Exhibit room: Chateau Ballroom 3 – click for coverage by EnjoyTheMusic.com, Stereo Times, Audioholics
Entry way/static display: Chateau Ballroom 6
Items used in active display:
- Von Schweikert VR-11SE loudspeakers, $100,000-$125,000/pair (depending upon finish)
- VAC Phi 220 Monoblocks, $9,500 each (biamp configuration)
- VAC Phi 2.0 Master Control Preamplifier, $15,000
- Oracle CD2000 transport, $7,500
- Oracle DA2500 dac, $7,500
- Oracle Delphi Mk.V turntable, ~$5,000 without arm or cartridge
- Graham 2.2 tonearm
- Acoustic Zen Silver Reference II interconnects, $948 for 1 meter pair
- Acoustic Zen Matrix Reference II interconnects, $548 for 1 meter pair
- Acoustic Zen Hologram II speaker cables, $1,048 for 8 foot pair
- Acoustic Zen Satori speaker cables, $598 for 8 foot pair
- Acoustic Zen Gargantua II power cables, $1,488 for six foot cable
- Acoustic Zen Tsunami power cables, $350 for six foot cable
- Acoustic Zen MC2 digital cable
- Room treatments designed by Rives Audio (consulting from $900 up)
- Rives Audio PARC, $2,800
- PS Audio power conditioner
- Quantum power conditioner
For the recordings of Misty River Band (sessions daily at 5 PM):
- Engineer-Chris Huston of Rives Audio
- Geoff Daking mixing console
- Soundelux elux251 tube mic
- Soundelux e49 tube mic (Kevin Hayes comments that this may be the most astounding mic he’s ever heard!)
- Soundelux 47 tube mic
- Brauner Valvet tube mic
- A/D conversion courtesy of Ed Meitner
- Tascam DSD recorder courtesy of Ray Kimber
The active demonstration system
Misty River Band getting ready to record
Chris Huston confers with Misty River
Chris Huston at the mixing deck
Beautiful VAC Phi 220 amps glow and music flows…
A veritable bevy of VAC instruments