Göbel + WADAX + CH Precision + A/V RoomService

I couldn’t decide what was more impressive, the larger-than-life personality of Bending Wave USA distributor Eliot Goldman or the massive products shown in his WADAX/Goebel room. Either way, I was grateful for the room’s bright light, which gave everything a fresh-scrubbed sheen and made it much easier than most rooms to photograph.

Goldman brought his Stereophile-featured Göbel High End Divin Marquis loudspeakers ($80,000/pair) AND Madrid-manufactured WADAX digital front-end to the Capital Audiofest. That front end comprises the Atlantis Reference Transport ($59,800), Atlantis Reference DAC ($145,000), and Atlantis Reference Server ($70,000). Amplification was the CH Precision L1 Dual Mono Preamplifier ($34,500) with two Parasound JC1+ monoblock power amplifiers ($17,998/pair). Cabling was by Göbel: Lacorde Statement interconnects ($7000 for a 1m pair), Lacorde Statement speaker cables ($23,000/ for a 10′ pair), Lacorde Statement power cords ($8500 each), and Ethernet cable ($5100 for an unknown length). Norman Varney and A/V RoomService Limited’s Equipment Vibration Protectors (EVPs)—which I have found beneficial under my amplifiers—supported the WADAX gear.

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Shchedrin’s arrangement of Bizet’s Carmen Suite, Vladimir Spivakov conducting the Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, was reproduced with images of stunning precision and solidity stunning populating a soundstage of remarkable scale. Castanets and woodblocks danced well outside the speakers as massed strings swept me up and away with large dynamic strides.