Montreal Audio Sound 2018

James Tanner · « **on:** 22 Mar 2018, 11:49 pm »

HI Folks,

Just setting up for this years Montreal Audio Show.

Will post pics and comments as we go.

james

James Tanner · « **Reply #1 on:** 23 Mar 2018, 12:19 am »

ngamountains · « **Reply #2 on:** 23 Mar 2018, 12:21 am »

Nice, James! For demo you are running the Model Ts active, powered by the 21B3s? I look forward to (hopefully) hearing the same setup at AXPONA in a few weeks.

James Tanner · « **Reply #3 on:** 23 Mar 2018, 12:36 am »

Quote from: ngamountains on 23 Mar 2018, 12:21 am

Nice, James! For demo you are running the Model Ts active, powered by the 21B3s? I look forward to (hopefully) hearing the same setup at AXPONA in a few weeks.

Yes Model T Actives with 21B;s.

james

PierreB · « **Reply #4 on:** 23 Mar 2018, 12:48 am »

Hi M.Tanner,
See you tomorrow.

Pierre.

Pundamilia · « **Reply #5 on:** 23 Mar 2018, 02:58 am »

Et moi aussi!

TJ-Sully · « **Reply #6 on:** 24 Mar 2018, 11:51 pm »

Hey JT - are those subwoofers new to the line up? Any info on them?
Have fun in montreal!

TJ

alexone · « **Reply #7 on:** 25 Mar 2018, 03:29 am »

...hey, Pierre and Pundamilia...you both are lucky guys. enjoy the show

al.

James Tanner · « **Reply #8 on:** 25 Mar 2018, 11:26 am »

Eldon Doucet reviewed Montréal Salon Audio / Audio Fest

Just got back from seeing the show yesterday. The quality of sound is just not what is used to be there. I haven't been for the last 5 years as I have been going to the Taves show in Toronto. This show is better for the pure music and stereo lover though.

What I found in a lot of rooms was noise. People and exhibitors talking while the rest of us are trying to listen! That's the purpose of attending the show - listening to all the different equipment. If you're reading this, please, try to take the taking outside while music is playing on your equipment.

Best room in the show, in my opinion, was Bryston. Great sound.

I also really like the Muraudio speakers.

James Tanner · « **Reply #9 on:** 25 Mar 2018, 11:28 am »

PierreB · « **Reply #10 on:** 25 Mar 2018, 12:07 pm »

Yes it was a great room.
I ask M.Tanner to play the song Smooth Operator from Sade and it was superbe. Than he plays a song from Stevie Ray Vaughan and crank the volume, it was marvelous. The electric guitar was there in front of me.
No compression, no distortion, just music.
Thanks Bryston.

TJ-Sully · « **Reply #11 on:** 25 Mar 2018, 04:36 pm »

Hi JT

Couple of quick questions:

Curious whether you're running subwoofers at the Montreal Audio show?
Also, care to share your top-10 tracks played at the show...?

Cheers, TJ

James Tanner · « **Reply #12 on:** 25 Mar 2018, 06:42 pm »

Quote from: TJ-Sully on 25 Mar 2018, 04:36 pm

Hi JT

Couple of quick questions:

Curious whether you're running subwoofers at the Montreal Audio show?
Also, care to share your top-10 tracks played at the show...?

Cheers, TJ

Hi

No subs.

James Tanner · « **Reply #13 on:** 26 Mar 2018, 10:56 am »

Montreal Audio Fest 2018

James

Best sound hands down!

Well done!

Christo

James Tanner · « **Reply #14 on:** 27 Mar 2018, 11:34 am »

MEMO: To All Bryston Customers
SUBJECT: Montreal Audio Fest 2018 – Bryston Demo

March, 2018

Hi Folks,

Great trip to Montreal yesterday for the Montréal Salon Audio / Audio Fest.

Especially the multiple visits and listening sessions in the Bryston room - thanks to those guys for being great hosts!

Bryston room sounded excellent - active system here with 1200w per channel!

Evan McCosham

CanadianMaestro · « **Reply #15 on:** 27 Mar 2018, 01:01 pm »

^ 1200W. Likely will never use anywhere near that much power for speakers.

James Tanner · « **Reply #16 on:** 27 Mar 2018, 01:44 pm »

MEMO: To All Bryston Customers
SUBJECT: Montreal Audio Fest 2018 – Bryston Demo - Soundstage

March, 2018

Home-theater standards change so rapidly that it’s hard to keep up. I still have five speakers in my HT system at home, despite my receiver accommodating 7.1 channels. Now there’s what -- 12.2 as a nominal standard?

Just to be sure it doesn’t fall too far behind, Bryston’s new SP4 processor accommodates 16 discrete channels and an alphabet soup of protocol compatibilities. Despite Bryston’s significant accomplishments in the amplification, signal processing, and digital realms, the company realized that trying to keep up with HT protocols is a bit of a sucker’s game, so it farmed out part of the development of the SP4 to France’s Immersive Audio Technologies, a French company that specializes in such matters, so it can keep right up to date.

As a result, The SP4 features a dizzying array of configuration, EQ, and calibration settings -- this unit is so flexible that I honestly gave up trying to follow the full technical description.

If you want a future-proof home theater processor that will give you total control of your audio environment, the SP4 deserves a look.

Specifically designed to power Bryston’s active speakers, the new 24B3, is jammed with six channels of power -- four of those channels are rated at 75W into 8 ohms, and the other two are 300W into 8 ohms. This one amplifier can nicely juice up a pair of Bryston’s Model T Actives, with its compact size helping to make for a nice, clean setup. (ED: or can be used with the Middle T or Mini T Active speakers)

But let’s say you like to listen loud, and you don’t mind another box or more size. Then you’ll probably want to move up to the 21B3. You get three channels of amplification (so you’ll need two for stereo) that are much beefier than those in the 24B3 -- two channels at 300W into 8 ohms, and the remaining channel cranks out a whopping 600W into 8 ohms.

I’ve listened to the Bryston Model T Active speakers a number of times now, and some of those instances were at fairly high SPLs.

With its multiple channels of amplification and a digital crossover, there’s a sense of dynamic immediacy that’s most impressive.

More power into these speakers should be even better.

Montreal Audio Fest 2018 - Montreal, Canada

Jason Thorpe

James Tanner · « **Reply #17 on:** 27 Mar 2018, 09:35 pm »

MEMO: To All Bryston Customers
SUBJECT: Montreal Audio Fest 2018 – Bryston Demo

March, 2018

I was in Montreal this weekend and hit the show on Saturday

The room I liked the most was the Bryston room.

Walked in and heard a version of "Wayfairing Stranger" by some country dude that was fantastic. Then a track by the Fairfield Four (?) again something I want to get and finally Lou's "Walk on the Wild Side".

I checked the guy who was doing the DJ thing and it was JT. He has good taste in music and knows a bit about audio gear I guess.

Those Model T's sounded very nice and compete with all the other mega buck speakers I would say.

J Fraser

alexone · « **Reply #18 on:** 28 Mar 2018, 01:05 pm »

James,

the 24B is basically a combination of a 875 + 4B amp, i guess?!?

al.

James Tanner · « **Reply #19 on:** 28 Mar 2018, 02:57 pm »

Quote from: alexone on 28 Mar 2018, 01:05 pm

James,

the 24B is basically a combination of a 875 + 4B amp, i guess?!?

al.

Its a modified 875 with new Cubed input stage.

james