Thank you to everyone joined us for Music Matters this year – we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! People who appreciate music join us for our events and we encourage you continue to build your music listening skills and experience our showrooms throughout the year.
Every year, attendees request a list of audio equipment in each room, and many of you hear music that left you feeling inspired. We work with our vendors to capture the music selected for the event, and invite you to listen to our Spotify Music Matters Playlist.
Room 1: ClearAudio, dCS, Naim, Transparent & Wilson Audio
- ClearAudio Master Innovation, w/ Goldfinger cartridge, Absolute phono stage (turntable)
- dCS Vivaldi system (digital playback)
- HRS RXR (stand)
- Naim Statement (amps/pre)
- Transparent Opus (cables)
- Wilson Audio Alexx (speakers)
Playlist
Goodbye • Gary Peacock & Marilyn Crispell
Ride Across the River • Dire Straits
Celestial Echo • Malia & Boris Blank
Nun Komm’ Der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 • Kare Nordstoga
Symphony No. 15, OP 141 I. Allegretto • Royal Concertgebouw Haitink
Breaking Silence • Janis Ian • Breaking Silence, Analogue Productions • LP Catalog #APP027
Room 2: HRS, McIntosh, Sonus Faber, & Transparent
- McIntosh D1100 w/ MCT450 (digital playback)
- McIntosh MT10 (turntable)
- McIntosh –C1100 (preamp)
- McIntosh MC1.25kw (amps)
- Sonus Faber Lilium (speakers)HRS –RXR (stand)
- Transparent Reference XL (cables)
Playlist
Born Under a Bad Sign • Jimi Hendrix
DubXanne • Roxanne
1BR/1BA • Vienna Teny •
Stress and Trauma • Brown, Jackson, Roker, Walton Quartet
Send My Love • Adele
Lester’s Methadone Clinic • Sonia Dada
Room 3: ClearAudio, D’Agostino, dCS, HRS, Magnepan, & Transparent
- ClearAudio Innovation Wood (turntable)
- dCS Rossini system (digital playback) featuring new SACD transport
- DS Audio Master1 (cartridge and phono pre) new optical cartridge
- D’Agostino Progression Pre (preamp)
- D’Agostino Progression Stereo amp (amp)
- HRS MXR (stand)Transparent –Reference (cables)
- Magnepan 30.7 (speaker)
- Roon Nucleus+ (music server)
Playlist
Birmingham Sunday • Rhiannon Giddens • Freedom Highway, Nonesuch, LP Catalog #558805-1
Photograph • Lori Lieberman • Ready for the Storm, Drive On Records
Moanin • Shoji Yokouchi Trio • Greensleeves, Three Bind Mice, LP Catalog #TBM5011
Moten Swing • Count Basie and his Orchestra • Me and You, Pablo, LP Catalog #2310-891
It Doesn’t Matter • Allison Kraus and Union Station • So Long So Wrong, LP Catalog #MFSL2-276
Livin’ on the Edge of the Night • Iggy Pop • Virgin EP PM212
The Butcher’s Boy • Natalie Merchant with the Kronos Quartet • Folk Songs, Nonesuch, LP Catalog # 559151-1
Picking Up after You • Tom Waits and Crystal Gayle • One from the Heart, Columbia, LP Catalog #C37703
Wash Me • KD Lang • Ingenue, Nonesuch, LP Catalog #559289-1
Room 4: Bowers & Wilkins, JL Audio, Sony, & Trinnov
- B&W 802 D3 (x5) (speakers)
- JL Audio F113v2 (x2) (subwoofer)
- Sony VPLVW885ES (projector)
- Sony UBPX100ES (Blu-ray)
- Trinnov Altitude 16 (preamp)
- Trinnov Amplitude 8 (amp)
- Trinnov Amplitude 8M (amp)
- Roon Nucleus+ (music server)
Playlist
Requiem • Rutter (2-channel)
Be Here Now • Ray LaMontagne (Played in 2-channel)
Dance to the Drummer Again • Cassandra Wilson (Played in 2-channel)
In The Ghetto • Elvis (Played in 2-channel)
Ozawa: Tchaikovsky’s 6th Symphony (Played in 5-channel)
Time • Pink Floyd: Time (Played in 5-channel)
Room 5: Bowers & Wilkins, Linn, & Transparent
- B&W 802 D3 (speakers)
- Linn Klimax LP12 w/ Urika (turntable)
- Linn Klimax LP12 w/ Urika II (turntable)
- Linn Akurate DSM (digital playback)
- Linn Akurate 4200 (amp)
- Quadraspire SV2T (stand)
- Transparent Super (cables)
Playlist
Track 12 , ‘Ave Maris Stella’ from CKD 569: Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 / Dunedin Consort
Track 8, ‘Farewell to Stromness’ from CKD 534: Peter Maxwell Davis / Sean Shibe, Guitar
The Chain, Fleetwood Mac (Vinyl)
Room 6: Audio Research, ClearAudio, Roon, Sonus Faber, & Transparent
- Audio Research PH9 (phono pre)
- Audio Research DAC 9 (digital playback)
- Audio Research LS28 (preamp)
- Audio Research VT80SE (amp)
- ClearAudio Ovation (turntable)
- Sonus Faber Guarneri Tradition (speaker)
- Transparent Ultra (cables)
- Roon Nucleus+ (music server)
Playlist
Hello • Adele • 25
Jesus, Inc • Wilco • Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
White Teeth Teens • Lorde • Pure Heroine
Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV007: I. Prelude • Johann Sebastian Bach
Work • Charlotte Day Wilson
Open • Rhye • Woman
Morning • Beck • Morning Phase
Duke’s Place (1990 Remastered Version) • Louis Armstrong
Too Good At Goodbyes • Sam Smith, The Thrill of It All (Special Edition, Capitol)
Show Biz Kids • Ricki Lee Jones, It’s Like This (33 RPM original from Artemis Records, not Analogue Productions 45 RPM reissue)
