[Captain Humble]

4. Usher Audio/NuForce

A tie. I can’t decide which was better: Usher Audio’s demo, where their BE20 loudspeakers ($16,000/pair) with Usher electronics sounded forceful and majestic; or the Usher Audio/NuForce room, where the smaller Usher CP8571 ($7790/pair), biamped with the NuForce Ref. 9s ($2500/pair), sounded intimate and flirtatious. I would have loved to swap the two rooms’ electronics to hear the difference an amp can make, but no dice. The Usher electronics are unfamiliar to me, but I do know the NuForce amps have speed to test the BE20’s beryllium-oxide midrange driver. Is this the quickest midrange on the planet . . . ?

…Jim Saxon

Those beryllium drivers are amazing.
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[rustydoglim]

I don't think Jimmy Awards are ranked.  Jim Saxon just select a list of outstanding rooms each with its own unique value, performance etc.