Dutch Audio Event 2026 Report Part One

October 13, 2026

TEAM HiFi PiG REPORTS FROM THE LARGEST HiFi SHOW IN BENELUX, THE DUTCH AUDIO EVENT 2026

Dutch Audio Event 2026 Report
DAE 2026
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With thousands of visitors, a super venue, a friendly and well-organised show team and some exceptional exhibitors, the DAE 2026, held in Veldhoven on the outskirts of Eindhoven, over last weekend, was an incredible event.

Join Stu, Lin, Oscar and Kelly as we spend the weekend at one of our favourite European HiFi shows… the Dutch Audio Event 2026, or DAE 2026 as it is also known.

This first report is from Stu and Lin, with Part Two to come from Oscar and Kelly…along with our Golden PiG Awards for the show!

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DUTCH AUDIO EVENT 2026 REPORT PART ONE

We’ve been coming to the Dutch Audio Event for a good number of years now, and it’s certainly one of our favourite shows that we attend. This year we had Oscar and Kelly along to help us cover a show that has grown and grown in recent years. Growth and change are not always universally popular, but for me, this year’s event was the best, though it was a little disappointing not to see some of the usual brands we see exhibiting, I guess this is just a case of not being able to please all the people all the time.

Without a shadow of a doubt, this is one of the best organised shows we have attended, and clearly audio fans absolutely love the show, as they turned up in droves – a rough estimate would suggest that there were perhaps 8000 visitors to the show.

The venue is an old monastery that has been converted into a hotel and specialist conference centre, so all the rooms are of a good size and all the exhibitors that Lin and I had the opportunity to see and meet had gone to great lengths to make it an experiential event for folk visiting their room.

I’d like to extend a huge thank you to Ivo and the DAE 2026 show team and all the people involved in putting together the Dutch Audio Show. We found the people involved at all levels to be very friendly, very helpful, and looking hugely proud to be involved in such a great event.

We would also like to thank our coverage sponsor Electrocompaniet.

Now, on with the DAE 2026 Show Report…

GVR AUDIO IMPORT

Acoustic Solid turntables abounded in this really nicely lit and put together show (people could really learn a thing or two from how folk dress their rooms from the European shows), but for me, it was lovely to see Welsh-based brand Leema being really well represented, and that caught my eye. GVR bought the German turntable manufacturer Acoustic Solid eight months ago, and it was nice to chat with the owner, Joost van den Bosch, about the plans for the business and the move of the whole operation from Germany to Holland.

The big system was showing off the new 733 flagship turntable with two motors (45K) with a 12K Van den Hul cartridge built especially for this event. I sat down with Andy from Leema who demoed the first demo of the show. The rest of the 2-horsepower system (“just what you need for an early Saturday morning”) was made up of Audio Physic Cardeas (40K) speakers, and Leema electronics. The German-made Cardeas have wholly new drivers with new membranes and new surround materials. Interestingly, the drivers are glueless. One of Leema’s techy tricks that we were shown was Andy turning the volume on the pre, which turned up the volume LEDs on the power amps – he then went on to explain Leema’s solution to reduce noise inherent in systems – basically, the preamp attenuator is in the power amp rather than in the preamplifier. Essentially, rather than a small voltage going to the power amps, you get a robust 2-volt signal. Leema call this the LIPS system. It’s a system used in studios and nice to see being adopted by home electronics. We got to listen to the new Keith Don’t Go for Gen Z, Ratchets – I joke, of course, it’s a fabulous track! Well, that certainly blew away the cobwebs of travel. Andy then went on to discuss the DAC used in the system, which uses the Quatro Infinity DAC – too detailed to go into here, but you can head over to the Leema website where I’m sure it will be explained much better than I can here. A cover of Tainted Love and then Jim Morrison followed. Brave to play a spoken word (JM track) intro, but it certainly worked before Riders on the Storm followed.

A smaller and much more affordable system was also made up of Leema and Audio Physic.

ARPEGGIO ACOUSTIC

Arpeggio Acoustic are a Dutch loudspeaker manufacturer and were showing off their Mezzo Opus speakers that are 12K and the smaller monitors, the brand new Mini Opus which are 6K. The speakers ran off an Audio Research i/70 integrated valve amplifier. Lumin’s X2 network player was the source.

LOEWE AND CABASSE

Not exhibited here, but I still maintain that the Cabasse Sphere is one of the very finest loudspeakers on the planet. We got to listen to the Murano Alto floorstanders at 3K and the Alize at 2K. Both seemed to punch well above their weight. The amplifier used was the Cabasse 240 S at 2K. This was a fine example of how high-end brands can cater for the relative mass (let’s call it lifestyle) market. I thought it interesting to have a television in the middle of the speakers, just as it is likely to be set up at home for real-world users. All Cabasse speakers are proudly made in Brest in France (or more correctly, Bretagne). We’ve been lucky enough to visit the factory, and if you get the chance, you should too, the listening room offers a spectacular view of the Atlantic!

QOBUZ

The team from Qobuz France were engaging new listeners at their stand in the main foyer.

D AND D AUDIO

Clearly D and D are doing something right as the room was rammed, and the DAE hadn’t even been opened for a full hour yet. And then we saw the list of brands this distributor represents, and it became clear why it was such a popular room. Astell and Kern, Clearaudio, Crystal Cable, Devialet, SME, Vitus Audio, Vinnie Rossi and YG Acoustics.

We got to listen to a system fronted by YG Acoustics Sonja 3.2 speakers being powered by Vitus Audio amps and an SME analogue front end or Vitus streamer/DAC. There was talk of the new YG Acoustics Vesper being in the system, but they had only just launched last week.

Vitus gear was the SD-025 which combines streamer and DAC functions, the SL-103 analogue preamplifier with balanced XLR and unbalanced RCA inputs and outputs. Amplification was the Vitus Audio SM-025 mono power amplifiers

The music wasn’t really to my taste, but it was easy to appreciate that we were listening to a quality system.

Once again, we’re in a room that was beautifully and thoughtfully put together so that it felt high-tech and homely, whilst showing off the audio equipment on display.

YAMAHA MUSIC EUROPE

Yamaha is a mass-market kind of brand, and the room was suitably packed, playing a version of Comfortably Numb that punters were clearly lapping up. The room was split into zones and very well laid out, though for us it was standing room only.

FINE SOUNDS BENELUX

Sonus faber Olympica IIIG speakers fronted by McIntosh 2375 amps and associated electronics were blasting out Enter Sandman when we entered this room, and it was busy!

The room was nicely put together with a whole load of tastefully displayed static product, plus the system that was actually making music. McIntosh and Sonus faber had built a kind of room within a room with plants, lighting gobos and dark curtains. The presentation was in Dutch (which I don’t understand) but was clearly informative enough to keep people interested in the products being played without boring them to death with an overly technical explanation of what we were hearing – I really liked this approach.

MARANTZ, DENON AND B&W STANDS

Display area for Bowers, Marantz and Denon….plus their driving game simulator.

BOWERS AND WILKINS

Another big room fronted by a pair of Bowers and Wilkins 801 series D5S. There was nothing playing in the room when we first entered, but the attendees were waiting patiently, including a woman finishing off the morning’s crossword – and why not! The amp being used was the Classe Delta Mono with the Delta PRE MKII.

Andy from Bowers and Wilkins did a presentation on the new D5S, how they had improved the cabinets and how they have made them “disappear” as much as possible. We got to listen to a track that was essentially live-recorded contrabass – and yes, it did sound very “in the room” live. The whole idea of the speakers is to reduce vibration from the cabinet, a wholly different approach to some loudspeaker manufacturers. Aluminium assemblies, bracing and wood come together to create a strong, solid and, crucially, vibration-free speaker. Matrix bracing has been around in B and W speakers, but a new kind of bracing has been used in this new speaker – again, for lessening vibration and creating a stiff enclosure.

Again, and I cannot stress this enough (though I will keep on banging on about it), a whole load of effort had been put into the room, its vibe and how it felt when you walked in. Curtains around the room helped with acoustics, and there were standing tables and plenty of seating for most people…though there were still many standing, given how popular this room was.

SPL

Static stand and headphone system from SPL…we heard more from them as you will read later in the report, with Manger Audio.

GP ACOUSTICS

Another absolutely rammed room when we walked in, and it’s no surprise, given Anders from Hegel was making a presentation of a very capable-sounding system based around Hegel electronics and KEF loudspeakers that tipped the scales at around 11K Euros.

The presentation included the Hegel P30a/H30a amplification with KEF Blade One Meta (we didn’t get to hear this system, but it looked fab), the new KEF LS LUXE active wireless loudspeakers with KC62 subwoofers, and the recently introduced Hegel H200 ‘The Connected’ integrated amplifier with KEF R11 Meta floorstanders (the system we did get to listen to). The new Hegel H200 ‘The Connected’ integrated amplifier was driving KEF R11 Meta floorstanding loudspeakers.

The new H200 combines streaming, a DAC, MM phono input, analogue connections, a headphone output and USB-drive playback, with 150W of output power per channel. Hegel’s SoundEngine2 technology is used to reduce distortion in real time. The amplifier is specified as stable with loads down to 2 ohms and has a damping factor of more than 4000. This system provides a different approach to the other demonstrations, combining a connected integrated amplifier with a conventional passive floorstanding loudspeaker. This sounded really, really nice for such a modestly priced system – 11K.

I’m going to get bored of saying it, but this was another beautifully presented room with three systems laid out so the guys in the room could easily switch between them.

DALI

Sadly, the room was for timed demonstrations only. Lin managed to scoot in for some pics.

MORE MUSIC

Wow, this room was really hard to get into just before noon on the first day of the Dutch Audio Event, but Linette managed to bind-and-drive her way in to get some pictures, and I made a note to go back later and listen.

More Music were showing off the new Estelon Forza Ultra speakers, which are absolutely STUNNING looking and surely must be one of the best-looking speakers on the market today. They don’t sound too shabby, either. The speakers are making their global debut at the show. They have drivers that are from Accuton throughout – this is the first time they have been shown in any speaker. The speakers are 159K euros and upwards. The rest of the system was made up of the Aurendre N50 music server, dCS Varese DAC (a debut here, too), Moon 891 and 861 amps, Shunyata Research Everest X power conditioner, cables and Altaire X Grounding.

A quick mention of the available finishes on these speakers – they are exquisite, but then at this end of the luxury audio market, you’d expect them to be.

You can read more about the speakers and the tech in them by following this link.

Needless to say, the room was beautifully presented, and again, the brands had built a kind of room within a room.

THE AUDIO SPECIALISTS

After an excellent bowl of soup and a (zero) beer, it was on to where we had taken a break and into The Audio Specialists’ room. A couple of systems were set up in this room along with some nice static displays. The first system was made up of Tannoy speakers and T+A plus UltraFide electronics.

The second system was made up of Zeiler speakers and electronics. The Zeiler SP02 speakers are an interesting design, based around a “Professional 15-inch coaxial driver with elliptical 80 x 60° waveguide providing constant directivity, seamless coherence and great dynamic range…” They have a claimed sensitivity of 97dB and so should be a nice easy load for most amplifiers, including esoteric SET systems. Behind the SP02 speakers were the larger (much larger) SP01 that Ralf Zeiler describes as follows: “I see the SP-01 as a modern interpretation and a tribute to the iconic studio monitors from Tannoy and Altec, which served as the standard in recording and broadcasting studios during the 1960s and 70s.”

We were particularly drawn to the Form At Wood acoustic panels with a cool design and very nice looking integrated lighting.

This was a clever way to divide a large room into two distinct zones – there were hanging Edison lamps and planters to divide the room up.

DALI, NAD, BLUESOUND STATIC STAND AREA

The way the exhibition flows is excellent, and you often wander through some really interesting static stand areas as you head to the next listening room.

KLANGQ

SW1X valve-based electronics were partnered with MTR 963 Monitor Loudspeakers – single driver and crossoverless. The company is based in Essex and has been running for almost a decade. The electronics were all SW1X. The 2A3 mono power amps drove the speakers with interstage drivers. The monos were driven by the P5 preamplifier connected to the DAC 5. The streamer is the VDT4 that is based on tubes, which is a novel way of designing streaming – this is a unique product as far as I know.

Kii

Kii were showing off an absolutely mental record player with an optical cartridge; the turntable is by Miniot and is called the Wheel 3. Lots of people talked to us about this as we were walking around, and it was well worth making the time to see it. We got to hear the BXTs with the Kii3s speakers, and then, of course, there were the Kii 7s, which are fabulous speakers. The room was really busy, but we didn’t get to listen to any music…though walking past later Wim was obviously in metal mode playing the music that the crowd had demanded!

MANGER AND SPL

I’ve reviewed Manger speakers in the past, and I really enjoyed their delivery and effortlessness. At the Dutch Audio Event 2026, they were partnered with SPL electronics, which, as I keep saying, are one of the best-looking electronics brands in the HiFi game at this moment in time. The turntable was the Transrotor Massimo Nero TMD.

For those interested, the full system was the SPL Performer s1200 amp, the SPL Elector pre, the SPL Diamond DAC, the SPL phono duo (phonostage, surprisingly enough) and the Crossover MK2. The specific model of Manger speakers was the p2.

We got to listen to a bit of Peter Gabriel’s So album, which sounded really nice and unforced.

TERRASON AUDIO

Terrason Audio were playing the Accuvoice Systems Stream 3 active speakers. They also had other systems set up in the room from other brands they represent.

IDC KLASSEN

Q 5050 speakers fronted this system, but my attention was caught mostly by the CANOR electronics that included the Virtus I4S and the VERTO D4S (DAC). I’m in the middle of reviewing both of these products at the moment, and my initial thoughts are extremely positive about the integrated I4S. CANOR is from Slovakia and is mostly known for valve amps. The new one on me was the new CD transport from CANOR, the Gaia C4T. The whole system is around 10 grand, including the ISOTEK power treatment that makes up around 3K of that. This sounded very nice, and it kind of goes to show you that you needn’t spend a king’s ransom to get great sound in your home.

HIGHEND MUSIC

Highend Music had a big room with a great display of static gear, plus a couple of systems.

The first system, and the one I had a little time to sit in front of, was based around Wiim, Musical Fidelity, and ProJect, allied with Triangle speakers. This system was at the more budget end of the HiFi spectrum.

Firing down the length of the room was a more high-end system that was also based around ProJect, Musical Fidelity, and Triangle, though much higher up the food chain in terms of performance and price. The Musical Fidelity kit in this system was from the brand’s Nu-Vista range, and the speakers were the Magellan Cello 40th Anniversary editions from the French brand Triangle.

HEOS EXPERIENCE

This was a cool room that was centred around affordable lifestyle products from brands like Denon, Marantz and others. Just the kind of products we are focusing on in our Starting Out Pages.

AUER ACOUSTICS

AUER Acoustics had cleverly split their large room into two distinct spaces. First of all, you walked into a room where the brand had set up a static display. In the next room we had AUER Acoustics VERSURA V6 loudspeakers that made their debut at the Vienna High-End event earlier in the year. The VERSURA V6 features a solid tankwood cabinet, a diamond tweeter and four bass drivers in a sealed enclosure.

Power was supplied by Soulution 717 power amplifiers and they were also using Network Acoustics products.

The turntable was also from AUER Acoustics, and it was the first time I’d had a chance to sit in front of it for any amount of time. The name of the turntable is GAYA. The AUER Acoustics GAYA turntable features an aluminium drive assembly and a vinyl support plate designed to control resonance. Its modular construction allows customisation, with options including an air bearing to reduce mechanical contact and potential bearing noise, and a six-layer platter combining different materials to manage resonance. The turntable is paired with a tankwood rack to provide a stable, low-resonance platform. No price was given for it!

We passed the Auer room on Monday morning, and they were still dismantling the room within a room that they had built. This kind of dedication is hugely impressive!

LATHAM AUDIO

Latham Audio were showing a full NAIM and Focal system based around NAIM’s 300 series of electronics and the Focal Scala Utopia Evo M speakers at around 40K. IsoAcoustics footers were spotted in the room, which regular readers will know I’m a fan of.

The full system of electronics was: Naim NXS33, NAC 332, NAP 350 and NPX 300.

This was a busy room, but the highlight for me was a young woman walking in, a new song starting, and her face lighting up – the tune was clearly one of her favourites, and she sat down for the duration of the record and then another. Proof to me that if you can bring folk in with music they love, they will stay longer and listen more closely to the system they are in front of.

HELIOS

This, I think, was my first opportunity to sit for a proper listen in front of the ATC EL50 loudspeakers. The Active 3-way Tower uses ATC’s active tri-amplification, refined over decades, with dedicated amplifier channels delivering 200W for bass, 100W for midrange and 50W for high frequencies. Balanced inputs, adjustable sensitivity and active crossovers are included.

The amplifier pack has discrete gain stages and a revised power supply, with a toroidal transformer per channel and a separate low-voltage supply. ATC says this reduces distortion and improves headroom under demanding conditions. Drawing on its earlier elliptical cabinets, the enclosure has a curved front baffle and edges to reduce diffraction, increased stiffness and internal damping, and a machined aluminium ring reinforcing the bass driver mounting.

Finishes include hand-selected European walnut veneers, ebony rear detailing and napa leather around the midrange and tweeter. Alloy foot-bars for spikes and a magnetic fabric grille are supplied.

All drivers are designed and manufactured in-house, including the SH25-76S fabric-dome tweeter with a neodymium motor and the SM75-150S ‘Superdome’ midrange, covering 380Hz to 3.5kHz.

Other kit in the room was from Benchmark, Plixir and MUTEC.

Also in the room was an interesting active bass trap by AVAA, about which I will find out more and which I will hopefully get in for review in due course.

AUDIOQUEST

Cable brand Audioquest are always busy and always very well represented…they are also always very much on-brand wherever in the world you come across them.

They were running a demo when we were there, in Dutch of course, and the crowd were obviously very engaged.

PENHOLD

Penhold were a lovely oasis of calm, despite being really quite busy. The large room had a couple of systems. The first was made up of a Fezz Titania mk2 amp, Fezz Equinox DAC, and Lumin U2 Mini streamer with an Sbooster power supply. The speakers were the Pylon Audio Jasper 23 MK2. The whole lot makes for a sub-20K system.

The second system was made up of a Michi X430, Michi Q430, Lumin T3X, Lumin N1, a Thorens TD 404 DD, TAS1600, MC1600, TPN124, and fronting the system was a pair of Paradigm Premier V2 series 820F speakers at less than 3500 a pair. I found it very interesting that a pair of speakers at this price point were put in this system, but the results were pretty amazing, actually. We got to listen to Moroder by Daft Punk on vinyl, and it was a very nice-sounding and pretty compact system.

SUNDAY MORNING AT THE DAE 2026

The queues for the show were big again even well before the show opened, which has got to be a good sign. We had breakfast, formulated a plan of attack and then headed out for the day’s entertainment.

VOICE VICTORY

We’ve heard Voice Victory before and really enjoyed their system, but it’s always difficult to make a proper judgement at shows, and for this reason a full system of their products is making its way to Janine for review on HiFi PiG in the next week or so – keep an eye out for the review when it lands.

This is an interesting company with an interesting take on putting a system together. At Dutch Audio Event 2026, they had three of their complete systems on display and playing in a very simple but nicely put together room.

Pop was the system we got to listen to. It’s a full system comprising an 80cm 2-way loudspeaker with a Voice Victory Nilai amplifier and an Eversolo streamer/DAC – essentially, everything you need to hear your music without having to invest in a gazillion boxes. The other systems were the slightly larger Premium at 100cm tall and 200 W, and the Supreme that is 120cm and 300W.

Voice Victory people also deal with interior decoration and were showing off some rather lovely lights that Linette was taking a very keen interest in.

AEQUO AUDIO

I have a real soft spot for AEquo Audio products, and this is in no small part because the people behind the business are such lovely people – remember, this may well be a business about sound and design, but it’s also about people and human interaction!

AEQUO were partnering with Westminster Lab amplification, Playback Design, and TAIKO Audio. You can expect to see all these products at Audio Show Deluxe in March of next year in the Chapel Room – it’s a not-to-miss room!

Playback Design are distributed in the UK by Manor Audio, and whilst they may be a relatively unknown entity at the moment, based on this partnership at Dutch Audio Show, they will become a staple of the high-end in the UK.

The Aequo speakers are the Ensium model. These are 129 kg speakers that have a frequency response of 16Hz (yes, that is correct) to 45kHz. They are made of DILUTIVE NANOCAST – MMC with inserts of the same kind of product. This is to strengthen the enclosure and offer a totally resonance-free enclosure.

If you can’t make Audio Show Deluxe in March, then you should make some other arrangements to get a listen to these speakers and electronics because, based on this Sunday morning’s performance, they are really fabulous as a whole system.

STATIC STANDS

More stands as we walked to the next room, the Analogue Audio Association had their magazines and records, plus some very interesting vibration-reducing devices….very effective looking from the test using a vibration plate. Music Edition had records, mags, CDs and accessories.

HEAR EVERYTHING AND TONALITY IMPORT

CEC CD2N with the built-in DAC fed the Merrill Audio Element 116 MX, and the Merrill Audio Rose QX preamplifier connected to the Guru 42 floorstanding loudspeaker. This is a pretty compact system but punches well above its weight in terms of sound quality, playing some plinksome and plonksome jaaazz (sic). Actually, it was a really nice way to ease ourselves into the mid-morning at the Dutch Audio Show. Actually, these little Guru speakers never fail to impress me at shows with their ease of delivery and big soundstage from such a small speaker.

There were two other sets in the room. The first was the Feickert Volare with an Ikeda tonearm with an Airtight cartridge with the Step 2 Reference SUT, and ATC5S preamplifier with phono, going into the Avantgarde Opus loudspeakers costing around 13K. This isn’t the first time I’ve heard these speakers, but for the money they are unbelievably capable and could be used independently of all the rest of the front end. We’re fans of Avantgarde, anyway, but their bigger speakers are rather pricey (we use their DUO XDs), but this puts their horn technology into an all-in-one package that is relatively affordable and looks really fabulous – wonders to self if they do a pink version. Great to hear our mate Hans Theesink getting an airing in his own country. Interesting coincidence: Lin and I share the same wedding anniversary as Hans and his wife.

The second set had the same front end but with the ATM 300B R amplifier into the new Rogers PM510MK3. The speaker is kind of an old design that has been completely revamped and brought bang up to date. This is a big speaker that looks like what I consider to be a proper-looking, traditional loudspeaker. We got to listen to some more of Hans, and it was clear from the very first few bars that we were listening to a very capable loudspeaker. Out of these three, the Rogers did it for me.

ELECTRIC IVY

Electric Ivy (prize for the coolest name of the show is in the post) were playing a Vertere DGX turntable with the new swappable arm/cartridge. This facilitates cartridge changes in just a couple of minutes. The new Vertere phono and Linear phonostage were playing into the W5 Boenicke passive speakers being powered by a Trilogy 921 amplifier.

The small and relatively compact speakers were making really nice noises, and it was cool to see such small speakers making such a good sound. I’ve not always enjoyed Boenicke speakers when I’ve heard them at shows, but at the Dutch Audio Event and in the Electric Ivy room, they sounded excellent. Perhaps the Trilogy/Boenicke mix is one to take a listen to in more depth sometime! I was told that this is the MK2 version of the speaker with a new wideband driver, and this might well explain my sudden liking for these diminutive loudspeakers.

TEMPORAL COHERENCE & HEPTA DESIGN

We bumped into the chap (Hans) from Temporal Coherence in the bar last night, and I mentioned to him that I always enjoyed his demonstrations at the Dutch Audio Event, despite never understanding a word of what was being explained. His enthusiasm and obvious total belief in what he does are patently clear, despite the language differences. The audience was obviously very interested in what Hans had to say, and he’s obviously got some kind of cult following in the Netherlands.

We got to listen to some Dire Straits, and it was certainly a good-sounding system.

YABBA AUDIO

Yabba Audio were showing off a few of the brands that I’ve followed for years. First up is Transrotor, the German turntable manufacturer; next is Italian electronics brand Unison Research and their new, and rather cool-looking Unicorn Pre and DM. At the front end was a pair of Opera Callas standmounts.

This was a nicely put together room with the main system at the front and with a static display of the company’s other wares, including the excellent Volumio brand from our friends in Italy.

MONITOR AUDIO AND ROKSAN

The Monitor Audio 300 Silver series speakers G8 were playing when we went into this room. On the electronic side, we had the Caspian pre-amp and power combo from Roksan. Cables were from Wireworld, and power conditioning was by Isol-8. I will be absolutely honest and didn’t really expect to enjoy this room as much as I did, but I was really very pleasantly surprised at the sound I was hearing.

ELECTRIC IVY 2

Electric Ivy had a second room based around the excellent-sounding Basel Acoustics speakers from, surprisingly enough, Switzerland. Electronics in this case were by Wattson Audio. A higher-end Vertere turntable was also in evidence.

For my ears, this was a contender for Lin’s and my Golden PiG…but we’ll get to that later when we have had the required discussion.