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Mikey looks like The Godfather and Jay his bouncer. 😅

Thanks for both of you for all the hard work and great content you put together and separately. It's so nice to see to different approaches to audio but equally important.

You and Mikey are the best. Thanks for taking along…. Great reviews

Voxativ was THE ROOM at highend 2022 to me too, together with that tube amp, fantastic. I was there for some hrs and at the next show in Neuss again, love their sound, their presentation and room runners where the most friendly or I should say "most into music". Speaker design also absolutely great, loved them. In the end even the cheaper version of the Voxativ, with 16k was way to expensive to the Magnepan 1.7i so I ended up with them in my PC room. Instead of the 9.88 I ended with the PSaudio FR30 for the living room, ~half the price and the FR30 are fantastic, totally love them in every way. Sound for music and big sound movies together with the design, best product to me on the market when I consider these 3 factors. Oh and the Fink Team speakers were great, did listen to both at a dealer showroom for many hours. Did prefer the Borg by far, the base was not so direct or pushed forward with them, much more easy and enjoyable to me. Design did it mostly for me why I did continue to check for other speakers

That's the beauty of todays High End Audio's speakers and electronics, you can achieve superb sound quality presentations from relatively affordable to extreme price points. Ain't life grand!!! Thanks guys.

whateva! The VPI room did have a McIntosh room correction system. I will agree it was more chill than AXPONA.

Love that you mentioned the borresen x3… they were my favorite of the show.

Mac helped make the High-end industry. We all owe a lot to Mac and a lot of older brands. So please respect the companies that built and supported the industry. Thank You 😊👍

Did they have the highly raved Ferguson Hill FH001E Open Baffle Horns at this show? Was the all new JERN 35 Monitors there? They have Dealers in the USA now

Another informative video..great job...definitely took the info to heart

Jay, this was a very good review of show! I was there with my brother on Saturday and we saw you sitting right in front of us while listening to the white Acora Acoustics speakers. I was gonna say what's up, but didn't want to interrupt the listening session. I met you at the 2021 Capital Audiofest with my cousin, so we'll see you in 2023! Anyway, I have learned that the $20k and below speakers can perform ridiculously if you're willing to pair them with good electronics, as you guys confirmed. Some don't believe in buying a preamp/amp that cost more than the speakers, I'm good with that approach because I've done it and my speakers smoked due to the high quality electronics. I just sold my Spatial Audio X5 speakers because I prefer their fully passive X4 models. My X5s had built-in subwoofers and didn't like that hybrid implementation, although they sounded good. That said, the Spatial Audio X Series have an open baffle AMT driver and it is serious business as you guys mentioned a few speakers in the video that had nice presentations with that AMT driver. Lastly, I wanted to holla at OCD Mikey at the show, but he was glued to his cell phone, so I didn't approach him. Lol.... Peace!

Looks like Jay does curls with Gryphon's too...

Great stuff guys. Thanks!

I wonder if the Creek gear in the FinkTeam room deserves more praise too?

Well done. Thank you

Love seeing these two together

Very nice wrap up Jay and Mikey, you two are magical together and play off of each other very well. Seriously Mikey is doing it for 150,000 man, I thought his system based off the Dac alone was at least 250,000. For the league Mikey is playing in and as a dealer, hats off Mikey!!! Yes, I know this is still expensive guys, but my dealers system with Vandersteen or Sonus Faber top components, Audio Research stuff is way over 150,000 and as Jay said his system is way over 150,000. I’m not saying anyone has to spend this, but I have to give Mikey his props for this because at any of these shows, you can easily go over 150,000 in amplification or speakers alone. I also know audio can be had much, much less as well, under 20,000, under 10,000 and heck some are doing it under 2,500 and even under 500, but Mikey has the connections and can have whatever he wants, he has heard practically everything, he has been to practically all of these shows, knows most of these dealers as a dealer and he can sell whatever brand he wants. I have talked to Mikey personally and he knows his stuff.

Jay, I know your mission was to list speakers below $20,000. But it would have been nice to see your ranking of the best overall systems regardless of price. It could be a different video from this one. So, you’d have an affordable ranking and a cost-no-object ranking. The latter would give an indication of what’s out there whether they are affordable or not.

Klipsch forte 3 Bang for the buck

Did you say the Borresens we're running on a $7K integrated?

Really like sound of those white granite acora speakers (val). with that new soft dome twitters what do you think?? sounded really good got to go to show axpona in April

I saw all those rooms and agree with your assessments , great show with different stuff than the usual.

Mikey has a Johnny Depp Look to him here!🤔😬

AMT always the best. "sound as clear as light"

Gryphon demoed the apex and the commander (with raidho speakers) the last weekend with Rune of gryphon presenting in the Philippine audio hifi show (same time as the capital audiofest). I heard it was amazing!

That particular Acora Comes with a soft dome no other options the rest have hard dome tweeters

The fink team speakers is amazing. Heard therm here. In my room it had very good bass extension. Fat and fast.

Nice to listen a room that we enjoy...cool..

Like i sad before. Europe manufacture have some great stuff

Is it possible that wolfvonlanga & Fink Team use the same AMT tweeter from Mundorf/Germany? That would explain that crystal clear beautiful sounding top end?!?!

Tubes and horns

Unfortunately Mikey wasn‘t allowed to finish mentioning his other products also 😉 would have been interesting. Thanks for great coverage Jay & Mikey

Nice work yall. Two big you tubers.

Hope to attend next year and hear the new Janszens, but the roughly $12,750 Janszen A8s (with built in amp/DACs) were my favorite of the show in 2019 and struck me as a crazy good value compared to everything I heard. I can't imagine how good this new model sounds. Glad David is getting some well deserved praise this year.

great seeing you both good video

Hi Jay, Which Creek Audio Integrated and DAC was in the FinkTeam room with those small speakers?

Jay you should get the new Hegel P30A and 2 x H30A poweramps.

You guys banging it, that's Hi-Fi to me.

Thanks you...

Nice video from both of you

Hopefully, the luv ❤️ continues Lord knows we are all biased 🙏

Another reason why I liked the Vandersteen room was that not only for listening nirvana , was they were the only speaker company that showed all the important measurements for a properly designed speaker they showed me the step response for phase accuracy, the waterfall plot response showing speaker distortion and the impedance response for amplifier load. Not one other speaker manufacturer had the balls to show these measurements which makes me wonder, what are they afraid of. THE TRUTH.

Mikeys in the german sound mood, next stop some german bands: Hundreds, Nils Frahm, Bohren und der Club of Gore, Kraan, ...

My two favorite guys!!!

Hey Jay! Check out some coverage from the Toronto AudioFest, big well attended show, we (Sonic Artistry) did show with darTZeel. I cannot comment on the US market. In Canada we do show darTZeel at the shows. I do know that darTZeel does show at Munich and come with the big guns. I'd love to see you attend Munich and work your show review magic!

It was a GREAT show, but what about the Vandersteens, OCD?

I want a Jay's Arm Routine video!!!!! Damn man lookin' good!

When do you call $20,000 speakers affordable?

Jay I didn't like your picks. The best room was the Vandersteen Kento room. The truth is in the listening.

My Legacy Focus SE uses the air motion tweeters and are the best tweeters I ever heard OCD Mikey is correct on them. Some guy has a channel called poor man audio or something went to this show and cut down speakers and one he cut down was Legacy Audio. hahahahahha what a joke! My speaker the Legacy Focus SE WON MANY MANY AWARDS and that guy thinks he knows more saying they had sibilance and bullshit like that, NOT! I will put my Legacy Focus SE against many speakers 3 times the cost. One of the things Legacy does do "which I do not like is they like to set up various models of speakers and systems in one large room. I encourage that guy to go to a smaller more real world size room and listen to the Focus SE powered by the IV 2 Legacy amp which I have. If he still thinks they sound not good he needs a new set of ears. Btw I have yet to hear a better speaker in the bottom end anywhere near their price and even three times above.

Think of it:Maybe DartZeel dont need al this marketing,they dont need the -shows-its there image.Its shure you dont like tubes you found there sound to soft on the edges wich its true,im a tube 300B guy but,Jay but i also like solid state i dont hate it,i like Spectral and Soulution,i als dont grave -one-sound only,i like a warm sound but i also like the colder sound by Soulution.

Jay. Someone is trying to scam your viewer's.

While some are forced due to income restraints or financial capacity to have lower cost systems others have much much higher cost systems and everything in between. For myself, I can readily discern differences of distortion and sound quality so for myself 2nd rate or worse won't cut it for me. Not a chance. In fact most systems to me have the ear feel of being wholly synthetic and worse yet don't have to be, as so many could be fixed to various extents. This Falseness is highly grating and irritating. With audio reproduction systems that truly honor ULTRA LOW forms of distortion even the most rotten of recordings through this chain of custody of ultra low distortions can in a whacked out way be interesting to listen to and experience the engagement of unraveling how poorly the event was captured and converted.

I can't stand OCD.

OCD Guy looks aloof and austere. I prefer audiophiles to look scruffy, dishevelled with a mad look in their eyes.