Walking down the short, narrow corridor which led to the block of rooms hosted by Audio Vision was sort of like walking down the short, narrow length of Lucky 7 Tavern on a Saturday night: It was loud, crowded, and people kept asking me if I wanted a beer.

There sure is a lot of drinking going on at this show, I thought to myself.

Inside one of these rooms, I found a little rock’n’roll system of Nola Micro Grand loudspeakers ($15,200/pair); Naim HDX server ($8150), XPS power supply ($5000), NAC 252 preamplifier ($9250), NAP 250 power amplifier ($5750), all on Naim equipment racks; Clearaudio Performance turntable ($2800) with Talisman moving-coil phono cartridge ($1750); and Nordost Frey speaker cables ($2699/2m pair) and interconnects ($1099/1m pair).

This system smelled like red wine and 1980s nostalgia. There was a lot of dancing going on in here.