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Southwest Audio Fest 2024 Hi-Fi Show
Report (Updated 03/17)
SWAF's 2024 high-performance premium audio event coverage.
The Southwest Audio Fest
(SWAF) arises from the partnership of Gary Gill (Capital Audiofest) and Lou Hinkley (Pacific
AudioFest / Daedalus Audio) and their success with the Pacific Audio Fest event, which is destined to be an annual event for high-end audio in the Pacific Northwest serving the entire Pacific
region. We are pleased to announce a new industry-operated show for another underserved part of the
country... the Southwest Audio Fest in Dallas in Texas.
The show promoters worked for over two years to secure a contract with an amazing event hotel,
which is very safe, family friendly, and great weather in March too!
Both Gary Gill and Lou Hinkley are confident that this show will grow and the Anatole has all the room
a premium audio event needs.
---> Southwest Audio Fest 2024 Hi-Fi Show Report.
Florida Intl. Audio Expo
2024 Show Report (Updated 03/18)
The Florida International Audio Expo was an incredible event
that featured many floors filled with an abundance of great sound, plus various exhibit room
featured never before seen new products! Show attendees were the
first to experience many of the best new high-performance audio products. With an outstanding 12 floors of demonstrations to explore,
music enthusiasts experienced luxurious premium audio amplification, loudspeakers,
digital audio / streamers, vinyl LP turntables, plus high-end audio headphones produced by manufacturers from all over the
world.
---> Florida International Audio Expo 2024
Show Report.
Hi-Fi+ March 2024 High-End
Audio Magazine
Editorial: Let's Talk About The Body Shop
Computer Audio Design £675 USB Control Giveaway
Magico M7 Floorstanding Loudspeaker
Aavik I-880 Integrated Amplifier
Technics SU-GX70 Integrated Networked Amplifier
McIntosh Audio Labs MA352 Hybrid Int. Amplifier
Fyne Audio F702SP Floorstanding Loudspeaker
Meze Empyrean II Headphones
Stillpoints Ultra ESS Equipment Support System
GIK Acoustics SlatFusor Room Acoustic Treatment
And Much More!
---> March 2024 Hi-Fi+ Magazine.
Exciting News: Florida International Audio Expo 2025
This just in from the Florida International Audio Expo: On the heels of its biggest
FIAE 2024 show to date, the Florida International Audio Expo is pleased to announce date and venue changes for next
year's show, to take place Friday through Sunday, February 21st through 23rd at the Sheraton Tampa Brandon
Hotel. "We've had a tremendous run with the Embassy Suites, and we appreciate their taking a chance with us as a new show in 2018, coupled with the unique challenges of hosting an audio
show," said Managing Partner Bart Andeer. "There aren't many venues that want to deal with such an event, and the team at Embassy Suites did a wonderful job of accommodating us as best they could. But
we've steadily grown our attendee and exhibitor participation, and have simply outgrown that venue. Our new venue will offer more options for larger exhibitor spaces and a suitable marketplace area."
---> Exciting News: Florida International Audio Expo 2025.
Avantgarde Acoustic UNO SD Hornspeaker Review
The luckiest I've ever felt was when reviewing the UNO SD speakers.
Review By Tom Lyle
In the mid to late 1990s, I heard
a pair of Avantgarde Acoustic horn loudspeakers (hornspeaker) for the first time at a local high-end audio
showroom. I don’t remember the model of the speakers I was hearing, but I do
recall that they were powered by a pair of Single-Ended Triode (SET) monoblock
amplifiers. I assumed that these amps were a perfect match for these sensitive
speakers. Sadly, I was not impressed with what I heard that day. The
speaker's biggest sin was an exaggerated midrange, epitomizing the "cupped
hands" sound. Fast-forward to 2024, when I was offered a pair of Avantgarde
UNO SDs for review in Enjoy the Music.com. I was skeptical, fearing I
would experience something similar to what I had heard at that local dealer many
years ago. Before these speakers arrived, I shared my experience with
Avantgarde's North American distributor, American Sound of Canada, about my
experience with their horn speakers.
--->
Avantgarde Acoustic UNO SD Hornspeaker Review.
Eminent Technology LFT8c Loudspeaker Review
Dipole done well.
Review By Jules Coleman
If you are not familiar with Bruce Thigpen,
it's time you were. Bruce has been among the more creative and innovative designers in the audio industry over the past forty years. He began his career by working on what was to become the Infinity turntable, which he followed with the classic and much-admired ET 2 linear tracking tonearm (parts and updates are still available for the model 1, ET-2 and ET- 2.5), before turning his attention to magnetic planar loudspeakers. Beginning with the full-range planar LFT3, he ultimately shifted focus to hybrid designs featuring planar mid and high-frequency drivers mated with traditional cone drivers to handle the lower frequencies. The shift in focus led to the development of the LFT-8 introduced in 1989 and then widely distributed beginning in 1990, the transformative version of which, LFT-8c, is the subject of this
review.
--->
Eminent Technology LFT8c Loudspeaker Review.
Vinshine Audio Denafrips Arce Hi-Res Music
Streamer Review
Streams music without obstructions or interfering with your favorite tunes.
Review By Neven Kos Of HiFiMedia
After Alvin Chee, the owner of the company
Vinshine Audio,
searched for the past year and a half on his YouTube channel for the best
streamer for Denafrips D/A converters, Denafrips introduced its music streamer
called Arce (twin sister of the rainbow goddess Iris in Greek mythology). The
primary focus in the design of this streamer was the quality of playback, so at
Denafrips they developed their computer platform instead of resorting to
existing ones, such as PC platform, Raspberry Pi, or something else already
existing. The computer part of the streamer is based on the Quad-Core
ARM Cortex processor, high-precision oscillators, and a power supply built after
the 60VA toroidal transformer. There are also low-noise and fast linear
regulators, and unlike many others that resort to existing and available
solutions or use standard computer solutions and operating systems, Denafrips
has also developed its operating system optimized precisely for music playback.
--->
Vinshine Audio Denafrips Arce Hi-Res Music Streamer Review.
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