Shows
Irvine, California (June 3-5, 2016) “Best of Show” – Cost No Object – Robert Harley Robert Harley – The Absolute Sound – Lumenwhite White Light 25 Anniversary Loudspeaker – “Best of Show” Robert Harley’s Best of Show Best Sound (cost no object) The newly introduced Lumen White White Light speaker from Switzerland ($70k) not only looked gorgeous, but also…
2015 Newport Audio Show Report Show Report by Paul Seydon | Jun 04th, 2015 Categories: Solid-state power amplifiers, Tubed power amplifiers, Solid-state preamplifiers, Tubed preamplifiers, Integrated amplifiers. Are there now too many audio shows? I ask because, coming hard on the heels of the Munich Show, this year’s Newport…
By Jason Victor Serinus – “Stereophile” – USA Virtually every system on the lobby level of the Hotel Irvine qualified as cost-no-object, with some being more stratospherically priced than others. What immediately seized the attention of everyone who entered this extremely large room was the marvelously full range, convincingly colorful organ holding forth from Tineo…
Demo Equipment: Loudspeaker: Lumen White – White Light “Anniversary”Analog Turntable: Lumen White – MysterePower amplifier: Ayon – Crossfire Evolution & AlphaPre amp: Ayon – Spheris III – LinestagePhonostage: Ayon – SpherisCD-Transport: Ayon CD-TNetwork-Transport: Ayon NW-TDAC: Ayon Sigma & Stealth
November 6-8, 2014 Ayon equipment in Demo there: Crossfire Evolution – Monoblock Spheris III – Linestage Spheris – Phonostage CD-T – CD-Transport NW-T – Network-Transport Sigma – D/A Converter
STEREOPHILE – John Atkinson My final room Sunday afternoon was the Ayon and USA Tube Audio Labs. Not only did the last company’s Tineo J horn speakers, with their powered stereo subwoofers operating below 70Hz($35,000/system) catch my eye, their sound, driven by Ayon’s Titan mono amplifiers ($68,000/pair) and Spheris III preamp ($48,000), caught my ear.…