Capital Audiofest

Dealer Now Listen Here has two locations—Harrisburg, PA and Falls Church, VA—and they’ll be showing a bevy of new gear at CAF 2024 in two rooms.

With the Capital Audiofest just days away—November 8-10—the itch for the new gets itchier.

Forté Distribution, the exclusive US distributor for Eversolo, will be bringing that company’s new flagship DMP-A10 Streaming DAC/DDC/Preamp to CAF for its US debut.

I’ve seen photos of the sand cast aluminum and bronze clad Galle DAC from Portugal’s Cinnamon Audio that certainly grabbed my (aesthetic) attention.

If you read my recent review of the QLN Reference 9 loudspeakers or their Prestige 5 (review), you know I enjoyed both. A lot.

I always enjoy me some Harbeth.

If you’ve never experienced a Zu room at a hifi show, you don’t know what you’re missing.

Canadian manufacturer MACO Sound Bootique  will be playing their MACARIA Open Baffle Speakers in two rooms at the upcoming Capital Audiofest.

Greg Roberts and his Volti Audio horn-loaded loudspeakers have been a permanent fixture at Capital Audiofests years past.

Broomall, PA-based dealer The Voice That Is will be bringing a room full of high-end to Capital Audiofest 2024, setting up shop for the weekend in their usual room, the Wilson.

Here are a few of my favorite rooms from CAF 2023, rooms that stood out because they made me connect to the music being made even in the less than good, forget about ideal, conditions of a hifi show.

You’re wonderful to see, You oughta be in pictures, Oh, what a hit you would be.

I knew a guy, a reviewer, who walked into a room at a hifi shop, sat in front a system he’d never heard before and within moments turned to me and said, “Great phono stage.”