Motet: PS Audio, Accuphase, Lumin, Kimber Kable, Quadraspire - Toronto Audiofest 2024

All prices listed in CA$.

You want big-toned, vivid, seemingly effortlessly dispersed sound with a knack for delivering some of the most stable and incisively air-sculpted, but not fatiguing, imaging I've heard at the show? Then step right up, into the Motet room, which was showcasing a powerful system comprising a pair of PS Audio ASPEN FR30 speakers ($40,000/pair), two 65Wpc, class-A Accuphase A-80 power amplifiers in bridged mode ($28,000/each), an Accuphase C-2300 preamplifier ($15,000), a Lumin P1 streamer ($13,500), a PS Audio PowerPlant 20 AC regenerator ($15,000), with cabling by Kimber Kable and stands by Quadraspire.

I'm sure this system can play softly and delicately, but it seemed in its element playing in one of the show's conference rooms, which it filled up with bold, larger-than-life pictures and music that was exciting, layered, and brimming with activity, detail, and a sense of unfettered energy.

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