5 thoughts on “New York Audio Show 2014

  • Joe Whip

    Great seeing you again on Friday Mark. Even with the technical glitches, your presentation that evening was very informative. I will have to download the Latin Jazz recording soon!

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  • Fernando Clemente

    Susan and I wanted to thank you for your time yesterday at the show. It was great to meet you in person and we hope you had a good flight back to LA. The show was good and seemed well attended. Sony’s portable player is very attractive, a mighty player in such small size. I was disappointed on Sony’s MDR-1R headphones though. I was really looking forward to listening to those given that they conform with the Hi-Res Audio specs. However, I found the bass boomy and lacking in detail, which detracted from the sound of the higher frequencies too. Then again, like you, I’m not really a headphone person.

    After the show, we couldn’t wait to get home and play Albert Lee’s bluray. That was a lot of fun. The performances were very engaging and your mixes are of course excellent. Today, we played Anita Chang’s DVD-A of Chopin’s Ballads. This one is fantastic. I would lie if I say I haven’t heard a piano sounding like that before, but certainly I had not heard a recording of a piano sounding like that before. Neither of these two discs are going to be picking up dust from our shelves, they will surely be enjoyed many times.

    The 2013 AIX records sampler bluray, unfortunately, did not play on our player. Our bluray player is a bit old at this point, it may be time to start looking into an Oppo.

    Cheers!

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    • Admin

      Fernando, send along your address and I will get you a Blu-ray disc that I check out here.

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  • lazy

    Great to hear the show went reasonably well for you! Your comments on the Walkman are interesting. FWIW, even if it sounds better than a smartphone playback, that wouldn’t be enough to compel me to get this as a separate player.

    But for the win, the following attributes would compel me to get a dedicated portable player: Smyth Realiser tech, and user-selectable dynamic range compression built into the player. And still have at least 256GB of solid state storage and at least 10 hours of battery life.

    I think such a device would really help make your music “shine” in a portable environment compared to other recordings, in a manner that anyone would readily appreciate. Perhaps you play the role of matchmaker and chat up the likes of Smyth, A&K, Fiio, Sony or Pono to develop the next gen HRA portable player that has the attributes above. And if you can’t get one of these companies to lead but a few are willing to follow as suppliers, why not try a kickstarter of your own in cooperation with a few of the above? What Neil Young has done so far isn’t rocket science…

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    • Admin

      Thanks…interesting.

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