Met Nemo in the hall and chatted for a while. Coolest cat you’ll ever meet. Then hung out with him a bit that night with the ABX crew. Totally rad. He’s a legit cool dude. Thanks, man!
This is the best video of a stereo show event, that I felt I was there. Thanks! I've always thought that videos by other youtubers of show events were boring.
Well that explains why I didn't run into you on floors 3-6 yesterday 😂 Definitely check out the Dayton Audio room, I was not expecting much, but I was pleasantly surprised.
Thanks for the video. Great to see all the new equipment. Reminds me of looking at the Sears toy catalog at Christmas when I was a kid. I want it all! To answer your question, enter the dragon but not in my room.
Great video as always Nemo! 🙌🏼. Please try and get the Cabasse powered speakers for review. I’d love to hear your thoughts on them. I know they’re not cheap but you save on the other components and those little things are supposed to sound massive for their size and go down to 30Hz! Love what you do 👍🏼
BOSS !!! .... It was SO great hanging with you during the weekend... By far the best experience aside from hifi. A complete honour, sir. I hope to see ya out there again.
@NemoPropaganda ... Humble, yes... but FAR from a statistical Normal .. You present with a lot of integrity and thoughtfulness.. which is FAR more than I can say for even some of the nearest to our hobby. Thank you again.
Thank you for mentioning my speakers - the MLTL-6 stand mount are either DIY, or finished - build manual is $100 and flat packs are available soon at $350 plus shipping. Completed pairs with the soft dome tweeters I am planning on selling for $2500/pr plus delivery.
Have you been to the Magnepan room yet? My buddy got a call from a friend of his that is there at Axpona, and he was raving about the LRS+ speakers. I just set mine up today, and they are incredible. I cannot believe these only cost $1100 delivered direct from Magnepan. They are cleaning the floor with my Zu's right now... Poor Zu's. 😞
May I ask what Zu speakers you have? I was thinking about getting some. What do you like so much about the magnepans? Also does it offer any bass at all or you absolutely have to have a sub? And one last question. How far from the back wall do you pull yours out? Thanks and appreciate your response if you have the time. Have a great one. .
@@user-zx6oc3bi3b I have the Zu DW6 Supremes in triple black, and they look sexy. They also sound fantastic. Then the LRS+ entered the room. The LRS+ were a bit harsh at first, but after an hour or so they started loosening up and really sounding phenomenal. Yes, better than the Zu's. The way the LRS+ handle the midrange and top end is hard to explain when comparing to the Zu's. The Maggies have a more natural presentation vs sound from a box. Just a better overall listening experience. The bass... The LRS+, at least in my room, have plenty of bass, if not too much. I used the Rolls SX45 active crossover to shift the low end off to my subs. The crossover really opened up the LRS+ speakers, they really opened up, and the extra stress of the low end was shifted away from the amplifier and off to the subs. I would recommend at least one sub with these speakers. The REL T-Zero Mark III seems very popular, I have a pair on the way. I have mine out around five feet into the room. I went to Amazon and spent $20 ea for flat panel TV stand legs. They bolted right up and look very much like the $300 ones Maggie sells. I would recommend getting a pair, they look factory and you can adjust the height of the speaker with ease. And they hold the speakers vertical. Worth the $40. I started off running these LRS+ on my Fosi ZA3 amp. The ZA3 did not even break a sweat and drove the Maggies with ease. But, they sounded a bit 2 dimensional, so I dragged out my old Emotiva XPA2, this is their first gen Class A/B amp and it sounded fantastic with the Maggies. I would say look for an amp, Class A/B that is at least 100 wpc, and use the Rolls SX45 crossover along with a sub like the T-Zero, just to relieve the stress on your amplifier. I do not believe this crossover will work with an integrated amp, so you will need separates, DAC, Preamp and amplifier. For $1000, I would not pass these up. They easily surpass my Zu's, and those were roughly $2800 delivered. I could have more or less bought three pairs of the Maggies vs one pair of Zu's. And I am a serious Zu fanboy.
@@NemoPropaganda My buddy found a pair of demos locally, he is picking them up on Tuesday... He heard my experience and is chomping at the bit. And he has owned a few Maggies in his journey, he simply cannot believe the price to sound ratio.
I must have just missed Nemo. Luckily, he had managed to get to a lot of the rooms that I had missed! But, we rarely have time to see and do everything at these shows. It also depends on who you end up running into at the show. Myself, I was concentrating on things that I feel are a good value, and in my price range or slightly above it. Like most technical people, I tend to be practical and don't really want to pay for audio jewelry or glitz. It was fun to hear things RUclipsrs had reviewed, and see if I had agreed with their impressions and comparisons.
I don't have any strong opinions on what I heard at the show, I was in and out of most rooms fairly quickly, filming all the rooms in 2 days is a serious challenge so if I had any left over time I used it to chat with people instead of listen to gear :)
As much as I love my Parasound 2125v2 for my GoldenEar BRX, I've upgraded to the NAD C298 (similar to NAD M23). My Parasound will be moved to powering the surround L/R speakers in a mixed use music/movies 7.4.4 setup. My requirements (
If I was Lu Kang Audio I would just be bumping "Techno Syndrome (Mortal Kombat Theme)" by The Immortals on a continuous loop in my room. "Test your might!"
I bought the plans and components for the Neil Blanchard Designs bookshelf speaker. I haven’t built them yet but I’m super excited to do it. FYI it’s about $100 for the plans, $300 or so for the components and then the cost of the wood to build them out.
I'm a few months away from having an Orchard review sampe, since the monoblocks are new I told the owner to please send out his review samples to the big channels first and send it to me last since my channel is small :)
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Ahhhhh, the smooth sweetness of Nemo's voice narrating Axpona. Stress just melts away
I'm just trying to be like Shane Lee, have you seen his content? Ultimate smooth voice!
@@NemoPropaganda yes I have, but prefer the baritone in your voice lol
Haha, agree. Nemo is going a bit ASMR.
Met Nemo in the hall and chatted for a while. Coolest cat you’ll ever meet. Then hung out with him a bit that night with the ABX crew. Totally rad. He’s a legit cool dude. Thanks, man!
hey what's up man, honestly the side coversations and chats are what I show up for, it's way more fun that looking at gear :)
Great video! Thanks for narrating and not going overboard like some other channels.
Hi bro, thank you for the kind words, always nice to hear from long time subscriber!! I think you've been on board pretty much since the begining :)
This is the best video of a stereo show event, that I felt I was there. Thanks!
I've always thought that videos by other youtubers of show events were boring.
This is the best overview video. You're a natural! Thanks for the time you spent putting this together.
Well that explains why I didn't run into you on floors 3-6 yesterday 😂
Definitely check out the Dayton Audio room, I was not expecting much, but I was pleasantly surprised.
I’ll mostly be on 1-6 today.
Very cool. Blows my mind how many obscenely rich audio nerds there must be to support all these super expensive brands.
Is there an income level where you stop liking music? Same thing with cars, boats, vacations, you name it.
I enjoyed both ur videos on Axpona 2024. Such a nice and kind voice!!
Great coverage!! 🙏 ❤
Your mind will be blown when you upgrade from bluesound node! Awesome video, dig the quick breakdown with lots of content 👌
This is a very good review of tons of gear. Congratulations!
Thanks Nemo. I like your calm and concise reporting.
Thanks for the video. Great to see all the new equipment. Reminds me of looking at the Sears toy catalog at Christmas when I was a kid. I want it all! To answer your question, enter the dragon but not in my room.
Bob Carver👍. I’m still running 80’s Carver gear in my system.
nice!
Great video. Loved the format.
Great video as always Nemo! 🙌🏼. Please try and get the Cabasse powered speakers for review. I’d love to hear your thoughts on them. I know they’re not cheap but you save on the other components and those little things are supposed to sound massive for their size and go down to 30Hz!
Love what you do 👍🏼
the price is high, maybe :)
Wow Nemo! Thanks for the tour. I live 350 miles from there and I’m definitely going next year. Have fun and be careful!
Thanks! look forward to seeing you next year!!
Nice to see gear for the common man
BOSS !!! .... It was SO great hanging with you during the weekend... By far the best experience aside from hifi.
A complete honour, sir. I hope to see ya out there again.
thank you for the kind words, I'm just a normal guy though :)
@NemoPropaganda ... Humble, yes... but FAR from a statistical Normal .. You present with a lot of integrity and thoughtfulness.. which is FAR more than I can say for even some of the nearest to our hobby.
Thank you again.
Amazing setup by Esoteric.❤
Thank you for mentioning my speakers - the MLTL-6 stand mount are either DIY, or finished - build manual is $100 and flat packs are available soon at $350 plus shipping. Completed pairs with the soft dome tweeters I am planning on selling for $2500/pr plus delivery.
Hey Neil, nice to meet ya! Those are very reasonable prices!!
Have you been to the Magnepan room yet? My buddy got a call from a friend of his that is there at Axpona, and he was raving about the LRS+ speakers. I just set mine up today, and they are incredible. I cannot believe these only cost $1100 delivered direct from Magnepan. They are cleaning the floor with my Zu's right now... Poor Zu's. 😞
May I ask what Zu speakers you have? I was thinking about getting some. What do you like so much about the magnepans? Also does it offer any bass at all or you absolutely have to have a sub? And one last question. How far from the back wall do you pull yours out? Thanks and appreciate your response if you have the time. Have a great one. .
Yes! If you've never heard maggies they will impress the hell out of you for sure, it's a difference experience.
@@user-zx6oc3bi3b I have the Zu DW6 Supremes in triple black, and they look sexy. They also sound fantastic. Then the LRS+ entered the room.
The LRS+ were a bit harsh at first, but after an hour or so they started loosening up and really sounding phenomenal. Yes, better than the Zu's. The way the LRS+ handle the midrange and top end is hard to explain when comparing to the Zu's. The Maggies have a more natural presentation vs sound from a box. Just a better overall listening experience.
The bass... The LRS+, at least in my room, have plenty of bass, if not too much. I used the Rolls SX45 active crossover to shift the low end off to my subs. The crossover really opened up the LRS+ speakers, they really opened up, and the extra stress of the low end was shifted away from the amplifier and off to the subs. I would recommend at least one sub with these speakers. The REL T-Zero Mark III seems very popular, I have a pair on the way.
I have mine out around five feet into the room. I went to Amazon and spent $20 ea for flat panel TV stand legs. They bolted right up and look very much like the $300 ones Maggie sells. I would recommend getting a pair, they look factory and you can adjust the height of the speaker with ease. And they hold the speakers vertical. Worth the $40.
I started off running these LRS+ on my Fosi ZA3 amp. The ZA3 did not even break a sweat and drove the Maggies with ease. But, they sounded a bit 2 dimensional, so I dragged out my old Emotiva XPA2, this is their first gen Class A/B amp and it sounded fantastic with the Maggies.
I would say look for an amp, Class A/B that is at least 100 wpc, and use the Rolls SX45 crossover along with a sub like the T-Zero, just to relieve the stress on your amplifier. I do not believe this crossover will work with an integrated amp, so you will need separates, DAC, Preamp and amplifier.
For $1000, I would not pass these up. They easily surpass my Zu's, and those were roughly $2800 delivered. I could have more or less bought three pairs of the Maggies vs one pair of Zu's. And I am a serious Zu fanboy.
@@NemoPropaganda My buddy found a pair of demos locally, he is picking them up on Tuesday... He heard my experience and is chomping at the bit. And he has owned a few Maggies in his journey, he simply cannot believe the price to sound ratio.
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JLA cr-1 active crossover
Coda Ts v3 800w@4ohms
Shunyata Denali 6000s v2 20a
W4S 10 editionDAC2V2SE
BS NodeN130 (optical)
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I must have just missed Nemo. Luckily, he had managed to get to a lot of the rooms that I had missed! But, we rarely have time to see and do everything at these shows. It also depends on who you end up running into at the show. Myself, I was concentrating on things that I feel are a good value, and in my price range or slightly above it. Like most technical people, I tend to be practical and don't really want to pay for audio jewelry or glitz. It was fun to hear things RUclipsrs had reviewed, and see if I had agreed with their impressions and comparisons.
Great video! I hope to make it there one day soon.
Quick, fast,down and dirty.... I like it... 🍺👍🔈🔊🔊.... saw part 2 1st... ! Cool.
"We're gonna give Bob Carver some air time." That's some authentic audio altruism right there!
Hey Nemo. Met you in the Martin Logan room today, glad I was able to say hi! Keep up the good work!
Hell yeah brother, I'm glad I got to meet so many of you guys!!
Definitely my vote for reviewing Borresen X1 and C1 ;)
1st audio show vid I ever enjoyed. Probably because you didn't get caught up in hype and have a focus on attainable products.
oh yeah, some people asked me if I wanted to interview them and I was like ehhhh, no thank you.
Love to hear what you think of the Devore fidelity sound. I have always wanted to hear them and the Zu Audio. Nice presentation
I don't have any strong opinions on what I heard at the show, I was in and out of most rooms fairly quickly, filming all the rooms in 2 days is a serious challenge so if I had any left over time I used it to chat with people instead of listen to gear :)
@@NemoPropaganda fair call.
That michi stuff is killer, please try to get an x3 for review its so good
As much as I love my Parasound 2125v2 for my GoldenEar BRX, I've upgraded to the NAD C298 (similar to NAD M23).
My Parasound will be moved to powering the surround L/R speakers in a mixed use music/movies 7.4.4 setup.
My requirements (
🙌… my rythmik sub is on the way for next week. Picked one up thanks to your review
hell yeah brother!!
What one did you go with?
@@bearclaw5115 lv12m just before their shipping cutoff for 2 week closure
Was gonna go speedwofer 10s mk2 but thought rythmik fit my tastes better
Hope you get a chance to hear the Morel room! My buddy was there and was blown away by their price/performance/looks ratio.
I went 3 times and told the guy he will send me a review sample. I didn’t ask. I literally told him this is happening. Of course with a smile :)
Bello/Magnifico.😱😱😱😱😱😮👑🍾💓
If I was Lu Kang Audio I would just be bumping "Techno Syndrome (Mortal Kombat Theme)" by The Immortals on a continuous loop in my room. "Test your might!"
I bought the plans and components for the Neil Blanchard Designs bookshelf speaker. I haven’t built them yet but I’m super excited to do it. FYI it’s about $100 for the plans, $300 or so for the components and then the cost of the wood to build them out.
is it only available in DIY or does he sell finished speakers too?
@@NemoPropagandaThere are plans to sell both finished speakers as well as kits.
The new Yamaha speakers are suppose to be the real deal
Hi Nemo, how about some chapters bb?
that sounds like job thing lol
passive systems ain't got a patch on the best active studio monitors in the business , namely ATC SCM ASL MONITORS .
10:46 🙏🙏🙏
Zu audio mmm
Btw, are you a Jewish Iranian from origin? I think there is a large group of Iranian Jews living in Western USA.
I do not wish to disucss myself in YT comments section but my discord is free if you want to hop in.
Anybody know the name of the speakers on 4:48 minute mark ?
it's not on their website yet but it's by sadurni acoustics.
Brand and model #’s please!
this isn't your first time seeing my tradeshow coverage, you know I don't do that brother.
Pathos vs Orchard back to back
I'm a few months away from having an Orchard review sampe, since the monoblocks are new I told the owner to please send out his review samples to the big channels first and send it to me last since my channel is small :)
@NemoPropaganda I hope they somehow end up there at the same time. What a comparison that would be. Top specs vs top specs.
@@Audfile i doubt they have a similar sound but I will let you know.
@@NemoPropaganda the GaN circuits will surprise you. Enjoy those.
You sound like you are in church. heh. I dont this does wifi Just cable You might want to check out something that works off the cable.