Here’s even more gear that will be making its US debut at CAF 2026.
Norway’s Arendal Sound will be showcasing three new Wood Editions for its flagship 1528 Series loudspeakers the 1528 Tower 8 and Bookshelf 8—”in limited quantities, on a first-come, first-served basis”—in Room 855 at CAF 2026. Wood finish options include Smoked Eucalyptus, Walnut, and Dark Walnut and bring the price of the Tower 8 to $15,999/pair and the Bookshelf 8 to $7499/pair.
In typical CAF fashion, Triode Wire Labs will be sharing Room 316 with Gary Dews of BorderPatrol Audio that will include the debut of the new BorderPatrol BRIO DAC ($1995 with a special introductory price of $1675 through November 2026) that replaces the much loved DAC SE that I reviewed way back in 2019. The non-oversampling Brio DAC uses the TDA1543 chip while doing without a digital reconstruction filter or op-amp output buffer and adds hybrid tube/solid-state rectification.
2WA Group, founded by Co-Managing Directors Walter Schofield and Walter Swanbon, will be showcasing a trio of England’s Lockwood Speakers in Room 628 including the Mini, Stanley 2, and the stately Academy 1.
The new Symphoria loudspeakers from Gershman Acoustics will be playing in the Madison Room along with LampizatOr, Cardas Audio, and Pass Labs at CAF 2026. The Symphoria’s “tweeter and midrange float in their own module, isolated from the bass cabinet, and our patented Bass Trap redirects each woofer’s back wave so it loses its energy.”
Genesis Advanced Technologies have announced their new Hyper TianDi Loudspeakers ($39,800/pair) made in collaboration with Hyper Analogue Production of Hong Kong which will make their debut in the Frederick Room hosted by NJ dealer Distinctive Stereo. The 5-way full-range Hyper TianDi sport “two Genesis planar magnetic ring-radiator ribbon tweeters (front and back), a single 3.5-inch solid Titanium-cone midrange driver, two 6.5-inch aluminum mid-bass couplers, and four 8-inch woofers in isobaric configuration”.
The new teardrop-shaped Allegro turntable ($9,495 w/o tonearm) from Canada’s Pure Fidelity comes finished in Bird’s Eye Maple or a Walnut Burl and you catch it live in Room 319, a room hosted by dealer Now Listen Here.
Long Valley, NJ-based distributor GTT Audio has a pair of products from Canada’s Master Fidelity making their US debut in Room 711—the Master Fidelity NADAC S music server and the NADAC L line stage along with the Master Fidelity NADAC D converter, NADAC C master clock, 4 Mola Mola Ossetra monoblock amplifiers bi-amping Vivid Audio GIYA G2 Cu loudspeakers (in Porsche Yachting Blue) with Ovation cables and XPander 2 power distribution from Kubala-Sosna Research, and the DeJitter It Switch X (double stack) and WiFi X.
MoFi Distribution will be offering a trio of debuts in Room 825—the Diapason Adamantes V Monitor ($10,000/pair) powered by the Wolfram Electric I-200 integrated amplifier ($14,800) that puts out 20 Class A Watts from a pair of 6C33Cs, and the lovely looking Etsuro Urushi Gin-nezu MC Cartridge ($2,400) mounted on a Thorens TD 124.
I still think about the Atoll SDA300 streaming Integrated Amplifier I reviewed back in 2024 which I called “Rich, refined, and deeply rewarding.” For CAF 2026, US Distributor Audio Excellent will debut Atoll’s new flagship integrated amplifier, the IN800 Evo (starts at $16,000), that pumps out 350 Watts per channel into 8 ohms. The IN800EVO “combines ATOLL’s high-end preamplifier and two bridged mono amplifier designs in one chassis, with optional DA800 DAC and P800 MM/MC phono boards for expanded digital and vinyl connectivity.”
Making its North American debut in Room 308 along with Gestalt Audio are the Camerton Audio Binom-1.2 loudspeakers, a single driver design using the company’s Binom-A wideband flat diaphragm driver, paired with the North American debut of the SW1X Audio Design MPA V Atlas mono amplifiers—”Pure Class A, Interstage Transformer coupled, Zero Negative Feedback, Directly Heated Triode, Fully Valve Rectified, Push Pull, 3 Gain Stage, Mono Power Amplifier.”