Robert Schryer

Altitudo Audio, Audio Physics, Electrocompaniet, Audio Note, Harmonic Resolution Systems
Montreal Audiofest 2024
Robert Schryer  |  Mar 30, 2024  |  1 comments
You want chunky sounds, vivid tone, socking bass, and a globe-like soundstage with notes that appear so solid and dimensional you might be tempted to try to pick them like an apple from an apple tree? If so, then step right up into the Altitudo room, which may look a little small for the amount of gear present and the size of the speakers I listened to, but make no mistake, the sound I heard from FLAC files streamed from a hard drive was clean, muscular, and colorfully diverse.
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Technics, Ortofon, Jorma Audio, AudioQuest
Montreal Audiofest 2024
Robert Schryer  |  Mar 30, 2024  |  0 comments
Technics was showing some delightfully high-end stuff. The turntables were more alike sonically than different, revealing a house sound marked by clarity, explicitness, transient speed, ambient cues, and vivid pictures.
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Motet, PMC, Accuphase, EverSolo, Lumin, Kimber
Montreal Audiofest 2024
Robert Schryer  |  Mar 29, 2024  |  0 comments
The room shared by distributor Motet and PMC Speakers showcased a system—actually, two systems, but I only experienced one. This system surprised me, not merely because it delivered a full, big-picture sound but because the source of that sound was not what I initially assumed upon entering.
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Asona Ltd / Distribution: Innuos, Fonica, Audio Analogue, Perreaux, Analysis Plus
Montreal Audiofest 2024
Robert Schryer  |  Mar 29, 2024  |  0 comments
The Innuos/Asona room showcased and AB-tested two network streamers for me: the flagship Pulsar and the Pulse.
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TAD Laboratories, Synergistic Research, Modulum, Jocavi
Montreal Audiofest 2024
Robert Schryer  |  Mar 29, 2024  |  0 comments
TAD was demonstrating a beefy all-TAD system, beefy in looks and sound. The result? As I listened, "An iron fist in a velvet glove" came to mind.
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Bliss Acoustics, AudioNec, Nagra, Gryphon Audio, Aurender, Playback Designs, Luna Cables, Computer Audio Design, Modulum Audio, Stillpoints
Montreal Audiofest 2024
Robert Schryer  |  Mar 28, 2024  |  1 comments
If the AudioNec Evo 3 speakers ($125,000/pair) in the top photo look familiar, it's no accident. They're from the same company that made the Evo 1 speakers in my last Luna Cables / Thöress report. But this time, they have three more modules, so the Evo 3 is much taller than the Evo 1.
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Emotiva
Montreal Audiofest 2024
Robert Schryer  |  Mar 27, 2024  |  1 comments

What can you get for $4750? A lot, apparently.

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Audio Note
Montreal Audiofest 2024
Robert Schryer  |  Mar 27, 2024  |  2 comments

Audio Note exhibiting at the Montreal audio show? Nothing new. Audio Note exhibiting an all-Audio Note system? Again, nothing new. Audio Note speakers that are not placed in the corners and are on tall stands? That's out of the ordinary.

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Hearken Audio: Reed, Trafomatic Audio, 432 EVO, Playback Designs, Yeti Acoustics, Stein Music, HRS, Stealth
Montreal Audiofest 2024
Robert Schryer  |  Mar 27, 2024  |  0 comments

Hearken Audio always comes to the Toronto and Montreal Audiofests with a trove of gear, much of it exotic to me either because I've never heard of it or rarely see it anywhere else. It is invariably intriguing from a purist-artisinal standpoint and usually superlative sounding.

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Brooklyn Audio, Soltanus Acoustics, Auralic, Zesto Audio, Synergistic Research, AudioQuest, Quadraspire
Montreal Audiofest 2024
Robert Schryer  |  Mar 27, 2024  |  1 comments

Soltanus Acoustics from Hungary and Brooklyn Audio from Nova Scotia [corrected] served up a seductive system consisting of a pair of electrostatic Soltanus Acoustics ESL Virtuoso Mkll speakers ($24,999/pair), an Auralic Aries G2.2 streamer ($8199), an Auralic Vega G2.2 DAC ($10,699), a Zesto Audio Leto Ultra Mkll preamplifier ($15,580), a mono/stereo Hegel H30A amplifier ($23,995), and a Synergistic Research router ($3000). Filling out the system were a variety of AudioQuest cables (various prices), an AudioQuest Niagara 5000 power conditioner ($7500), and a Quadraspire SVT audio rack ($3000).

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