Stereophile by Wes Philips
Audience Ups the Ante
Audience Part Deux
SoundStage
The People
Positive Feedback
Images from Show
Enjoy the Music
Report by Jim Becker
Stereophile by Wes Philips
Audience Ups the Ante
Audience Part Deux
SoundStage
The People
Positive Feedback
Images from Show
Enjoy the Music
Report by Jim Becker
No room at CES this year sounded better than the Audience set up. No room sounded as sonically accurate, as emotionally and aesthetically beguiling, as musically truthful and flat out startling with dynamic rightness of weight and timbre—as melodically, angelically charismatic.
Paired with the $7000 ClairAudient 12 subwoofer, this system was able to produce some of the most glorious midrange I’ve ever heard. Space was reach-out-and-touch real, micro dynamic events were breath taking, and the overall tonal balance was scary.
Positive Feedback On-Line/Jim Merod – THE Show ’08 Report
THE Show ’08
Audiogon Interview with Audience
Audience appeals to a wider audience (06:18)
We have THREE videos for you, covering the ever expanding product range from Audience LLC. We were lucky enough to convince John McDonald, the founder, to spend some time with us for this interview. We also caught up with chief designer Roger Sheker, who gave us many insights into their speakers and power products. DIY’ers should also check out his brief on Aura capacitors.
THE Show ’08-
John Casler of VMPS (left) and John McDonald of Audience at CES 2007 where new products were shown which expand the adeptResponse power conditioning line, including the six receptacle aR6 and the aR1p (archived page), a single receptacle unit for mono blocks or ceiling mount projectors. Positive Feedback reported the sound to be dynamic and tonally balanced, with a sense of speed and immediacy that few others captured.
Audience exhibited at EHX ’06 by supporting the Intel demonstration room. Audience supplied all cables, powerChords, and Adept Response power conditioning for the 5.1 system. Other components included a Niveus Media server with Intel’s dual core processor, B&W Loudspeakers, Chord amplifiers, Runco projector and Steward Screen. The surround music and video was provided by AIX Records. The demonstration was awarded Best of Demo Alley.
Audience unveiled the latest incarnation of its Au24 True Line Source loudspeaker, a one-way system with a flat response from 22 kHz to 70 Hz. The lack of a crossover provides ultimate coherency. The sweet spot spans the width of the room, not just the center seat. The total moving mass of each driver is 1.5 grams delivering unsurpassed high resolution sound. As a dynamic driver, the result is the best of all worlds, high resolution and unrestrained dynamics.
Richard Smith (left) and John McDonald receive outstanding product awards;
Positive Feedback Writer’s Choice Awards for 2004 for Au24 Cables and Auric Illuminator. Read about the Positive Feedback Writer’s Choice Awards and other awards received by these outstanding products: Au24 Cable Reviews & Awards and Auric Illuminator Reviews & Awards.