Montreal Audiofest 2024: Best Rooms And Honorable Mentions
Rick Becker picks his Best Rooms at Montreal Audiofest 2024.
Montreal Audiofest 2024 Show Report By Rick Becker

  The playing field at audio shows is never level. The room itself can make a huge difference as was notably evident to me this year. And mishaps can happen. A piece of music might be playing that doesn't show off the greatest strengths of a system. After 286 photos and over 17k babbling words, out of 66 rooms it came down to six I thought were outstanding and another nine I could live very happily with... plus another couple if headphones were my destiny.

The Best Rooms did not all sound alike, but they were all very impressive in achieving what they set out to do. Hopefully, in attending the show the visitors will have tuned their listening skills a bit further and identified what is realistically achievable for their own listening pleasure.

Honorable Mentions
First up are the Honorable Mentions, as these are outstanding rooms which deserve special recognition for their excellence here at the Montreal Audiofest 2024.

Luna Cables, The Wand, Thoress, And Wattson Audio (Part 1, room 1215)

Brooklyn Audio, AURLiC, And Soltanus Acoustics (Part 1, room 1231)

Brosseau.ca (Part 2, room 1306)

Atelier Audio (Part 2, room 1326)

Filtronique Son-or (Part 4, room 2414)

Audio Note UK (Part 4, room 2419)

Cabasse (Part 6)

Focal-Naim (Part 6, Montreal 4)
Note: For both the big system and the new Aria Evo X No.3 with Naim Uniti Star.

Bryston (Part 7, Outremont 2)

---> Onward To The Best Of Montreal Audiofest 2024 Blue Note Awards.