2012 - Products of the Year
Time to put up this post as 2013 is just around the corner....
To me.
Best Accessory of the Year: Dalby Record Weight
Best components of the Year: Tidal Agoria
This year I have skipped many super crazy gears, power cords and ground wires so it is not a very challenging thing for me to choose. As an observer, the streaming of the products from AE in 2012 is non-stop and become more diversified. On top of the evolvement of their house products like Lizst from Cessaro, new Olympic Reference and FMR phono by Argento, Agoria, Impulse by Tidal, Virtu series by DaVinci, we saw new brands of turntables, tonearms, preamp, speakers and even the most recently CAS (which I cannot escape unfortunately!)...Come on...this is a crazy collection of exotics stuff to die for !! That keeps me away from my early retirement !!
Marvel
To me.
Best Accessory of the Year: Dalby Record Weight
Best components of the Year: Tidal Agoria
This year I have skipped many super crazy gears, power cords and ground wires so it is not a very challenging thing for me to choose. As an observer, the streaming of the products from AE in 2012 is non-stop and become more diversified. On top of the evolvement of their house products like Lizst from Cessaro, new Olympic Reference and FMR phono by Argento, Agoria, Impulse by Tidal, Virtu series by DaVinci, we saw new brands of turntables, tonearms, preamp, speakers and even the most recently CAS (which I cannot escape unfortunately!)...Come on...this is a crazy collection of exotics stuff to die for !! That keeps me away from my early retirement !!
Marvel
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But I'd also like to vote AGORIA by Tidal as the product of the year too. The speakers are the soul of the system. How many speakers out there are actually speakers? Frankly, not much. The Agoria is great.
While we are constantly bombarded by nice surprises, the influx of exotic gears never let our system get settled...
Whenever I am contented with what I hear with "That's it" cross my mind, PT will carry a ladder for me to climb, which I daren't to look back. The summit is forever a mirage...
Losing myself in this audio SM is a voluntary act. I don't see when I will graduate in this audiophile cirriculum by AE. And 2012 is only my 2nd yr with you guys...
And it is about time to announce who are the winners...(in order of preference)
Champion:Dalby retains the crown(my choice last yr was the LV feet) with the unsurpassed ground wire!
1st Runners-up: Wadax for the groundbreaking digital phono (it sounds analogue afterall!)
2nd Runners-up: Argento Olympic 2012 (it alters my perception to Argento, without a trace of cosmetics)
Look forward to more votes from other AE commrades!
Des
Speaker, this year provided a dramatic development of AE business. The new Globel and Listz give me an exit from a dark tunnel where I stuck inside for some years. It is enlightenment.
Mr. Madrid brought me a crazy Wadax which offers an unprecedented computer sound quality. It is an Innovation.
The rest of our products…they all have their special and unique characters. Inside the audio exotics theater, all the hi-end audio designers are an important part for the play!!
ALL THE BEST IN 2013…Live With Music!!
JLam
Liszt is the statement product from CESSARO. I could not find a single fault for it. But the problem is too few people to audition it. If it could not be the product of this year, please count it in 2013.