Athens 2014: The Cabasse Ocean
Between 2005 and 2006 Cabasse released a couple of AES papers describing multiple co-axial driver speaker systems. The first real world application of those studies was the “Sphere” and the slightly...
View ArticleAthens 2014: Jadis, the French Rolls Royce
One of the most interesting rooms in the Athens 2014 show was without doubt the Jadis, paired with Genesis 5.3 speakers. These speakers have the looks of being somewhere in between the insensible and...
View ArticleAthens 2014: High-stakes poker with the Tidal-MSB system
While I was enjoying the Athens show, my editor Scot was publishing a mini review of a full TIDAL Audio system with Contriva Diacera SE speakers (SE stands for “Special Edition”) paired with the Preos...
View ArticleAthens 2014: The eyeball magnet, aka, MBL
If you like visiting audio shows (and since you are reading this chances are you like it as much as I do) then you must have noticed that on every show the German high-end company [...]
View ArticleAthens 2014: Wilson Audio Sasha II dancing with the Devi(a)l(et)
If there is one speaker that made Wilson Audio famous among audiophiles for delivering best bang for the buck in the almost affordable high-end range and has seen the most evolutions in the company’s...
View ArticleAthens 2014: Big, dazzling horns from Tune Audio
One of the few local, truly high-end brands, Tune Audio brought the big Anima speakers to the show. These three-way, all passive horn loaded speakers have been turning heads for some time now in Munich...
View ArticleAthens 2014: PMC speakers is recipe for good sound
In my opinion, a simple recipe for good sound is a three way speaker with a great mid-range driver, an amplifier capable of driving the aforementioned speaker with ease, and a good source that will...
View ArticleAthens 2014: Joseph Audio Pulsar and Enigmacoustics M1 Mythology, the mini...
Though most of the audio show visitors seek the big mighty high-end systems, the ones most of us only dream of, there is another class of products that merits attention: the high-end compact monitor....
View ArticleAthens 2014: Zellaton, Gryphon and CH Precision
Sometimes delivering is just not enough, you need a story, and Zellaton surely has one. The company’s origins date back in the thirties, when Dr Emile Podszus introduced a series of technological...
View ArticleAthens 2014: Not Best In Show
The 2014 Sound and Vision show held in Athens has come to an end. A biggy this year, more than 65 rooms and halls with just two days’ time to listen, explore, and digest lots [...]
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