Unfortunately, I didn't take as many pictures as I should have. If I go next year I'll know better. Other systems that I thought were quite good were the Bamburg speakers. Nice detailed full range speakers, and the review pair were for sale at an attractive price.
http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue42/bamberg.htm
For inexpensive speakers I really like the SB acoustic speakers in Nate's Audio room.
The Snell Phantoms were very good I thought. Hearing the seminar by Joe D'Appolito was very interesting for me and he made a good case for his arrangement of mid tweeter mid. I really had no experience hearing speakers that used that configuration before but the Snells, the Song Towers, the Tyler Acoustics speakers all used that configuration and they all sounded good.
I liked the SAS room and the Selah Phast Jr. speakers.
The Big Quads were well...big. I mean really huge. It seemed like they were 5 feet wide, (maybe only 4) but they simply were too big for the room. I thought the bass was too much for the room and couldn't make any real judgements about them.
There were other rooms where I was expecting more based on reviews and the amount of print they've been getting. Maybe I was there at a bad time, sitting in the wrong spot, who knows.
One thing is that it does seem that people did agree on the Salk HT-4's were something special.
What I find quite interesting, having heard some of the set ups, reading what other people have written, is how much a role personal preference plays in how people percieve a system. I like to make it analogous to food. I love Indian food, many people don't. Without listening to the systems yourself, you really don't know what they sound like. The only way to use reviews is to use them as a guide to find things that you might thingk are interesting, then try and hear them for yourself. I think that is probably the one thing that may save the brick and mortar businesses. Because the whole thing is a matter of personal preference, you really need to be able to hear things in order to decide if it suites you.
At the end of the day, I really enjoyed the show, and hope to make it back again. The other thing, was it was really nice to get back to my Vista's becuase as nice as some of the systems were. My system was assembled to suit my preferences, and my Vista's still have a midrange clarity that was better than or the equal of anything I heard. :music:
Chuck
in this thread., Or its predecessor, that is linked...... Some asked for reviews and pictures and that is what was posted. I guess if your not talking about digital Vs analogue its not a hot topic !
