AXPONA 2024

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AXPONA 2024
Interview: Fyne Audio's Dr. Paul Mills and Andrzej Sosna
Ken Micallef  |  Apr 20, 2024  | 

The following interview, with Fyne Audio Technical Director Dr. Paul Mills and Managing Director Andrzej Sosna, conducted by Stereophile Contributing Editor Ken Micallef, was posted previously embedded in a report on Harmonia Distribution's rooms at AXPONA. Here, we present it on its own so that more people will see it.

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Infigo and Alta Audio
Rogier van Bakel  |  Apr 19, 2024  | 
Sinatra said it best: Regrets, I have a few.

On Sunday morning, the final day of the show, my main regret was that I hadn’t made it to the fourth-floor Infigo/Alta room a day or two earlier. If I had, I would have encouraged everyone to go listen.

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MoFi Electronics
Ken Micallef  |  Apr 19, 2024  | 
Affable speaker designer Andrew Jones held court in room 334, explaining the details behind his new SourcePoint 888 floorstanding speakers ($4999/pair), an AXPONA world premiere (review forthcoming). Unfortunately, he couldn’t play his speakers due to the hotel’s intermittent Wi-Fi, which plagued many rooms.
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Audio Note (UK)
Ken Micallef  |  Apr 17, 2024  | 
I typically attend Audio Note (UK) rooms not just to listen, but to learn.
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Sierra Sound, Aesthetix Audio Corp, Analog Manufaktur Germany, Benz Micro Switzerland
Ken Micallef  |  Apr 17, 2024  | 
First-time AXPONA exhibitor Sierra Sound was founded in 2020 as a distributor for strictly analog hi-fi equipment. Rather high minded, wouldn’t you say? Personally, I’m all in.
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Rhythm Distribution, Tannoy, Garrard, Goldmund, Lumin, AudioQuest, Nordost
Ken Micallef  |  Apr 17, 2024  | 

Rhythm Distribution’s Craig Hoffman teamed up with Garrard, Goldmund, and Tannoy to unveil a beautiful-looking, primarily analog rig at AXPONA. Kat Ourlian—Global Head of Sales and Marketing for SME—was on hand to spin vinyl; she had Room 660 rocking from the first needle-drop.

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Magico, Pilium, Antipodes, Vyda
Rogier van Bakel  |  Apr 17, 2024  | 
Magico turns 20 this year, but founder and chief designer Alon Wolf isn’t the type for gauzy remembrances. In Magicoland, looking ahead beats looking back, so we’ll have to marvel some other time at how the Californian brand has shot to the top of the high-end heap.
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Fidelity Imports, Ruark, Q Acoustics, Gold Note, QED
Rogier van Bakel  |  Apr 17, 2024  | 
On the 12th floor of the Schaumburg Renaissance hotel, visitors found a cluster of Fidelity Imports rooms that highlighted one strong foreign brand after another.
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Magnepan and Rogue Audio
Ken Micallef  |  Apr 16, 2024  | 
Rogue Audio's Nick Fitzsimmons and Bill Magerman ran a room that operated smoothly and sounded smooth.
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YG Acoustics, Ayre Acoustics, Argento
Mark Henninger  |  Apr 16, 2024  | 
YG Acoustics speakers were featured in several rooms at AXPONA 2024. The highlight for me was a room featuring the Carmel 3 speakers ($29,800 per pair), the entry point to the company's Reference range.
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Harmonia Distribution: Fyne Audio, Pathos, PrimaLuna, Cabasse
Jim Austin  |  Apr 16, 2024  |  First Published: Apr 14, 2024  | 

Harmonia—the recently renamed distribution arm of hi-fi company Upscale Audio—had four rooms on the 12th floor at AXPONA.

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SVS and the New Ultra Evolution Pinnacle
Jim Austin  |  Apr 15, 2024  | 

Ever since the announcement some two weeks ago, I've been eager to hear the SVS Ultra Evolution Pinnacle loudspeakers, which, at $2499 each—or, you guessed it, $4998/pair—are cheap in high-end terms but quite expensive for SVS.

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Rutherford Audio: Stratton Acoustics, Accustic Arts, Vertere, Analog Signature, Antipodes, Solid Tech
Jim Austin  |  Apr 15, 2024  |  First Published: Apr 14, 2024  | 

In Schaumburg C, Rutherford Audio set up camp—and what a camp it was! Electronics by Accustic Arts, analog by Acoustic Signature and Vertere—two turntables—and loudspeakers by Stratton Acoustics, a speaker line I had not previously heard.

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Bel Canto, Pure Fidelity, YG
Jim Austin  |  Apr 15, 2024  | 

When I walked into this room, just before closing time on Sunday, the show’s last day, they were spinning vinyl. Two things are notable about that fact, at least to me.

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AirTight, Reed, and Franco Serblin Make Joyful Music
Jason Victor Serinus  |  Apr 15, 2024  |  First Published: Apr 13, 2024  | 
What better way to start the first day of an audio show than with some light joyful music? In this case, it was with a 1974 LP, Heinz Holliger: Famous Oboe Concertos, on which the famous oboist joined players of the Dresden State Orchestra under Vittorio Negri for, among other works, Leclair’s Concerto in C for Oboe, Strings, and Continuo, Op. 7. In the first movement, the lively presentation complemented equally lively music, which cheerily zipped along.

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