Part 8: Capital Audiofest 2024 Large Rooms Part 1
Lovely sounds at CAF 2024's large exhibit rooms.
Capital Audiofest 2024 Show Report By Rick Becker

Roosevelt   Atma-Sphere And Classic Audio Loudspeakers
The Roosevelt room was another of those rooms that looked about the same with its big horn speakers driven by tube amps and banners from Classic Audio Loudspeakers, Tri-Planar Tonearms, Purest Audio Design cables, Extent driver fasteners, and Atma-Sphere tube electronics. Even the statues of Nipper and the parrots were the same. I also ran into my acquaintance from Brooklyn, Joe, who is a retired postal worker and master machinist. Joe is one of those guys that can look at something and say "I can make one of those" – and he really can. Maybe you've seen his YouTube where he shows off the huge horn speakers he built from scratch.

Gorgeous woodwork on these Classic Audio Loudspeakers, and beautiful, dynamic music with only a few Watts driving them.

This tube amp appeared to be a working prototype.

And here are the specs for this 300B push-pull monoblock.

A Van den Hul cartridge was mounted on the Tri-Planar tonearm and I noted the tiny bubble level on the headshell in addition to one on the turntable itself. Something new to try!

Moving on, I ran the gauntlet of audio banners toward the two VPI rooms but first stopped in to see the Gershman Acoustics room.

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