I wondered into Music For Pleasure Saturday, thought I'd share some new things I saw.
They now have Atoll which is a reasonably priced line from France. We were playing Tidal high res tracks first through a Naim streaming system, not sure the model, then the same tracks through the DAC of an Atoll CD player with digital inputs into an Atoll integrated, I believe each piece retailed around $2500.00. I was surprised by the Atoll, the soundstage was some smaller but more focused and gave a better sense of melody and pace compared to the Naim.
MFP has Focal's new Sopra speakers on display. Sopra to me sounds like a smoother more refined Focal.
Technically only in for evaluation but I would bet they will stay, speakers from a company called Atohm. They have a little stand mount that retails for around $4500 that has to be heard to believe. It's like a 5" 2-way with a down firing port, it comes with the stands that is designed to work with the port. On display is a larger model at $8k. The sound is very open and effortless.
They have Benz phono cartridges now. I got to hear a Goldwing. It sounded quicker and more neutral than what I had imagined from comments and reviews.
Not so new to the store but maybe not well known they carry Boulder.
Nordust is fairly new there and I was told Questile is coming, or, maybe there, and I forgot to listen to it. Questile is Class D wireless amps, I need to get more info about them.
Has anyone else seen the Devaliet there? It seems many are labeling this brand as "lifestyle", I found it to be really cool and innovative for the most part. An integrated amp with DAC in a chasis about the size of a delivery pizza box. It also runs software specifically matching the amp to your brand of speakers. At this point I believe the models/brands of speakers is somewhere between 200 & 300. I loved the remote which was like a retro volume control on a flat platform. Some time back I got to hear the 400, it did sound good.
If you are familiar with MFP, Eric is back on staff.
