What I Found at Florida Audio Expo! - FLAX Audiophile Show Coverage 2023!
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- I went to the Florida Audio Expo to cover high-end audiophile speakers, amplifiers, integrated amplifiers, pre-amplifiers, streamers, cables, etc for home entertainment sound system.
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0:00 Florida Audio Expo!
0:32 TAD Labs
3:35 Classic Audio Loudspeakers (Best Sound of the Show)
5:04 Acora Acoustics & VTL
6:07 Aretai speakers
7:18 Viablue Cables & Accessories
7:43 MonAcoustic Speakers
8:34 Black Ice Audio
9:38 Volti Audio Speakers & Border Patrol
10:49 Orchard Audio GaNFET Designs
12:35 Endow Audio Loudspeakers
13:46 Tobian Speakers & Lampizator/Westminister labs
15:44 Borresen Loudspeakers
17:02 JUST AUDIO (vintage gear)
17:41 Piega Loudspeakers
18:58 BAT Amplifier
19:22 MoFi Sourcepoint 10 Speakers
20:46 GESHELLI LABS
21:28 Diptyque speakers & Cyrus
22:14 SoulNote (EX-Marantz?)
24:07 Q-acoustics Loudspeakers
25:20 Opera Loudspeakers
26:27 MC Audiotech Loudspeakers & Modwright
27:34 AGD Productions (Best Gear of the Show)
29:37 Credo Speakers & Linear Tube Audio
30:38 Florida Promises!
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0:00 Florida Audio Expo!
0:32 TAD Labs
3:35 Classic Audio Loudspeakers (Best Sound of the Show)
5:04 Acora Acoustics & VTL
6:07 Aretai speakers
7:18 Viablue Cables & Accessories
7:43 MonAcoustic Speakers
8:34 Black Ice Audio
9:38 Volti Audio Speakers & Border Patrol
10:49 Orchard Audio GaNFET Designs
12:35 Endow Audio Loudspeakers
13:46 Tobian Speakers & Lampizator/Westminister labs
15:44 Borresen Loudspeakers
17:02 JUST AUDIO (vintage gear)
17:41 Piega Loudspeakers
18:58 BAT Amplifier
19:22 MoFi Sourcepoint 10 Speakers
20:46 GESHELLI LABS
21:28 Diptyque speakers & Cyrus
22:14 SoulNote (EX-Marantz?)
24:07 Q-acoustics Loudspeakers
25:20 Opera Loudspeakers
26:27 MC Audiotech Loudspeakers & Modwright
27:34 AGD Productions (Best Gear of the Show)
29:37 Credo Speakers & Linear Tube Audio
30:38 Florida Promises!
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I think this was the best HiFi show coverage ever produced! You are very thorough and precise, never miss a beat, video capturing and editing also first rated. 🏆🏆🏆🥇🥇🥇👍👍👍
Excellent walk.
Excellent Audio and Video quality.
Excellent Cpmments.
Thank you!
This is the best video covering an audio show that I have seen. The video and sound quality are excellent. And I enjoyed your comments on the sound quality in each room. The next best thing to being there! Thanks Jay.
Very well rounded review of the Florida Audio show. Plus you brought to our attention interesting and innovative products that went unnoticed by other UA-cam reviewers. Nicely done Jay!
The AGD Amps are Gallium Nitride MOSFET Power Stage, Class D Amps. I own a pair the Vivace monoblocks and they are the best amps I have ever heard. There are a few tricks to get the best sound out of them...
What tricks? Feed them with tube preamp?
Are the "tubes" evacuated? I guess the lamps inside are for "show"?
Hi Jay, Thank you for coming by the TAD Labs room, very nice review and appreciate your time and details in your approach. I am now a fan and just subscribed! I hope to see you at another upcoming show!
Good stuff. Glad you are back from Korea. Looking forward to what you have in store for us. 👍🏾
Excellent video Jay and nice meeting you at the show. Knowing how much you love tube amplifiers, I'm surprised you didn't make a mention of Convergent Audio Technology (CAT) gear that you are panning over at 6:45. To me, that was the absolute best tube gear I have ever heard. At the top floor they had the bigger amps running Magico S5 which I normally find fatiguing (too aggressive tweeter for me), but the CAT amps running them just sounded like pure bliss with an amazing bass grip.
Thanks for the walk through - much appreciated!
Great summary of the show! Thanks for doing that.
"Pleasure" is a noun and can't be modified by the word "very." The same way you wouldn't say very speaker or very turntable. As always- thanks for your hard work and sharing your valuable experience.
Thanks for the rundown! The AGD/Ocean Way room was absolutely one of my favorites at Axpona last year. Looking forward to hearing it again in a few weeks
Very well done, it shows that you are a scientist, very meticulous and paying attention to details.
So much gear out there. AMAZING! 😮
great coverage!
Nice to hear the shout out for Classic Audio Loudspeakers. I own a pair of the T1.5's myself (as well as the Atma-sphere Novacrons, which you'll have to beg Ralph to build now), and I think you hit the nail on the head, Jay, when you use the term "involving," what's really says it all. Even though my turntable is not what it needs to be yet, these speakers routinely reduce my guests to tears when they're listening to their favorite music. The emotional connection to the music is simply there, and there is no school like the old school. As John likes to say, you can always chase the latest and greatest, but in the end, field coil speakers are a special world unto themselves.
Classic Audio Loudspeakers--that looks familiar--to a room that was set up at Cap Audio Fest. Very unique. They also had a table selling various Nipper statues, record holders 'art" as well. Think is same folks. Yeah I really dig,
Very Nice coverage of the show 👏
One can Dream 🤤
Saw you there . Well done coverage from my view .
It wasn't uncommon for speaker manufacturers to make clear acrylic enclosures of their speakers and subwoofers for showrooms. The most impressive of them all was the clear Klipschorn. I understand that it was extremely challenging to build.
I live in Tampa bay and visited the show, I missed some rooms so I’m glad I watched your video thank you!
Thank you !
The Soul Note gear is awesome. Especially on those PerListen S7Ts.
Lovely walk thorough a beautiful sounds system. Thank you for your great review . First time I have seen the " Cyrus" in your review.
Here in uk Cyrus is well known Components. I have a Cyrus Older amp plus a power amp. with Dynadio Xcite X-12 older speakers. but it sound great and dynamic enough for general small room sound of music.
Attended an event recently at Evolution Home Theater that had the owners of Denmark Audio group on hand showcasing the BØRRESEN speakers. It looks like for you Jay they had the Z1 series stand mount on display down in FL. I listened to the O1's Stand Mounts. Whoa! I would not have fathomed the amount of energy/sound a bookshelf sized speaker could create. It was a fun evening and the Denmark group are amazing engineers; meticulous, unrelenting in their drive for perfection and amazing in their ability to craft audio gear to the level they do. They next day I looked up the price of the 01's. Needless to say they were way. way, way above my pay grade (actually even the Z series, which are much more affordable, are still out of range for me). But product like this and most that was at the Expo I'll bet was still a thrill to see and hear (one can always dream). And when in FL, one could possibly trip over a square grouper on the beach that could help fund a high end audio gear acquisition! Thanks for sharing your FL trip with us!
Great video
As Dan said below - Dan Edwards - 5 days ago - 5:50 The Acoras were driven by VAC, not VTL tube gear." VTL vacuum tube logic, and VAC valve amplifier company, are both great makers of tube gear, but SHOULD NOT be confused with one another.
I caught that too...
I would have those TAD's in a heart beat ...
Amazing skill
Love the intro man!
Incredible! You are truly busy, and you are travelling a lot lately! I am really proud for our "Korean surpreme leader" lol...(when was this episode you told us about this) So I assume, you are doing well in your life now, and this gives me hope for the young people in our time. Someone who does passionate his work, and puts in effort and love, it would be a must to make good in financial matters. Everything other I would assume as wrong and bad or better, NOT FAIR at all.
I love it when a young handsome man is successful if he puts effort into his job. But first of all, not only effort and work are the keys to success! You must be talented too, so I mean, you better do a job that you like and have passion for! This way you are way more prone to be successful with your work, and it should be way more satisfying too!
That said, I am very glad you do your job that you love, have passion for, because this way I have the most value in my living room, while I watch your videos, and while I suck in the fruits of your Work - and this means, i can participate on your experience in audio gear, and i can learn without much pain, whats going on in the audio-business! This is truly convenient for an old geezer like me, that had to learn anything aut of these things with these strange papersheets you could flip back and forth, back in my time...those sheets with the numbers and the letters on them, you know what we called them? "YEAH! BOOKS! That´s the name of these fountains of knowledge when i was young!
Mucho expansive, and heavy to carry to school and back home too!
That was the way WE had to learn back then, when I was young.....didldi didl di doom.....when i was young....
Young men like our JAY came on the screen the very best time now! Just when i got old and slow, YOU showed up, to bring knowledge to my listening room - 24/7, and almost for free! That´s amazing! Amazing like the content you bring to us! It´s great,l and very appreciated!
Have a good time Jay! And bless you!
Just watched this again. Get coverage that was easy and pleasant to watch. One correction though: the amplification in the granite speaker room were from VAC of Sarasota, Fla., not VTL.
Probably the only audio show where Jay could meet the other Jay.
Please order an AGD GanTube amp for review.
yes I met the big jay !
So Jay thanks for the review of the show. I notice that the you are really in love with the Coaxial Speakers I've always loved them sense before you were born. Back in the car audio days enough of that I'm wondering if you have reviewed the HSU CS8 Coaxial Speakers. I hate we don't have stereo stores anymore like we did in the 70s and 80s. Well have a great week. Darryl
great job Jay-- 150 miles away, but were unable to attend--Frook-- next yr for sure--- lunch on us next yr.
5:50 The Acoras were driven by VAC, not VTL tube gear.
Nice to see Triode Wire Labs being used in more than one of the rooms.
Much better then Fremer's vid-gj
I have a soulnote D" and I am expecting the Z3 transport end of the months. This equipment rules !!!!!!!
just wait until you try it it will blow your mind. For me I have also ordered the D3 when it will become available in Europe
I Saw you at the show, I didn't say hello though. You were shooting video in the lobby on Sunday evening, so I figured I'd let you get your work done without interrupting. Anyway glad you enjoyed your time at the show.✌🏻
Hey Jay excellent show tour ,very nice ...i was wondering if u visited the room with the Eggleston works speakers ,thanks !
Thanks for a rare inside look at the audio show. One of the downers for me is not likely ever being able to hear, never mind see, most of the gear you reviewed or showcased. When you don't live in or near a large metropolis, where the population warrants audio stores to bring in large selections of products, it really limits what you can do with your system as far as upgrades or just plain changes. Having said that, It's great that you are so keen to bring so much good information to the masses - well done!
Jay, wonderful review man! I live in Ft. Lauderdale and I almost drove up there for show but didn't make it. My local friend here is what I call a "1%er" audio dealer by appointment only who starts with products like The Gryphon/Nagra/VAC and it goes up from there. He reported back to me about some highlights and one product he admired was the Acora Acoustics I think made in Richmond Hill??? We are both CDN boys and nice to see amazing new products on display from Canada. If I was able to attend no doubt I would have enjoyed meeting with you. BTW before I go I have to tell you I got my new pair of Magnepan LRS Plus speakers and....WOW....did I say WOW? Holy crap, I bought them just for a lark and I am still on my ass trying to get up. Something for many to think about before thinking of having to shell out six digit figures.
I agree Maggie’s do not sound like anything ELSE. BUT I like the 0.7 better!
Please review the PS FR30 speakers. I’m curious what you think about them. Thanks.
Could you review the all new Qualio Audio IQ Loudspeakers designed by Cube Audio ?
Thank You
I heard soul note paired with diptyque at capital audio show. One of the best by far. Would love for you to review these products
The Piega speakers appear to have concentric planar magnetic drivers?
The MC Audiotech speakers use the 40th anniversary edition of what used to be called Linaeum TLS and is now called WBLS (wide band line source); designed by Paul Paddock. They are a dynamic dipole driver, that work in a unique way. The driver is a masterpiece, in my opinion.
Cool
OCD Mikey loves those AGD amps
The Acora stone loudspeakers must be made of Labradorite (frequently used as... tombstone ) 😁
The granite speakers were pretty rad
U didn't know that pioneer acrylic speaker existed. Come on jay 😂
hey, I don't know everything and I learn new things every day :)
👍👍👍
I wonder what gear would make the Piega less fatiguing?
I have the Classic Audio Loudspeakers For Sale a Store Demo Pair with Tungar Field Coil Power Supply. The last speaker you will ever want!
Vtl or vac with the acora?
What were the speakers in the orchard audio room? Looked like a high end unifi or something like that.
They were Soundfield Audio speakers. See my latest blog post on my website for full details.
Note these are normally active speakers, but he makes them passive upon request, like he did for me at the show.
AGD audio is a class D amplifier. They hide the class D circuit inside a tube like glass.
Herr Schönwitz, sie reden immer von der enormen Überlegenheit der Digitaltechnik im Dynamikbereich. Okay, mag sein, wenn sie denn genutzt würde. Ich benutze u.a. den Tascam DV RA1000 als Abspielgerät für meine CDs. Dieses Gerät hat eine Aussteuerungsanzeige und läßt, entgegen jedem normalen CD-Player, Aussagen über die vorhandene Dynamik auf den CDs zu. Bei "normalen " CDs ist es mit der Dynamik nicht weit her. Die Anzeige des Tascam zeigt die enorme Einschränkung der Dynamik von den CDs auf dem vorhandenen Anzeigeinstrument ganz unmißverständlich. Würde ich jetzt z.B. den Direktschnitt "Flamenco Fever" von Miller & Kreisel (M&K Realtime) mit diesem Gerät aufnehmen (digitalisieren) wollen, würden die Aussteuerungsanzeigen beim Tascam DV RA1000 wie "verrückt" ausschlagen, d.h. zappeln. Das zeigt, auf dieser LP ist deutlich mehr Dynamik vorhanden, als auf vergleichbaren Digitalquellen. Okay, das ist ein Extrembeispiel mit einer super dynamischen LP, hat aber trotzdem Allgemeingültigkeit, weil in Ansätzen immer vorhanden. Die Dynamik spielt sich in heutigen Digitalaufnahmen innerhalb nur weniger db ab, sehr eingeschränkt, wahrscheinlich dem Car-Hifi oder dem Küchenradio geschuldet.
In den Anfängen von hochwertigen Aufnahmen, Mitte der 1950er Jahre, hatte man im Studio ausschließlich Röhrengeräte, Transistorgeräte gab es damals noch nicht. Diese Röhrengeräte hatten in so fern eine Überlegenheit, dass man den Aufnahmen sehr gerne und auch völlig unerkrampft zuhören konnte. Was nützt die ganze "Neutralität" von späterem Transistorgeräten, wenn man kaum mehr Spass beim Hören hat, weil es nur allzu oft lästig und irgendwie flau klingt. Das Hörvergnügen ist im Zeitalter der Digitaltechnik und den unsäglichen negativen Möglichkeit, im Tonstudio, heute leider sehr eingeschränkt worden.
DECCA hat in der Anfangszeit der Stereophonie mit dem Decca-Tree (=3-Kanal) gearbeitet. Der Klang war ganz hervorragend, obwohl nur mit drei Mikrophonen aufgenommen wurde. Decca hat aber auch 20-Kanalaufnahmen gemacht (=Phase 4). Auch diese Aufnahmen klingen super gut. Von beiden Aufnahmetechniken (Deccatree und Phase 4) gibt es Aufnahmen von je ca. 60 Klassik-CDs in einem Karton zukaufen, leider wahrscheinlich mittlerweile ausverkauft. Legen sie sich diese Aufnahmen irgendwie (Gebrauchtmarkt) zu und hören Sie sich das mal an. Sie werden höchst überrascht sein, was Kenneth Wilkinson und seine Kollegen damals auf Band gebracht haben. Aber auch Bob Fine von "Mercury Living Presence" hat in 3-Kanal aufgenommen, indem er einfach 3 Mikrofone von der Decke hängen ließ. Auch "RCA Living Stereo" hat das so gemacht. Alles phantastische Aufnahmen! Bis heute ist viel Gedankengut dieser wunderbaren Pioniere verloren gegangen. Aber natürlich hatten sie damals auch herausragende, durchaus überlegene Geräte, Röhrengeräte eben.
Deshalb rate ich jedem Musikliebhaber in seiner Kette mindestens ein Röhrengerät zu betreiben. Ich betreibe z.B. in meiner Transister-Kette seit ca. 30 Jahren den "großen" SPL Tube Vitalizer. Ein zweigeteiltes Gerät mit einer völlig getrennten Röhren- und Vitalizer-Sektion. Ich benutze nur die Röhren-Sektion, die Vitalizer-Funktion nur bei schlechtem Material das "dringend" Verbesserung benötigt. Der SPL zaubert wunderbaren Röhrenklang in eine Digitalaufnahme. Ich meine, der SPL ist sehr empfehlenswert! Ausnahmsweise ein "Studio-Manupulations-Gerät", das ich gerne empfehle.
Were the Caladans there? If so what did you think about them was there enough bass weight and impact for an open baffle ?
this was last year
@@Jayiyagi oh my bad …
Disappointed you didn't get to Clarisys. They seem to be the hot item right now in the audio world, the second coming of Apogee.
Thanks for stopping by our room.
How about a Yamaha NS 5000 review?
But, are the Piega's dynamic?
Is OCD Mike consider that chair as his listening chair?
Agd amps are ganfet!!
I was there all 3 days, but missed running into you...rats! Maybe next year lol!!
Jay do you still work at audio excellence?
no I do not. it's been a while
@@Jayiyagi that’s too bad I think you always made the show great the 3 of you back in the day. I just tuned into your channel awesome work keep bring the awesome reviews. I had to get rid of all my gear and now going to get new stuff so my be reaching out to you for advice.
Hey Jay. Montreal would be next, right?
I probably won't make it to Montreal, Axpona is next for me !
Goes to show how much Audio. Is different to each listening , The classical , Atmasphere Room was easily the worse sounding room at the fla Expo , 4 yrs running so very consistent flat dry and lacking anything named dynamics , this was shared by many others who heard that room ..
Regards
Wow, Hifi for hedge fund managers.
Orchid and orchard are 2 different things
That AGD gear pointed out your psychoacoustic bias. You thought it was tubes so you liked it like tubes. Most of this stuff is just in our heads when it comes to high end. Power of suggestion. I’ve had clients come in and listen to the same gear. To some I’d say that I like the gear, to other I’d say that I didn’t like the gear. Nine times out of ten they agreed with my suggestion after listening.
HA! I called it, I knew I'd get comments like this and you are right about the power of suggestions and psychoacoustic bias
But, I don't think so in this case. I never go into a room with tubes and think Im going to get a tube sound. I've had too many experiences where tubes didn't sound tube-like for me and that's because many tube manufactures now chase for a more modern sound and trying to compete with solid states etc. I went into rooms with tube gear and didn't find them tube-y as explained in the video.
@@Jayiyagi yeah that’s fair too. You may very well hear a genuine difference. I just think it’s worth reminded folks that psychoacoustics can have a big impact. Also for what’s it’s worth I heard the AGD gear up at Capital. It’s good stuff.
@@lukerestlessstudiostubes will fundamentally change the way a system sounds. We have video evidence of it. Check out virtual hifi videos and NRD video he did on 4 different tube amps (though that one is far more open to bias as the whole track is played between each one). Obviously close your eyes while listening to them.
@@lukerestlessstudiosin particular check out virtualhifi's Naim Supernait 3 vs KT120 Tsakiridis and EL34 vs 6550, KT88, KT120 videos.
I thought the whole point of Audio Research was to make tube amps that didn’t sound like tubes!
OK then
so little thought given to room treatments.
Ocean Way Audios big systems easy beat Most Others Horn speakers.
All this new stuff is not necessarily any better than the golden era of audio stuff. Subjective of course. I personally have been through some of it. Didn’t last long. Been back to Quad Esl57 ,Radford STA15 and arc sp6E. So far 14 years and no desire to change. The only other speaker I own are the Gold Badge Falcon ls35a. Oh, pair of REl T7i crossed at 35 hz. Cost of this system is less than the cables some use. Don’t understand. To each his own.
If you listen to old and few genres, then yea, you probably arn't limited by vintage gear. Play power violence through them, and no, they won't be acceptable.
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Dafuq is liquid/fluid? You need to get more precise, I know it is difficult, but please don't say liquid/fluid/organic, etc!