Well AXPONA 2023 is in the can.
Don had his Maggies sounding good.
I found a nice product from Butcher Block Acoustics for those of us who have turntables sold without dust covers. It's a wood isolation board with feet, it has a groove cut around the top where a dust cover fits. It's sold as a package including dust cover for less than I've seen some of the dust covers go for.
A couple of the big rooms I like was Karan with Wynn Audio, Piego speakers with BAT, VAC with Acora speakers and the Bending Wave room with ARC and Goebel speakers.
Dr. Vinyl had a good room with Socorro Turntable/Margari electronics with Usher speakers. Bel Canto E1X room sounded very good. I was impressed with an Unison Research integrated with 845 tubes driving Opera speakers. Aurender introduced the AP20 which was driving a set of Wilson, the combo sounded great, the AP20 is a all-in-one 200x2 system. The Infigo room sounded great. I enjoyed the MSB electronics with Magico M2.
Clairisys speakers were in 2 rooms, one with Constellation and the other with Hegel. You might want to give Clairisys a look if you are an Apogee fan. I liked their sound, sort of bottom up with good timbre.
Stereo Haven had a room showing a Jadis amp, I think Renault speakers, of course he is spinning vinyl. The room had a ribbon showing "Best of Show". Stereo Haven is in Edwardsville.
The guys at Music For Pleasure had a room but it was full when we walked by and I never got back that way. The sign showed Atoll and they were probably using Adam speakers.
I did get into the headphone area for a bit, I found I am now a big Dan Clark fan. The electrostats sounded great and I like his dynamic closed back set very well.
This is just scratching the surface of the show. a lot of fun if you like the audio.
It would be cool to get a GAS group together one year to go.
