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Super Tweeters from Trenner and Friedl.

Another Profundo room with Mach2 Music's Mac Mini..

Trenner & Friedl Duke 2 loudspeakers. Wowzers....

These loudspeakers from Trenner & Friedl sounded amazing.

Jeff Rowland Design with the beautiful Trenner & Friedl loudspeakers.

Mach2 Music had their Mac Minis in several rooms... all tweaked and ready to go for $1500 or so.

The Stahl-Tek DAC in the Purist Audio room...

The Purist Audio room with a smarting of offerings from their extensive line of killer products.

Jack Bybee of Bybee Electronics.

Amarra had a display booth.

Ultra Systems brought the whole store... great stuff.

Bogdan Audio Creations, Trueharmonix, Densen USA, and Tara Labs.

Another view of the room.

Chapman Speakers showed with Cary Audio and MIT Cables. The SLP-05 is to the right there... yeah, I own one just like it!

Stuart Jones of Chapman Speakers, and Andrew Staub of Michael Green Audio.

Chapman Speakers with Cary Audio.

The Chapman system sounded great.

Demian Martin, wearing a new hat with Auraliti. He is though still with Monster!

Auraliti, high resolution file playback, simplified. Supports FLAC, WAV, AIFF. Retails for $2995.

Berkeley Audio Design, Alpha DAC.

Berkeley Audio and Auraliti.

Solos Audio Soniccraft Opus power amplifiers and Magico loudspeakers.

Solos Emille Quintessence preamplifier, Emille Rapture monoblock amplifiers, and B&W loudspeakers.

Silicon Arts Design room featured Kaiser Kawero loudspeakers, Concert Fidelity phonostage and preamplifier, Silicon Arts Design amplifiers, Fono Acustica cables, Stillpoints stands, Esoteric CD player, and Denon turntable.

The Silicon Arts Design room also included a desktop system .

Very nice sounding system from Silcon Arts Design.

Audience showed a new loudspeaker, the ONE ClairAudient loudspeaker for $995. Wow, these really filled the room and with only one driver... cool stuff!

Audience desktop system with the ONE loudspeakers, Virtue and Arcam. All cables by Audience.

John McDonald of Audience.

Earo High Definition Audio.

Benchmark DACs and preamplifiers.

Benchmark and Studio Electric. This room really played well musically. Great combination as always.

Sean Casey from Zu Audio. These guys so get what is needed I wish we could bottle them up and toss them around.

Zu loudspeakers, the new Dominance loudspeaker, in the rear, will be available in March. These are in some respects, sonically a move away from what Zu has offered before. Warmer, richer, tonally fuller with deep and powerful bass... the good Zu stuff is still there. Presence, clarity... nice!

The Dominance, a statement loudspeaker from Zu.

These loudspeakers are impressive to behold.

The Zu Dominance.

Sean and Chuck Williams.

We liked Zu so much we went back twice. Peter wanted to check out the sound.

Peter and Sean, chatting about music.

Zu Soul Superfly loudspeakers. These are wonderfully musical and offer so much for so little. Killer sound in all respects... and they donated an unfinished pair to our school for the students to paint after which Zu will finish them up and when combined with the Bel Canto integrated, our school is rocking! A great company who is reaching out to the world and offering great sound at wonderfully affordable prices. And heck, the stuff is built here in the States and to a level that anyone would be proud of.

The Zu Omen. Nice.

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