable (which there were a metric ton of) prices aren't listed.....I mean.......damn. A $61,000 stand.

[audioguy3107]

Here's a couple more.....

Audio Solutions with Vitus. I didn't like this room very much, they were a decent value but the soundstage was incredibly "short".....the tweeters on these are very very low on the cabinet (more so than you could tell in the photo) and you could tell.

[audioguy3107]

Avantgarde room was OK, they sounded pretty good but still had that horn cupped hand sound to my ears on Hotel California live.

[audioguy3107]

YG Acoustics and Auralic. None of us thought this sounded very good, at all. Especially considering these are $42,500 speakers. If you were just off center, you couldn't even hear the other speaker, it was like it was disconnected. Very strange.

[audioguy3107]

Here's a portrait photo of Marc's new turntable he's planning on buying! Ha! You go Marc. The Clearaudio Innovation.

[2fastdriving]

Originally Posted by audioguy3107

Here's a portrait photo of Marc's new turntable he's planning on buying! Ha! You go Marc. The Clearaudio Innovation.

We'll see. On the YG's... There had to be something wrong with the system or at least the track we heard?

[keef]

Thanks for all the pics and observations! Gets me pumped for the Cap Audio Fest in a couple of weeks!

[SL1800]

The VAC integrated was crazy!!