Toronto Audiofest 2024

The Kennedy Hi-Fi room was showing another product at the show that was creating a buzz: the Audiovector Trapeze loudspeaker ($25,000/pair), another product from Denmark, a country rich in high-end manufacturing. A 3-way floorstanding design, the Trapeze features a proprietary 12" high-power mid/bass driver, a 5" high-speed midrange, and an AMT (Air Motion Transformer) tweeter.

Joining the Trapeze were a trio of Fezz Audio products: a Sagita Evolution preamplifier ($2900), a 45Wpc, KT-88-based Titania amplifier ($4000), and an Equinox DAC ($3000), said by the company to be "the world’s only Lampizator licensed vacuum tube D/A converter designed by Lukas Fikus." Also in the system were an Eversolo DMP-A6 Master Edition streamer/DAC/preamplifier ($1899) and cabling by Kimber Kable from its Carbon Series.

This was one of the best bang-for-your-buck systems at the show. The sound it produced was high-class: sweet, expressive, tactile, with very good imaging and tonal purity. On a track with string sections, the instruments' tone was so lusciously captivating, I could feel a potent, emotional pull. Fezz products seem to punch way above their weight class. Very nice!