I was also there. The FR5 should never have been paired up with SR. I had the same terrible experience as Brian.
The FR20s sounded like they had potential. But the very deep bass was ill defined and the overall sound quite smeared. It had to be the room.
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correct
Sorry, no pictures. They all came out terrible.
My favorite room was the Acora room. $16K floorstanders were excellent.
The VSA display sounded excellent but not for the price IMO (>$200K)
I was blown away by a small floorstander, $5K/pair from a French company called Atlantis Lab, model AT-18. In fact my friend bought the show pair. I was only at the show for a few hours but I went back to listen to them 3 times.
I had dinner with J.R. Boisclair and Norman Varney of A/V Room Service. Norman is an “Acoustician” and an interesting and brilliant guy. His approach to speaker and component decoupling is intriguing. I might try some of his footers.
ps----A/V Room Service website is full of engineering based information. it’s fun to noodle around there.
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Overall assessment of the show:
The organizers seemed like nice people. They’re trying. But it was not in the same league as Axpona or Florida.
The room sizes were inappropriately small and just not fit for purpose.
I would go back next year because it’s less than an hour drive and it’s better than mowing the lawn.
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Thanks Ron!
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Hi Paul. Did you use an active crossover for biamping the M1200’s to the FR20’s
Thanks
Brent
They were just bi-amped. Just wired from amp to speaker. I did not see but I am guessing he used rca for one end and xlr for the other. I did not see which went to hi vs low. All the xover is in the speaker.
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My guess, but is an educated guess, is that the xlr went to the amp driving the midrange & tweeter and the rca went to the amp driving the bass.
Interesting show. Mid-size with some exotic but also well-known brands. Agree that the PSAudio room with the FR20s was too small for the system to really shine, they would have done better in a bigger room downstairs. I did have a chance to hear the FR5 room somewhat undisturbed, and with the REL support they sounded phenomenal. Amazing soundstage. The little black blocks on the ceiling maybe helped 
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Gear was simply an air lens plus the strata integrated. Much better fit with the room. There was also mega expensive large Borresen room, they look all swoopy and stunning but I thought sound was so-so. Same with Burmester, did not rock my boat. Discovery of the show for me was also these French Atlantis Labs AT18s. Unreal how well these compact floor standers filled a large room. They have a driver on the back I saw. Very neat were also these Technics CX700, not cheap but stunning what they can make a fully active speaker do, bass was amazing.
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Second person to mention those Atlantis Labs AT18s. I missed them. Sad.
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Nope. The PMG preamplifier has two sets of XLR outputs and we used those to feed directly the 1200s. Then, we cabled up to the FR20’s bi-amped inputs using the speaker’s internal crossover.
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That is cool
They were truly amazing.
Biamped M1200’s? RIP Bascom, RIP BHK amplifiers.
The end of BHK 600 amps? Or just a lightweight travel option for PS Audio?