There wasn’t a lot new at this year’s Axpona show in Chicago, but there was a lot: twelve full floors of audio, hundreds of manufacturers and over ten thousand attendees. Axpona has become easily the best show in North America, I encourage anyone interested in audio to make the trip — nowhere else will you be able to hear so much equipment from so many manufacturers in such a nice space. The show buzzed with the shared energy of so many music lovers in one place.
We've rebooted our reference music/home theater reference setup here at Outreach. A state-of-the-art JVC RS3100 projector, the peerlessly awesome Storm Audio ISP 3D Elite processor, new Hegel P30A amp for the main speakers and NAD M28s for the center and surrounds, Paradigm Persona subwoofers -- full 11.3 Dolby Atmos/DTS X/Auro 3D capability in one of the finest rigs on the east coast.
Axpona is the largest home audio/video show in North America by far featuring hundreds of the most cutting-edge audio and video manufacturers in the world. I help run the room every year, and amongst this competition, the Scaena Loudspeaker room was cited as best in show in 2022 by several sources, including the audio review magazine The Absolute Sound. Here's what Robert Harley said about the Scaena loudspeakers:
The challenge here was to design a high performance home theater/music system in a house with roots going back to George Washington, and do it as discreetly as possible. Pulling wires and rigging speakers in a house from a house from a different century is often a difficult task, but here is a full 5.3.4 Dolby Atmos theater built around the Paradigm Founders series of speaker and an Anthem AVM 70 processor. The results are powerful, dynamic theater with an immersive surroundfield. Here is a quote from the owner:
The consumer electronic show (CES) in Las Vegas recently ended, and Outreach was there assisting Scaena in their demonstration suite as well as scouting and reporting on new products of interest. As always, distinctive performance and value guide our decision-making. We only sell products we think offer something special. As such, we’ve picked up the AMR/iFi line* of digital and streaming products, the DSPeaker anti-mode 2.0* digital preamp with room correction, and we’ll have more product line pickups to announce soon.
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