The Rooms At the Blue Coast Records’ portion of the Blue Coast Records/Tim Marutani Consulting exhibit, you were greeted by the smiling face of Cookie Marenco who is surely excited about what they are doing. Blue Coast Records was founded by producer/engineer Cookie Marenco and French engineer Jean Claude Reynaud in 2007. They are known […]  read more…

Setting up is hard to do! Whether your knowledge of audio show is from actually going to shows or strictly from show reports, I promise that you have no idea of the amount of work involved in transforming a hotel room into a showroom where your equipment will sound at least respectable. Think about it […]  read more…

Loggie Audio Equipment: Acapella High Violoncellos II speakers; Ypsilon Aelius Hybrid Mono Amps, PST 100 Mk II preamp, and VPS 100 phonostage; Stage III cables, Weizhi power conditioning, Bergman Sindre Turntable and integral straight line tonearm with an Ortofon A-90 cartridge. This is what I personally consider to be the state-of-the-art with respect to what […]  read more…

Normally, when you read about the first year of any event, you expect apologies for what the writer hopes will develop over time into something interesting. In this particular case, that would be a major mistake. CAS was many things, but clearly not something which requires an apology. It was widely successful, easily exceeding the […]  read more…

One of the really fun things to do at this show, if you could get a seat, was to go to the Blue Coast World room for one of the live performances/recordings. Each day at 11 and 4, award-winning sound engineer Cookie Marenco was presenting live acoustic recording sessions with a host of different performers. […]  read more…

There were some great sounding systems that were using analogue sources. In the Design Interaction (retailer)-JBL Exhibit, they were using Project’s newest turntable. It looks rather plain, but it is using a magnetic bearing for the platter and sounded very good at the show. In The Lotus Group Exhibit, they were using the Hanns Acoustics […]  read more…

There were sublime moments, as when listening to live recording sessions of Blue Coast Records conducted at the show in one of the two, large lobby-level exhibits. Sitting in the front row, the distinction between the actual instrument in this exhibit and the equipment on the other floors reproducing music was stark. Not a single […]  read more…

The first time show attendee may not realize it, but the system in any given room which is heard on the first day is not necessarily the same system heard on the last day. Components are frequently swapped, cables alternated, room treatments added, and speaker systems exchanged. It is a good policy, if possible, to […]  read more…

Constantine, congratulations you pulled it off; what a great show! I’ll be honest I didn’t think it could be done in such a short amount of time. I also have never attended a show where the vendors seemed quite so pleased. It was great that so many of Dagogo’s writers were there as well. I […]  read more…

Ask nearly anyone who attended the Dagogo California Audio Show and you’ll likely hear that it was as good as gold! It exceeded expectations, most visibly in terms of attendance. As we Dagogoan’s were shuttled to the airport on the Monday morning following, Constantine proudly shared that the total visitors had topped 2,000! That’s sensational […]  read more…

May 19, 2010 The idea of organizing a California audio show had been raised by manufacturers and importers during my business conversations with them throughout the years. Then, something curious happened. The noise on the topic from the group nationwide died down at the same time the local group picked up the topic with me; […]  read more…