CH Precision showed with Vivid loudspeakers.

Constellation showed with TAD.

Like a proper husband 'n' wife team would, Crystal Cable and Siltech showed together. Between each other Gabi and Edwin now cover everything except source components.

This year the Fine Sounds group of brands—Audio Research, McIntosh, Sonus faber, Wadia—had one giant exhibit of which Krell and d'Agostino were part. Whether one should read anything into that remains to be seen.

Here is Dan's preamp with orbital remote control.

Whilst on Fine Sounds still, this rack of power gave high-end a really bad name when someone decided to crank it.

Dali of Denmark decided that what's good for Harley-Davidson is good also for their skins. And we're not talking tramp stamps.

Diapason showed what happens when wood becomes silver paint.

A grouping of various companies.

Everything But The Box from Bulgaria love curves and colors.

Elrog tubes from Klaus Schaffernicht. Very expensive, purportedly very good and also near unobtainium given lead times.

Final Audio Design's Pandora X headphone.

Fostex 's amazing TH-900 sealed headphone. I want one!

Genelec could teach hifi snobs a thing or ten about powered monitors.

German Physiks join Goebel, Linaeum & Co, Naim, NXT and Manger in the bending-wave driver sweepstakes.

Here is Goebel with Analog Domain amplification. The latter's Angel Despotov is about to have something smaller and more relevant to European apartment dwellers that'll sport even more advanced circuitry. Launch date? HighEnd Suisse.

This room would have sounded a lot better had not Goebel's Chinese importer asked to hear this subwoofer in action.

Grandinote from Italy.

Hanss Acoustics from Hong Kong not only make turntables but this attractively ensconced valve integrated.

Hegel's new H300 integrated offers power and digital conversion smarts for a very fair price.

HMS' Hans-Manfred Strassner is too busy serving his core German market to bother with a website or non-EU plugs.

Holborne from Switzerland was a brand new to me. This hybrid amp looked very attractive and isn't priced to cause grief so I talked to designer Meinrad Müller about reviewing one. Not everything Swiss is gold-plated.

Jo Sound from the Channel Islands is big on bamboo and Voxativ drivers. The outer model in fact sports downfiring rear-horn loading designed by Inès Adler. Sasa Cokic was pleased to see one of his Trafomatic Audio 300B integrateds.

Kaiser Acoustics from Germany knows a few things about speaker design and room acoustics.

Electronics were from Thrax of Bulgaria. Their hybrid monos were the very ones I'd just reviewed. Rumen Artarski explained that the mute fault I'd encountered was caused by a bad relay.