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Florida International Audio Expo 2025 - Tampa, USA
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- Written by: Doug Schneider
- Category: Florida International Audio Expo 2025
Assessing the sound quality of any system—let alone an individual component—at a hi-fi show is nearly impossible. With unfamiliar rooms, components, and music selections, it’s difficult to determine much about any specific element. The only thing you can know for certain is whether the system sounds good at that moment. Nonetheless, we still attempt to compare systems, even in unfamiliar surroundings, by playing some of our favorite tracks as we move from room to room.
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- Written by: Jason Thorpe
- Category: Florida International Audio Expo 2025
For a while, I followed Doug Schneider around, checking out systems that people could actually afford. Although the socialist in me recognized this pursuit as valuable, it was mighty boring. While looking at $1500 amplifiers and $5000 speakers, I found myself mentally rolling my eyes, knowing there were other rooms jam-packed with systems that cost more than a house.
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- Written by: Jason Thorpe
- Category: Florida International Audio Expo 2025
One of my goals for day one was to find a room that (a) sounded great and (b) would add a zero to the price of one of Doug’s sensibly priced systems. I managed to satisfy both criteria in House of Stereo’s room. House of Stereo is a Florida-based retailer, and this room featured products by Electrocompaniet, Stenheim, and Nordost.
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- Written by: Doug Schneider
- Category: Florida International Audio Expo 2025
The Honda Civic and Toyota Corolla are my benchmark products for value in the auto and hi-fi industries. A quick Google search indicates that in the United States, the 2025 version of the former starts at $24,500 and the latter at $22,325.
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- Written by: Jason Thorpe
- Category: Florida International Audio Expo 2025
That’s a whole lot of very expensive wood, I thought to myself as I walked into the Volti Audio room and took note of the large, sumptuous New Vittora loudspeaker system—an update of the company’s original Vittora—which was making its world debut here at the Florida International Audio Expo.
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- Written by: Jason Thorpe
- Category: Florida International Audio Expo 2025
Occasionally, I’ll walk into a room and instantly know that the speakers, the room, and the electronics are right. There’s a sense of cohesiveness to a room that’s right. After experiencing room after room where the music is missing that elusive something, you’ll walk into one of these magic rooms, and within a single bar, you’ll just know.
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- Written by: Doug Schneider
- Category: Florida International Audio Expo 2025
From the outset, I knew that our coverage of this show would be an exercise in extremes. My sole reporting partner at this year’s Florida International Audio Expo is Jason Thorpe, senior editor of SoundStage! Ultra. So it made sense for Jason to focus on more expensive products. The subject of Jason’s first dispatch was the Oneiros loudspeaker by Oneiros Audio, which starts at $650,000 per pair (all prices in USD)—talk about extremes! After reading it, I knew I had to uncover some more affordable products.
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- Written by: Jason Thorpe
- Category: Florida International Audio Expo 2025
I first met Jonathan Magnus Cook when he greeted me at the door of the Ø Audio room in Warsaw at Audio Video Show 2024. At that time, they were playing some seriously ominous metal. I turned to Cook and asked about this terrifying music, which was being played at a very high volume. “This is Norwegian metal,” he responded. “We are Norwegian.”
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- Written by: Jason Thorpe
- Category: Florida International Audio Expo 2025
There’s a lighted billboard on Interstate 75 just outside of Tampa. A big one. “ONEIROS—WORLD-CLASS AUDIO,” it exclaims, pointing viewers toward the Florida International Audio Expo at the Sheraton Tampa Brandon. Oneiros Audio clearly took this to heart. Here they were, jumping into this big-speaker thing without restraint.
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