AXPONA 2025 Highlights, Must-See Audiophile Innovations, And Top High-End Audio Trends
12th And 14th Floors: Schaumburg's annual high-end audio event for USA audiophiles.
Audio Expo North America (AXPONA) 2025 Show Report By Rick Becker

1244  Playback Distribution, Advance Paris, PMC, Esprit, And Quadraspire
The room list for 1244 does not correlate with the brands in the program, which required much effort on my part to sort out with my photos.

According to the room list, this room had the Esoteric gear in the photo above, along with an Amphion speaker from Finland that I would normally have paid attention to.

1245  Playback Distribution, Advance Paris, Esprit, And Quadraspire
This room list also does not correlate with the brands listed in the program — last-minute changes, I guess.

This was the Java HiFi integrated with the carbon fiber chassis, though you could hardly tell in the darkened room.

The Vienna Acoustic Liszt Reference speaker had a mid/tweeter coaxial driver mounted in the upper cabinet, able to swivel to adjust treble response and presence of the music, while the omni-directional bass drivers fire straight ahead. This configuration came out many years ago in their flagship Klimt Series, with The Music (model), a floorstander that offered not only horizontal adjustment, but also vertical adjustment for the mid/tweeter module so you could aim it downward toward a seated position. It was quite novel at the time, and The Klimt Series is still in production today.

That's A Wrap Here At AXPONA 2025 Audiophile Show
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