AKOUSTIKI KRITIS - Room 359

ALIANTE, HIDIAMOND, DUAL-TURNTABLES, LYRIC, NORTH STAR DESIGN, OPUS 3 RECORDS, SACD, STS DIGITAL/ CD-SACD

The legendary Dual appeared somehow "refreshed", waking up memories to us older folks. Together with Dual on display were the "chic" Aliante speakers, Lyric's tube amplifiers (with the jewel-like Ti 24 setting apart) and North Star with its CD players and solid state amplfiers.

ANAKROUSIS - Room 346

ALTO HI-FIDELITY, ANALOGUE PRODUCTIONS, AUDIO FIDELITY, ATMA-SPHERE, BOXSTAR RECORDS, CISCO MUSIC, CLASSIC RECORDS, DCC COMPACT CLASICS, EIGHTY-EIGHTS JAPAN, ELECTROSTATICS, GREENROOM RECORDS, GROOVE NOTE, GROUP, JVC JAPAN, KING RECORDS, MOBILE FIDELITY, MOSAIC RECORDS, MUSIC MATTERS, ORIGINAL RECORDINGS, PURE AUDIOPHILE, S&P RECORDS, SILVER AUDIO, SOUND LAB

The "perpetual" Atmasphere in their latest editions, the preamplifier MP-1 MkIII and the monoblock power amplifiers ΜΑ-60 ΜκΙΙΙ driving the hybrid Soundlab Quantum.

ANTIHISI - Room 461

CANARY AUDIO, ECOSSE REFERENCE CABLES, REFERENCE 3A, THORENS, TONIAN LABS, YAMAMOTO SOUND CRAFT
 

The top-of-the-line turntable TD550by the legendary Thorens, was accompanied by the company's amplifiers, the TEP302 phono stage, the TEP3800 preamplifier and the TEM3200 monoblock power amplifiers. The signal from the power amplifiers was driving a pair of Tonian Labs speakers with their ribbon tweeter and the impressive full range driver from the French PHY-HPwith the bronze schassis. Together with all the above, was the Canary CD-200CD player with two 6922 tubes in its output stage and an amplifier by Yamamoto Soundcraft.

APHRODITE'S VISION - Hall

ACOUSTIC ARTS, AERIAL ACOUSTIC, AIR TIGHT, APRIL MUSIC, ARTEMIS LABS, AUDIUM, BEL CANTO, CHESKY RECORDS, DEVORE FIDELITY, DR FEICKERT, MIYAJIMA LABS, MOON, NAGRA, ORACLE AUDIO, PIEGA, PURE SOUND, PURIST AUDIO DESIGN, SOLIDSTEEL, STILLPOINTS, STOCKFISH RECORDS, THIEL, TRIODE, TW-ACOUSTIC, VERITY AUDIO, VIBEX, ZU AUDIO

The hall occupied by APHRODITE'S VISION had quite a number of devices on display, with the Verity Lohengrin "dominating" the area. With it, a fleet of Nagra electronics and a turntable by TW Acoustic.
 

Also, we saw a record washing machine by TW Acoustic, amplifiers by Accustic Arts, the impressive CS3.7 and the CS1.6 by Thiel and a plenty of units by the product line of Moon.

ATHENS PRO AUDIO - Room 415

APPLE, GRACE DESIGN, FOCAL PROFESSIONAL, LIPINSKI, METRIC HALO, SONIC STUDIO

Athens Pro Audio's room was full of devices oriented mainly for professionals, nevertheless they blended deservedly in the High End "mood" of the show.

On display were the active Focal CMS 65 as well as the active  Focal Solo6 Be and Lipinski L-707. Also we saw the preamplifier/headphone amplifier/DAC m902 from Grace Design and the soundcards ULN-2 and ULN-8 from Mytek.The role of the source of the setup was played by an Apple MacBook. The High End "touch" was given by a power amplifier from Pass Labs.

AUDIO DESIGN RACKS - Room 348

AYON AUDIO, AUDIO DESIGN RACKS, LUMEN-WHITE, PHASETECH, VYGER, WSS CABLES

A full system setup coming from the Austrian Ayon consisting of CD5 CD player, which uses tubes extensively, the tube preamplifier  Spheris and the Thor monoblocks with 6C33 tube in the output stage giving 45 Watt out of these very well built monos. The devices were resting on Audio Design's racks and connected to the three way Goshawkspeakers which feature ceramic cone units.

Present yet "silent" were also the the CD3 CD player and the integrated Mercury.

AUDIO EVOLUTION - Hall

ABRAHAMSEN AUDIO, ASTIN TREW, AUDIA FLIGHT, AUDIOLAB, CASTLE LOUDSPEAKERS, CHORD COMPANY, EGGLESTON WORKS, HARMONIC TECHNOLOGY, JEFF ROWLAND, MUSIC TOOLS hi-fi racks & equipments, NORMA AUDIO, OPERA LOUDSPEAKERS

This hall was crowded as well, with the Egglestoneworks The Nine playing with the Audia Flight 100 as well as the pre-amplifier and CD player from the same company. We also saw devices from Astin Trew, Audiolab, Jeff Rowland and Abrahamsen Audio.

Finally, there were on display the speakers from the new line of Castle as well as some speakers by Opera.

AUDIO GROUP GREECE BV - Room 418

Home cinema setup by Loewe.

AUDIO K.MASELOU - Room 328

AUDIO VALVE, HEED AUDIO, ROKSAN AUDIO, SPENDOR AUDIO, TARGET, VMPS AUDIO, WLM
 

In the rooms of the eldest Greek distributor, Mr Masselos, we had the opportunity to admire representative samples from the product line of Audio Valve such as Baldur, Challenger, Avalon and Eklipse. Also we had the opportunity to listen the sonic performance of devices from Heed Audio, the Audio Valve Assistent and the speakers WLM Diva Monitor (shelf) and Lyra MkII (floorstanders).

AUDIO K.MASELOU - Room 330

AUDIO VALVE, HEED AUDIO, ROKSAN AUDIO, SPENDOR AUDIO, TARGET, VMPS AUDIO, WLM

Here on display we saw devices from the product line of Roksan and Spendor. Amongst them, the sets CD - player-amplifier from the line Kandy K2 and Caspian M1, as well as the Spendor SA1 and S3/5R.