Stephen Mejias

Gingko Audio Upgrades for VPI's Traveler
RMAF 2012
Stephen Mejias  |  Oct 17, 2012  |  3 comments
Jason Victor Serinus has already discussed the products shown by Gingko Audio, but here’s a closer look at VPI’s Traveler turntable with Gingko’s Cloud 9T vibration-control platform ($349) and dust cover ($279).
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Apex Audio
RMAF 2012
Stephen Mejias  |  Oct 17, 2012  |  5 comments
I had thought things were pretty fancy over in Musical Surroundings’ Crestone Peak room, but nothing could have prepared me for what Apex Audio had set up in the Blanca Peak:
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TweekGeek and Knights of the Listening Room
RMAF 2012
Stephen Mejias  |  Oct 17, 2012  |  5 comments
The people from TweekGeek (“Funny Name, Serious Audio”) have a great thing going. They’re starting the Knights of the Listening Room, “a group of friends where audiophiles can share their audio systems…”
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Musical Surroundings
RMAF 2012
Stephen Mejias  |  Oct 17, 2012  |  3 comments
On the Mezzanine Level, in the Crestone Peak room, Musical Surroundings put together an audacious, high-aspirations system:
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Odyssey Audio
RMAF 2012
Stephen Mejias  |  Oct 17, 2012  |  3 comments
Odyssey Audio products are proudly handmade in the US and sold factory-direct. The system I heard consisted of Odyssey’s Kismet Reference loudspeakers ($3500/pair), Stratos stereo amplifier ($1400), Candela preamp ($1500), Suspiro MC/MM phono stage ($1200), Groneberg cables, and a 15-year-old VPI turntable.
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More Cowbell, Obviously
RMAF 2012
Stephen Mejias  |  Oct 17, 2012  |  3 comments
John Atkinson insisted that this cowbell had something to do with his daily seminar on recorded sound, but I suspect that he, like most people at RMAF, was just having a good time.
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SOTA's $800 Moonbeam
RMAF 2012
Stephen Mejias  |  Oct 17, 2012  |  5 comments
John Atkinson told me I should go see SOTA’s Donna Bodinet, so I did, and this is what I found: SOTA’s Series II Moonbeam turntable ($800 with S100 tonearm and Ortofon OM5E phono cartridge).
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On an AudioQuest
RMAF 2012
Stephen Mejias  |  Oct 17, 2012  |  0 comments
In the AudioQuest room, I was treated to a course on the Powers of Network Attached Storage. It wasn’t really a course and it wasn’t really called that, but it could have been. AudioQuest’s Steve Silberman is convincing. And I am now convinced that, when the time comes for me to dive into computer audio and other digital waters, I’ll seriously consider a NAS for my needs.

While Silberman has found success with several different NAS devices, on display in the AQ room was Synology’s powerful DS712+, which Silberman says is highly reliable, has a very friendly user interface, and never compromises the performance of his system.

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Wavelength & Vaughn
RMAF 2012
Stephen Mejias  |  Oct 17, 2012  |  3 comments
Wavelength Audio and Vaughn Loudspeakers teamed up for a sound that may have lacked the bass impact and scale of other systems I heard at RMAF, but that was coherent, relaxed, and very easy to enjoy.
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Eficion & Plinius
RMAF 2012
Stephen Mejias  |  Oct 17, 2012  |  2 comments
Eficion’s distinctly shaped F250 loudspeaker ($9950/pair) combines an Air Motion Transformer tweeter with a 5” carbon-fiber midrange unit and a 10” woofer. The speaker has a high specified sensitivity of 90db and a frequency range of 30Hz–35kHz.

The speakers were partnered with Plinius (“The Heart of Music”) gear: the 125Wpc, Class-A SA-103 power amplifier ($10,125), M8 preamplifier ($5150), and Tiki 24/96-compatible networking DAC ($4775).

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