Axpona

I count at least 10 premiers from Playback Distribution for Axpona 2025.

Fidelity Imports will be hosting 9 rooms (!) on the 12th floor plus the Utopia D Ballroom for Axpona 2025.

Accuphase, Air Tight, Gauder Akistik, Soulution, Yukiseimitsu, Transrotor and more. (yum x6)

Horns, tubes, and records.

I received an email from Fern & Roby’s Christopher Hildebrand that was short and sweet, “Here is our newest product that we will be showcasing in Chicago.”

I admit I don’t know two things about this post’s title: a) What the Ø Audio Icon 12 speakers sound like and b) how to pronounce Ø Audio. Ooh? Aah? Err? Urr?

I reported on the release of Dynaudio’s new Contour 20 Black Edition and Confidence 20A Loudspeakers last month which will be making their North American public show premiers at Axpona 2025.

Aliso Viejo, California-based ampsandsound are bringing their new Black Pearl XL SE amplifier ($19,000), Sasquatch speakers ($17,000/pair), and the OJAS DL-103o cartridge ($550) to Axpona 2025.

The LCR Phono from Treehaus Audiolab uses passive RIAA eq and an all-tube circuit to pre-amplify the signal from your MM or MC cartridge.

If a Martian, stick with me, attended a hifi show for the first time and reported back to the mother ship, they might conclude that we, as a planet, have but a few songs.

3 days, 200 listening rooms, 9,000+ attendees, 600+ high-end audio brands, 445 photos.

DeVore Fidelity O/bronze + Komuro K300S Stereo Amplifier + spinning 78s = hifi heaven.

I bet you saw this one coming from a mile away.

I first met Tone Imports proprietor Jonathan Halpern long before I started writing about hifi while he was working at NYC dealer In Living Stereo and just beginning to import the exquisite gear from Japan’s Shindo Laboratory.