i really enjoyed the show! great to see so many old friends. so many highlights! two of my golf buddies (music lovers with modest systems) stopped by for hours on Saturday. they loved it and were very impressed with the sounds and the people. both now have upgradeitis.....thanks to all!
Florida Audio Expo Show Report
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Images for today. Many more to come. Shot more than I thought.ENJOY!
Great Photos George. Thanks for sharing.
a.wayne
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a.wayne
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The digital was fantastic , free of digital artifacts typical of digital only rooms IMO, it was as if walking into a analog playing room , this is very noticeable going from room to room at shows..!
Very musical for sure ..!!!
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Good video. We took spots 1 and 3 and 1 and 2 from the other fellow. Not too shabby! The Xtremes seemed to be on many peoples top lists, but not everyone, and that’s cool too. Some love a point source sound much better. I agree with him about the BlueHawaii/Stax combo. It’s fantastic. It’s what we show here in the store.
Next year, we will have the 101e mk2 in the Tampa Terrace room (where the Vivid’s were) and in the big room (where the MBL Xtreme’s were)….stay tuned….
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That’s the one room I wanted to hear. Never got a chance to get away.
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Puma Cat
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Yeah, I watched an interview with Lukasz Fikus on YouTube. Interestingly, he said that rather than the Pacific being the "father" of the Horizon, that the Horizon is the "bastard son" of the Baltic 3. When I interviewed him last year, he told me all the intensive R&D that went into the Baltic 3 would be the foundation for a new design paradigm for DACs. Looks like the Horizon is the first new DAC to be based on the seminal research done for the Baltic 3.
Mr Peabody
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Not that it matters much but the interview I saw with Lukas he says they started with a blank page for the Horizon. Then he goes on to explain the tube circuits as my eyes begin to roll back in myhead LOL
a.wayne
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I do agree mostly with his show assessment, so are the big MBL’s coming back as this yr ..?
Audioseduction
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OK, next list of images. Still, many more to come. ENJOY!
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No. That’s XTreme. We’ll show the smaller 101e mk2 next year in the square room. [emoji15]. I’ll take my big room back and show….hmm….[emoji848]
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Actually to my mind, the Horizon has elements of the Baltic, Atlantic TRP and the Pac all rolled into one and taken to an extreme level...17 linear power supplies 5x overspeed.
The Pac has one 6n1p anode load tube in SE, while the Horizon has TWO pentodes to do the same job. Output on the Horizon is equivalent to one dual triode for SE, BUT a couple pins in the output triodes are blended with a couple the Pentode pins to form a VIRTUAL new tube. This give some semblance of the TRP circuit, B£ circuit with the anode load shedding of the Pac/B3....all done with outrageously elaborate componentry. On paper a significant step up over the Pac.
Hahahahaha. Couldn't tear yourself away from the full blow warp core Star Trek sound! I don't blame U. Million dollar sound.
SCAudiophile
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The photography is masterful...thank you for posting all of these photos!
crwilli
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Maybe Kharma Veyron? 
Puma Cat
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At 15:58 in the video, after Ron Resnick asks him if the Baltic 4 will receive trickle-down technology from the Horizon, Lukasz states: "It's the other way around, actually. Its' the Horizon that enjoys trickle-down technology from the Baltic 3." At 16:46 into the video, Lakasz states, verbatim, "So, it's not that the Horizon is the baby of the Pacific, it's the bastard-son of the Baltic 3."
That also speaks to just how good the Baltic 3 is.
Puma Cat
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Hey Dev, no, Lukasz said they were going to take what they had learned from the (considerable) R&D effort from the Baltic 3 and Horizon development projects, and apply it to the development of some new (analog) amplification products.
Here's what I would recommend, though: Put a Shunyata Altaira Chassis Ground hub when it's available onto an unused digital port of your Baltic 3.
Cheers.
Have you tried ? what was the result ?