Pacific Audio Fest 2022 Show Report
Summary
A last minute Lufthansa strike meant that the Acapella team (Hermann and Lucy) were unable to fly from Germany on time, adding a layover in Anchorage Alaska and not arriving in Seattle until early Friday morning after an incredibly long airplane trip. Neli used her sys-admin skills to set that up – didn’t take too long [ and not too many F-bombs 🙂 ] before we had our Music Server talking to the Internet and the user interface for it working on our phones. That meant we couldn’t use the $120K Audio Note DAC5 Signature [with awesome new to us NOS tubes which, to my ears, added a increased sense of reality and solidity and texture to the frequencies around 1000hz. Our goal for our room sound Using Roon for the user interface, freshly downloaded to our phones, and Qobuz to supply content, we had a blast making a demo playlist at the last minute [OK, a little stressful also. What can I say], and whereas it always generates higher gain sometimes it exposes things in the input signal that cause a degradation in sound quality – but in this configuration, with this system, on this day, it was 100% freaking awesome.