RMAF 2013

The vinyl-centric Ayre Acoustics room was one of day one's analog highlights for this correspondent. The room was filled with inexpensive used vinyl from local vinyl vendor Absolute Vinyl and everyone was in a festive mood.

But looks can be deceiving. While turntables were in some rooms that I managed to visit during day one of this very large tenth anniversary show (VPI claims to have around thirty spread throughout the show), I didn't see much that was new. There were a few new turntables and I did see and hear PS Audio's new phono preamp A/D converter, but the big news at this show, based on my admittedly limited first day coverage, was high resolution downloading, including DSD.

Naturally I passed those rooms by because Stereophile will be covering that completely. I'm here scouting for what's new in vinyl, turntables and accessories.

So please stay tuned. Posts of what I already found that was new, and there were a few things, will be posted shortly. I have a seminar early this morning (9:30 AM) Denver time on "Deciphering 'dead wax' numbers, letters squiggles and stamps and why they matter' that I have to prepare for now so other posts will appear later.