Capital AudioFest 2022

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Capital Audiofest 2022: A Fantastic Show

Ken Micallef Nov 16, 2022 First Published: Nov 16, 2022 0 comments

CAF 2022 was fantastic! There were many great sounding rooms, and everyone was in good spirits. Soon after the show kicked off, many rooms became so packed, I couldn't enter. SRO! As always, my eyes and ears bulge to take it all in. CAF organizer and promoter Gary Gill (above) has much to be proud of.

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Fidelis Distribution/Heretic Loudspeakers Co./Lab 12/CEC/ArgentPur

Ken Micallef Nov 16, 2022 First Published: Nov 16, 2022 0 comments

Fidelis Distribution and Heretic Loudspeakers Co. brought their high-sensitivity Heretic AD612 loudspeakers ($9290/pair) to CAF, paired with CEC and Lab 12 equipment.

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Classic Audio Loudspeakers/Atma-Sphere Music Systems/Purist Audio Design/Tri-Planar

Ken Micallef Nov 16, 2022 First Published: Nov 16, 2022 0 comments

John Wolff brought his Classic Audio Loudspeakers T-3.4 Field Coils ($29,500/pair) to the Show. This speaker comprised an all wood cabinet, 300 HTZ radial wood Tractix horn, two 15" woofers, a "4" beryllium tweeter diaphragm by Truextent loaded into 6475 2" throat field-coil compression driver," and a 16 ohms impedance. They weigh 350lb apiece.

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Fidelity Imports/Diptyque/Cyrus/Innuos

Ken Micallef Nov 15, 2022 First Published: Nov 15, 2022 0 comments

Steve Jain, Managing Director & cofounder of New Jersey's Fidelity Imports had [edit] six rooms (!) at CAF, all packed with enough hi-fi goodness to make my North Carolina grandmother give-me-my-inheritance-now to buy more gear!

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The Voice That Is/Vinnie Rossi/Tidal Audio/Critical Mass Systems/Siltech

Ken Micallef Nov 15, 2022 First Published: Nov 15, 2022 0 comments

Literally everything in this room, except Doug White of The Voice That Is and Vinnie Rossi, was new.

This room gets my vote for the most beautiful looking system of the show. A stunner.

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MoFi Electronics/Alma Music & Audio/HiFi Rose/SolidSteel/Isotek

Ken Micallef Nov 15, 2022 First Published: Nov 15, 2022 0 comments

Andrew Jones enthuses about his new MoFi SourcePoint 10 speakers

CAF 2022 was all abuzz with news of Andrew Jones's new MoFi Electronics 10 standmount loudspeaker, the SourcePoint 10 ($3699/pair, Stereophile review by John Atkinson scheduled for the February 2023 issue). With a specified sensitivity of 91dB/2.83V/m and an impedance of 8 ohms, the two-way, reflex-loaded speaker features a 1.25" soft-dome tweeter concentrically mounted in a 10" woofer. But that's not all that was on display and in use in the MoFi room.

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Acora Acoustics/Hegel/JMF Audio/Ideon Audio/Cardas

Ken Micallef Nov 15, 2022 First Published: Nov 15, 2022 0 comments

Val Acora returned to CAF with his new quartz QRC-1 and QRC-2 two-way Scanspeak driver-equipped loudspeakers, the quartz cabinet material a variation on his former granite-enclosure models. Why quartz? Acora said quartz is more forgiving, easier to work with, provides a more rigid material that holds drivers more securely, and has better sound.

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Rethm/Ampsandsound/Auralic

Ken Micallef Nov 15, 2022 First Published: Nov 15, 2022 0 comments

India's Rethm loudspeakers, California's Ampsandsound, and China's Auralic combined forces to make unique sounds at CAF 2022.

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Now Listen Here/Legacy Audio/Bel Canto/Innuos/Transparent

Ken Micallef Nov 15, 2022 First Published: Nov 15, 2022 0 comments

Legacy Audio founder and designer Bill Dudleston (center) brought his Aeris and Calibre loudspeakers to CAF, joined by Now Listen Here's James Thompson (left) and Aaron Sherrick (right).

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Mytek/AGD/JM Labs

Ken Micallef Nov 13, 2022 First Published: Nov 13, 2022 0 comments

Albert Guerra of AGD Productions (left) and Michal Jurewicz (right)

Running into my Brooklyn buddy and Mytek head honcho Michal Jurewicz at the local Safeway (hotel food: $$$), he invited me to an after-hours shootout between his forthcoming GaN FET-powered, Empire monoblocks ($19,990/pair, below), which are specified as offering 400W into 8 ohms and 800W into 4 ohms. His dueling partner in this shootout was Albert Guerra of AGD Productions, who brought his GaN FET-operated Gran Vivace Monoblocks ($18,500/pair).