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Directly around the corner from Primedia's booth, where CDs and t-shirts were selling like seats at a Feist concert, Aperion Audio showcased a small dorm room rig. Here's Aperion's VP of Marketing (& Sports Fanatic), John Wanderschied, looking pretty darn satisfied.
Why so chuffed?
Well, he's happy to own the new Attention Screen CD (points for product-placement!). Plus, The Intimus 632 is Aperion's top of the line mini, using a 6.5" carbon fiber woofer and a 1" silk dome tweeter. It sells for a brisk $600/pair.
These days, that's less than a…
Back in March, we told you a bit about Aperion University, Aperion Audio's online hi-fi and home theater tutorial. Classes have resumed here at HE 2007.
The company is obviously reaching out to a younger audience, keeping things simple and fun.
Money, ramen, and hi-fi. What else do you need, really?
If a long line at registration is an indication of a show’s success—and it’s certainly one indication—then Home Entertainment 2007, held this weekend at the Grand Hyatt in Manhattan, could be pronounced a success by an hour after it was open to the public. The line was long enough that some people were grumbling—but their complaining stopped when they got in and had a chance see and hear all the neat stuff at the show. Exhibitors John Atkinson talked to at the end of the day seemed very happy with the turnout.
An early candidate for Best in Show honors, the Dynaudio/Simaudio room pulsed with warm, smooth, detailed sound. The impressive Dynaudio Confidence C1 loudspeakers partnered beautifully with Simaudio's W-7M amplification.
The speakers, in gorgeous piano black finish ($7000/pair), fairly vanished without a trace, while those unswerving monoblocks ($15,000/pair) poured 1000W (into 4ohms) of power into the space around us.
For Stereophile writers, a show like HE 2007 is not just an opportunity to find out about new audio equipment, but also to meet their colleagues and catch up on the latest industry gossip. Here, by the booth selling Stereophile CDs (including the new Attention Screen Live at Merkin Hall) we have (from left to right) Stereophileassistant editor and primary blogger Stephen Mejias, Home Theater techical editor Geoffrey Morrison, illustrator Jeff Wong (known to readers for his cartoons in the www.stereophile.com forums), editor John Atkinson, and senior contributing editor Wes Phillips.…
Outlaw Audio had a press conference, at which Peter Tribeman talked about all their new products in a way that effectively combined modesty with a not-inappropriate touch of blowing your own horn. He freely admitted that there are a number of companies making excellent speakers—naming several that he admired—but suggested that Outlaw Audio’s new speakers stand comparison with these industry standards. He said their aim was not to sell a boatload of speakers, but to use the best components and designs, tweaking the crossover of each speaker to produce true audiophile results. The…
The press conference that I personally found the most exciting on the Show's first day was by Ralph Glasgal (left) on his Ambiophonics system. I knew about Ambiophonics (a signal-processing system
designed to cancel out interference between a pair of loudspeakers,
creating something akin to binaural listening but from speakers instead of headphones), but somehow I’ve never heard a demonstration, or at least not a convincing one. The demo setup at HE2007 was rather unusual, with a pair of giant Sound-Lab electrostatics at one end of the room, and another pair of floor-standing TacT…
Free jazz quartet Attention Screen, which I recorded live at Manhattan's Merkin Hall in February, are performing a 60-minute set Saturday May 12 at 12:30pm, to celebrate the release at HE2007 of the resultant CD.
The set list includes four of the CD's six cuts, but as it's jazz I am sure the musicians—Bob Reina on piano, Chris Jones on fretless Fender bass, Mark Flynn on drums, and Don Fiorino on electric and lap-steel guitars, lotar, and ukulele—will use the recorded improvisations as starting points rather than destinations. They are going to rock the house!
Later: while…
An unusually sleepy-eyed Lionel Goodfield in Larry Greenhill's photo stands beside the newest additions to Simaudio's Moon Classic series.
Here, technology has trickled down to products that a wider audience of music lovers can possibly afford. The CD1 offers a 24-bit/192kHz DAC within a simple, yet handsome package. The i-1 integrated amplifier boasts an oversized power supply using a custom toroidal transformer design, and is rated to deliver 50Wpc into 8 ohms. It offers six line-level inputs including, of course, the 1/8" mini-jack for your iPod, as well as a handy-…