Stereophile Home Electronics Show Report in New York

For Innovative Audio, I wanted to thank all of the visitors who came by the three Naim demonstrations in the show last weekend. I also wanted to thank the folks at Naim North America who did such a great job in presenting the new equipment. They were also aided and abetted by Doug Graham and a team from the UK who were a huge help, as well as a pleasure to work with.

Naim and Innovative presented in three different rooms. We had a full Naim system showcasing the 552 and the new SL2's, which were at points in a stereo, and later in the weekend, we combined systems to showcase the wonderful AV2 in a full Naim 6.1 theater. This was a uniquely musical approach to home theater that, I think, surprised many people. In a second room, Naim's lower priced system delighted many listeners who found out how musical a Five series system based on Allaes could be.

Finally, as noted elsewhere in this forum, Dynaudio North America was using a CDS II, 52, 500 system to showcase their official debut of the Confidence 4 loudspeakers. This was one of the finest big systems on display in the show, and the buzz on this system was incredible.

Many visitors told us how much they loved one or the other of these demos. If you are interested the Stereophile website includes more show reports.

For those of you who missed the show, check out these wonderful new Naim products at a dealer near you soon.

Bruce Deegan
Innovative Audio New York