RMAF 2017 Reader Reports

[The Computer Audiophile]

Hi guys - Let's use this thread for posting reader reports from the show (similar to how everyone posted comments and photos from the Munich show).

 

 

[The Computer Audiophile]

New Mytek Brooklyn+ announced. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                   RMAF: Lobby Booth #13   

Press Contact: Bryan Stanton [email protected]

 

Mytek Introduces New Brooklyn DAC+ With Upgraded Performance; Now Shipping: Brooklyn AMP, Plus Optional Phono and Roon Cards for Manhattan II

 

2017 RMAF, October 6, 2017 — Mytek, manufacturer of professional ADC/DACs and consumer DACs, unveiled at RMAF 2017 a brand new model of the highly-acclaimed Brooklyn DSD/MQA DAC, the Brooklyn DAC+.

Brooklyn DAC+, priced at $2,195, features redesigned and enhanced conversion, analog and power supply circuits, resulting in overall improved sound quality. Improvements include the new Sabre 9028PRO DAC chipset for enhanced resolution and better digital filter options, upgraded headphone amplifier, better L/R separation, larger capacity power supply and new, very transparent analog attenuator circuit.

 

All these quality improvements result in even more convincing digital PCM, DSD and MQA playback and streaming as well as state of the art M/C, M/M Phono musical experience. The Brooklyn DAC+’s new headphone circuitry performance challenges many dedicated headphone amplifiers.

A lot of praises were written about the Brooklyn DAC, which has sold many thousands of units since the launch of MQA. The new Brooklyn DAC+ provides users with benefits of the newest conversion technologies, while retaining the amazing versatility and affordability that the original Brooklyn DAC has been praised for. 

 

Shipments of the Brooklyn DAC+ start Oct. 16th, 2017.

 

Mytek’s new Brooklyn AMP, the world’s smallest dual-mono 300W power amplifier, is now shipping in quantity. Priced at only $1,995, the Brooklyn AMP “delivers unbelievably analog-like, triode-type sound,” according to Mytek president and chief engineer Michal Jurewicz.

 

Mytek’s engineering team have used their extensive DSD experience to get the Brooklyn AMP dual mono Class-D circuit design sounding better than other comparable Class-D designs to date. The Brooklyn AMP is compact, yet delivers deep and powerful tight bass, natural mids and silky, smooth highs.

 

 

 

Several additional features include monoblock bridge operation, biamp operation and a 12VDC power trigger. The sculpted chassis design integrates perfectly with the Brooklyn MQA/DSD DAC and Brooklyn MQA/DSD DAC+ for a great sounding compact electronics setup capable of playing digital music or vinyl into a set of speakers and headphones.

 

The Brooklyn AMP and Brooklyn DAC are also available together at the special introductory “bundle price” of $3,595. Weight is a mere 6 lbs./3kg.

 

Mytek is also now shipping their long-awaited optional Phono and Roon cards for the Manhattan II DAC.

 

◀ Optional Precision Phono Analog Preamp Card: High End M/M, M/C Phono Preamplifier with custom nickel core step up transformer, relay switchable and tunable. Input impedances, transformer ratio, RIAA curves and choice of gain can be changed within the menu or using the remote via relay switches.

 

 

Optional “Roon Ready” Network Card: Turns the Manhattan II into a network streamer with 24/192k and DSD64 maximum throughput. Compatible w/Roon, DLNA/UpnP. ▼

 

 

Both are user-installable, and priced at $1,495 for the Phono card, and $995 for the Roon card.

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http://www.mytekdigital.com/

 

About Mytek

 

After graduating from Warsaw’s University of Technology with a Master of Science degree in Studio Electronics and Acoustics, Michał Jurewicz left his native Poland and moved to the United States. He worked in two legendary New York City recording studios — the Hit Factory and Skyline Studio, forming many working relationships and friendships in the NYC audio-engineering community that have continued to this date. He developed a series of Analog-to-Digital converters that improved the quality of digital mixes. Nearly all recordings by Mariah Carey, James Taylor, James Brown, The Chic, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, and others from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s were mixed with prototypes of Mytek digital converters. In order to commercialize his hardware designs, Jurewicz founded Mytek in New York in 1992. Mytek’s goal has always been technological innovation aimed at preserving the highest possible sound quality during the recording process. It was Mytek’s leadership position in Professional Audio since 1992 that convinced MQA, Ltd. to make Mytek its first standalone-hardware technology partner. For further information, please visit the Mytek website at www.mytekdigital.com.

 

PRESS CONTACT

 

J B Stanton Communications NY/CT/LA/HK

Building Brands for A/V Products & Technologies Since 1977

Norfolk, CT 06058 USA

www.jbstanton.com

 

CONTACT

Bryan Stanton

[email protected]

 

+1.860.542.1234

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Mytek 2017 RMAF press release.docx

[The Computer Audiophile]

 

Embargo until 12:00 Noon GMT Friday 6th October

PRESS RELEASE   Naim adds Roon Ready to New Uniti All-In-One Systems Rocky Mountain International Audio Fest Denver, Colorado 20171006.  Naim confirmed today that it will be adding Roon Ready to the already long list of Uniti series features.  Naim is taking the opportunity of the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest – one of the world’s superior specialist hi-fi shows to demonstrate the full capabilities of Naim’s new Uniti series including, just announced, Roon Ready. Naim expects to issue a firmware update to its new Uniti products during October to enable Roon. Naim Uniti Nova Naim’s relationship with Roon extends back quite some time and stems from a mutual respect and desire to improve the owner’s experience without compromising performance or sound quality.  Initially the discussions centred around the benefits to Naim of using Roon’s back engine to assist with cataloguing ripped CDs and music imports.  This enabled Naim to generate and utilise crosslinks between rips, imports and Tidal streaming.  As anyone who has used a Naim Uniti Core together with a Uniti Atom, Uniti Star or Uniti Nova system has experienced: finding, listing and choosing music to play is helped immensely by a very rich and detailed cross linking and artist information. Following on from the initial discussions and implementation, the benefits of also enabling the Roon RAAT (Roon Advanced Audio Transport) were discussed and agreed.  Naim however doesn’t consider this a solution for everyone.  To use this requires Roon Software which is currently $119 per year or $499 for a life license, but for music lovers with large music collections it is ideal. Roon makes owning and enjoying a large collection of music a dream. Music Is easy to locate and play as well as Roon opening the door to even more new music via its cross linking and extensive metadata.   What Is Roon And Roon Ready? Roon is an independent company producing specialist software currently primarily an audio server and control point. Roon is an incredibly rich and engaging way to browse and organize music. It runs on most Mac, Windows, and Linux PCs, or on other products which include Roon Core. Being Roon Ready means that Naim Audio’s network players transparently discover and connect to Roon without any configuration, and bit-perfect audio is delivered from Roon to your network player.   Roon Trial There is a 14-day trial available for consumers.  Go to www.roonlabs.com   The demo system This graphic illustrates the demo system with the Naim Uniti Nova Naim Nova Demo System Quote from Trevor Wilson Managing Director, Naim Audio “At Naim we have always appreciated customers that wish to experience and browse their music collections in many different ways – be that vinyl, UPnPTM servers (of many different flavours), CD, Tuners and streaming services. In recent times a new entrant to the computer audio world – Roon – has created a solution that appeals to a certain section of the audiophile community. Naim has been looking at and talking with Roon for quite a while – we get on well and I’m pleased that we can make this announcement today.” Screen grab of Roon showing signal path   Quote from Enno Vandermeer CEO, Roon Labs “We created Roon, so music enthusiasts could engage with digital music in a way that goes beyond the playlist. Our two goals are to help listeners explore and discover music they love, and to let them enjoy that music on their choice of audio equipment. Partnering with Naim is a huge step for us, because we can finally offer the Roon experience to the vibrant group of music lovers that is the Naim community.”   iPad view of Pop/Rock genre iPad view of Now Playing screen   For further information, Images and/or a trial of Roon software, please contact: Images:  Images on Dropbox   Steve Harris AudioPlus Email: [email protected]  Tel: +44 20 8642 4436   For Roon specific Info please contact: Enno Vandermeer Roon Labs  Email: [email protected]   NB.  Images used of artists, album covers may or may not have the copyright holder's permission because even the record companies find It difficult to track the rights holder. We will of course remove any image from the pack should there be a request from the rights holder.   About Naim Founded in 1973, Naim is an award-winning hi-fi manufacturer based in Wiltshire, UK. With a history rooted in engineering and design excellence, Naim has won the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise on three occasions, most recently for its ground-breaking design of digital music systems in 2014. Naim shares the same intense relationship with music as its customers, a passion that has driven them to design and engineer hi-fi products including digital music systems, amplifiers and loudspeakers that connect people with their music. For Naim, music always comes first. Every product is the subject of intense scrutiny from a team of engineers who spend months or years perfecting designs, never content until the music speaks to their hearts and souls as well as their heads. Naim maintains an exclusive partnership with Bentley Motors - the Naim for Bentley premium audio system is available as an optional extra on all Bentley models – and Naim is an official sponsor of Team M-Sport Bentley for the 2017 GT3 season. Naim Records is a world-renowned independent record label that champions artistic integrity, creativity and freedom. Created in 1992 by Naim founder Julian Vereker MBE, the Naim Records combined his love of music with his quest to deliver the best sound quality, from the studio to the listening room. Naim’s commitment to great music extends to its independent record label, Naim Records. Championing artistic integrity, creativity and freedom, it’s critically acclaimed artists includes Mercury Prize nominee ESKA, Ugandan singer-songwriter and guitarist Daudi Matsiko and the ground-breaking Jazz artist, Yazz Ahmed. About Roon Roon transforms the experience of browsing music. Artist photos, credits, bios, reviews, lyrics, tour dates, and composers are located automatically, then interconnected by links to build a surfable, searchable digital magazine about your collection. And Roon finds all the same links between your personal files and the millions of tracks available on TIDAL, so you can start with the music you know, then explore and discover new music from the world beyond your collection. In addition to music browsing, Roon is a multi-room, multi-user networked audio platform built to the exacting standards of audiophiles. It offers features like bit-perfect playback, DSD and PCM upsampling, multichannel playback, and signal path display. Roon plays to a number of different types of devices on your home network – Roon Ready, AirPlay, Sonos, Squeezebox and many more – and can be controlled from Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Steve Harris MBA FCIM

 

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[Superdad]

Based on your kickoff, it seems like you could rename this thread RMAF Press Releases and start a new one for Reader Reports.  

 

Just sayin'...  

 

And whoever goes, have a great show!  Wish I could join you (have to help my elderly mom and step-father pack for their house move).

--Alex C.

[austinpop]

I don't get there until tonight, but now I have to check out the Brooklyn+, assuming they have it on display.

 

I'm particularly curious about their "larger capacity" power supply.

[The Computer Audiophile]

At Auralic now. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

Great sound in the Auralic room! Very delicate and enjoyable. Perfect system for the room. 

Aries G2 and Vega G2 sound awesome. 

Glad this was my first stop of the show. 

[MarkS]

Are those the YG Carmel 2's?  Always thought they are actually a good speaker compared to some other YG's (though the whole YG line is improving IMHO)..

[The Computer Audiophile]

At SOtM now. Another really good system. Right sized for the room. Playing Bob Dylan Girl From the North Country. The Magico S1 mkii is really singing. 

 

Right system for the room. Proper volume level. Good stuff. 

[The Computer Audiophile]

I'm on a roll today. Three rooms and three great sounds. Constellation and Wilson, playing some Stevie Ray Vaughan. This is wonderful.

[George Hincapie]

Please find Schiit and find out what this new pitch changing thingymabob is!

[George Hincapie]

1 hour ago, MarkS said:

Are those the YG Carmel 2's?  Always thought they are actually a good speaker compared to some other YG's (though the whole YG line is improving IMHO)..

 

I heard these connected to a PS Audio full system at the Windsor HIFI show last year. In all honesty I thought they were average at best and not worth anything close to £25,000.

[kennyb123]

The $5000 ELAC speakers punched way above their weight.  Apparently the total cost of gear in this room (excluding cables, etc) was around $10,000 and yet the sound was better than in many far more expensive rooms

[The Computer Audiophile]

It's hard to compete with Andrew Jones. 

[George Hincapie]

6 hours ago, kennyb123 said:

The $5000 ELAC speakers punched way above their weight.  Apparently the total cost of gear in this room (excluding cables, etc) was around $10,000 and yet the sound was better than in many far more expensive rooms

 

Those speakers are £5200 in the UK ($6796). Why do we always get taken dry by pricing? Such BS *sad face*

[George Hincapie]

3 hours ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

It's hard to compete with Andrew Jones. 

 

In talking as well as speaker design; I swear he has a higher daily word count than my wife and that's impressive.

[Summit]

1 hour ago, George Hincapie said:

 

Those speakers are £5200 in the UK ($6796). Why do we always get taken dry by pricing? Such BS *sad face*

 

It’s not BS it’s VAT , which stands for value added tax and are placed on goods or services. Most industrial countries (not including USA) has some kind of federal VAT, but how much can vary. In Sweden for example the VAT is 25 %, which is one of the highest VAT in the world. The VAT is a form of tax and the main purpose of tax is to finance the public sector. The tax may also have other purposes, such as equalizing income.

[George Hincapie]

I am sure your post was well intentioned, but I don't need a lecture on VAT...

 

I presume then US prices are quoted exclusive of VAT? That doesn't cover the price difference.

[The Computer Audiophile]

If only I could afford Nagra!

 

[The Computer Audiophile]

Where is Jesus ( @vortecjr ) when you need him :~)

 

 

[George Hincapie]

11 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

Where is Jesus ( @vortecjr ) when you need him :~)

 

 

 

What brand/model are the amps? Looks nice.

[The Computer Audiophile]

Same great sound that @kennyb123 heard. Great stuff. 

 

About a 10k system.

 

[Ralf11]

can posters detail the components in the systems?

[The Computer Audiophile]

Naim focal system from Listen Up. Another great sounding system. What's going on this year?! Usually by now I've had it with the show because of bad sound. Not the case this year. 

 

@Ralf11 Here is a photo of the system and the system description. 

[Ralf11]

are the components better this year?  or is the room setup better?