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The first year I went on friday It was really easy to park and move around most of the day. An injury prevented me from attending last year, but this year I was lucky enough to parallel park my truck in the only spot left other than valet and the elevator lines were insane... on a friday!

If 1990 is vintage my first 'hi-end' speaker assuming the Bose 901vI doesn't count would be the KEF R105/3 that I kept for 25 years. I added a pair of VA beethovens in 04 that became mains, but on the weekends the KEF's went back in for their ability to assault my senses! To be realistic I thing...

2025 350 xc-f, the latest addition, bit of a challenge with 37.5" seat height and me with 28" inseam.

I was surprised to see so many rooms using Aragon at the heart of some high quality systems, I seem to remember Aragon being one of the 'affordable' choices in their day.

I didn't care for the peachtree nova int and how obviously limited it was, but the lumin m1 60 wpc streaming integrated amp acquitted itself nicely compared to the other int's in the under $5k range. From what I've heard class D can compete with the other entry level hifi products from...

They had quite a few 'practical' sized subs along each side of the open demonstration floor. Surprisingly the rep there didn't really use peoples awe at the monstrosity to plug the brand.

The performa 4's sounded really good in the small hotel room. reminded my of the older f52.

Not all the rooms had products I was interested and tbh my ears started to punk out before I was done anyhow. If I had a complaint it would be too many subs turned up to loud to get an idea how a lot of speakers were tonally balanced.

Friday is much easier to get into the more popular rooms

There’s 2 local dealers I spend my spare money at. While one of the shop owners did start to take me a bit more seriously after a h590 purchase and even told me a story about a fellow audiophile finding nirvana from a power cord when I inquired about speaker cables he suggested they were a tweak...

Being less than an hour away I’ll be going

The only new dac's I've hears are budget pieces. I'm the guy that comes into the shop and takes weeks to months to decide on a product and then has the patience to wait for that product come down to a price I'm willing to pay. I've inquired about cables and been talked out of trying any because...

not sure

I just need to get to a shop that can do a side by side for me. Someone here recommended lumin and I can get a comparison between that the icon, dac1 and dac 2 all today which I'll do unless my offer on a pair of blade meta's is accepted.

I think he told me to try the node, even though he warned me it wouldn't sound any different, was because I told him bluesound owners were still claiming to get mqa on tidal thru their systems. I'm not dropping $12k on a dac, but if I can get one second hand, or get a demo box and the sound...