Capital AudioFest 2024

Newcomer Eastern Bay Sound brought its new “Farm-to-Table” speakers to CAF2024.

The speakers are made on the Chesapeake Bay by local artisans who use a local mill to provide wood for their hardwood designs, which borrow from local nautical history, according to the company’s Buff Colchagoff.

EBS’s Southwind standmount ($1450/pair) is a mass-loaded Voigt pipe (mass-loaded horn) designed for the Markaudio CHR-90 5½” full-range drive unit. The cabinet’s inner box is ½" Baltic Birch plywood, and the outer box is ¼" Walnut, with Maple and Cherry hardwoods.

“Both the alloy cone CHR-90 and mica-impregnated pulp-cone CHP-90 can be used with minimal changes to the low-frequency alignment. The load is based on a custom alignment developed by Dr. Scott Lindgren and David Dlugos of Woden Design, which was then extensively modeled in software packages from Augspurger, AJ Systems, and R&D Team, before going through several months of prototyping and measurements from which we made final refinements to the design,” noted the website.

The crossoverless design offers sensitivity of 89dB, and an impedance of 8 ohms.

The Skeg subwoofer ($600/each, $950/pair) is an aperiodic design with a frequency response of 45 Hz–20 kHz (±3 dB).

The speakers were driven by a Linear Tube Audio Aero DAC ($3950) into a Linear Tube Audio ZOTL Ultralinear+ integrated amp ($7650), accompanied by ANTICABLES Level 4.2 FLEX Speaker Wires ($520/7ft pair), Level 5.3 XLR Interconnects ($850/¾m pair), Level 3.3 USB Digital Interconnect ($240/1m), and Level 3 Reference Series Power Cords ($330/each).