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| "Best of Show" in Cost No Object category - Grapevine Room - Lone Star Audio Fest 2012 |
RAVEN AUDIO WINS BEST OF SHOW - at Lone Star Audio Fest That was held in Dallas, Texas over the first weekend of May.
We just found out that Raven Audio was awarded the "Best Of Show" award in the Cost No Object category which is the professional/commercial level of the top award for the show.
There is also a Do-It-Yourself Best of Show level of that award which was won by Odd Watt and a Budget Level Component award which was taken by Pi Audio. Raven Audio also tied for Best Room Presentation with Legacy Audio, a very well known high end speaker manufacturer that has won just about every major high end audio award in the business, before a tie breaker gave it to them. Congratulations Legacy!
Danny Richie's company GR Research won the second place Best Room Presentation award. We certainly had a great time and are honored to be granted any award at all considering this is our first rodeo so to speak.
Raven will begin selling product somewhere around June 1st. Of course we now have some gently used amplifiers for sale for anyone who might be interested. The ones we used at the show are now for sale. They are specially equipped with some really nice NOS tubes too.
Thanks Dallas, Texas!
The list below is of all of our products and others suppliers in each room.
Room 321:
Reference Grade Reflection Integrated
Reference Grade Shadow Stereo Amp
Reference Grade Shadow Stereo Preamplifier
Shadow Stereo Amplifier
Prototype 300B Mono Blocks
Nighthawk Integrated Amplifier
Blue Power Cable
Black Power Cable
Speaker Cables - Cambridge Wire with Audio Note banana plugs or C connectors.
Other components used:
Source: Raysonic 128 CD Player - upgraded with V-Caps by S.E. Han
PNL interconnect cables (purple)
Silver Speakers from Stereo Clarity (graciously provided by Steven Salazzo at the last minute to replace the room loading LS9s)
Downstairs Grapevine Room: BEST OF SHOW ROOM
RAVEN AUDIO products
Reference Grade Silhouette Mono Block Amplifiers (90% of the time playing in the room)
Regular Grade Silhouette Mono Block Amplifiers (physically located on the floor - sitting outside of the others)
Reference Grade Silhouette Preamplifier
Blue Power Cable
Black Power Cable
Speaker Cables - Cambridge Wire with Audio Note banana plugs connectors. Sources: Raysonic 238 CD Player - upgraded with Jensen paper-in-oil silver lead and jacketed capacitors - installed by S.E. Han
Haans T-20 turntable with an old Black Widow tonearm
Denon 103R Cartridge
Lighting from Ikea
Stands from VTI and Knight, Canada.
