Nothing changed since i talked to you in the hallway.
was fresh on my mind then, but let's see what i can remember...
"Overall sound quality," "musicality" (which as deb sez, means nothing, other than a word to describe what someone subjectively likes, and can't explain coherently in "real" objective terms...) would have to be High Water Sound.
I thought that room had "it" going on much more than any other;
hard to listen to the gear, i kept relaxing & enjoying the music...
Amberwave's 304TL amp, looks pretty cool, merc vapor & transmitter triodes, pretty good sound for a PP, although I do like the 304TL SET breadboard i've heard before better.
Eleven horn display in the lobby (but i'm biased on that one).
Experience Music phono stage-- He already made my favorite phono stage, but the new "box" is just so over the top.
Walker turntable; beautiful piece, I feel a lot better than the amps/speakers used.
Played a Mahler piece i brought, some pieces were "missing" compared to what i'm used to @ home, but some parts were just "better" too.
As Deb said, it was the first time she heard something where you could tell where the limitations were.
Galibier room comparison; as above, and i really liked a couple of the LPs Frank brought/played during the comparison Sat night.
Artemis room; again, Very impressed w/ turntable (and big time on the last day, w/ dave's experimental field coil cartridge!), but the speakers-- I dunno?
Tape-- deHavilland room, the comparison of tape to cd...
Yeah, i agree that there's as big a jump up from vinyl to tape, as there is from cd to vinyl.