Issue 190 / February 2009
Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2008
Jonathan Valin's Best of Show
Runner-Up: Nola Baby Grand References
In room 431, the $55k Nola Baby Grand References, ribbon/cone
dipole with separate woofer towers, powered by ARC 210 amps, an ARC
Reference 3 preamp, and an ARC CD7, were once again superb -- very
neutral with a wonderful density of tone color. They sounded simply
great on the music I played -- so lifelike in timbre and so
dynamically alive and open and bloomy and airy that they came within a
hair's breadth of winning my Best Sound of Show Award.
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