Here's our final report from the New York Audio Show. Thank you to everyone who watched our previous videos, all of which featured Herb Reichert (left above in JA's photo) and gave us feedback—positive and otherwise. We started making these videos as a response to feedback, and will continue monitoring feedback to help improve our future videos.
In the first room hosted by Adirondack Audio & Video: a D-08u SACD Player ($14,995), PD-171A belt-drive turntable ($6,995), Ortofon Cadenza Blue cartridge ($2039), EQ-500 vacuum-tube phono EQ ($6495), C-900u control preamplifier ($14,995), M-900u stereo power amplifier ($14,995), the 8Wpc MQ-300 vacuum-tube power amplifier ($20,995), and a pair of floorstanding Triangle Magellan Quatuor loudspeakers. Ken Micallef shared his impressions on this room in his Saturday report.
In the second room hosted by Brooklyn based manufacturer Ohm Acoustics: Ohm Walsh 2000 loudspeakers ($2800/pair), an Outlaw RR 2160 stereo receiver ($799), a Bluesound Node 2 ($500), and an Oppo DV-980H DVD player ($170).
In the third room partially hosted by Mytek: a Mytek Brooklyn DAC+, a Mytek Manhattan DAC II, and a Mytek Amp, with a VPI Cliffwood turntable connected to phono pre of the Brooklyn DAC+, an Oppo CD player playing Chesky MQA CDs, a touchscreen PC playing Roon with Tidal MQA and DSD local files, Elac Debut 5 bookshelf speakers powered by the Brooklyn amp; and Audeze LCD-X, Focal Utopia, and HiFiMAN HE 1000 headphones.
