Merlin Music Systems

(DAS offers his first pick for Best Sound at the Show) Bobby Palkovic at Merlin Music Systems showed his $4,500 VSM Loudspeaker to great effect. Merlin has been around been around for many years now and their experience shows. VSM stands for Very Scary Monitor and is a floor standing loudspeaker with a state of the art driver compliment. Their other speaker is the TSM (The Small Merlin) which is an exceptionally high-quality mini-monitor. Merlin took great care in proper placement of their speakers in the room and matched the VSM with fine components. The result was extraordinary detail and transparency coupled with great musicality. In my opinion, one of the three best sounding rooms at the show.

...Doug Schneider