50 brands on demonstration
One standard: it has to sound real.
Dave has no single allegiance. The house is set up like a lab, with American and European brands side by side, so you can hear what changes when you swap an amplifier, a speaker or a cable, and decide for yourself.
The reference collection
Flagships and icons from the brands we carry, from the speakers to the streamers and amplifiers behind them. Which are playing in the rooms changes through the year, so ask before you visit.
Loudspeakers
KEF
Reference 3 Meta
KEF calls it the benchmark of hi-fi speakers, condensed: the twelfth-generation Uni-Q driver with Metamaterial Absorption and two 6.5-inch bass units, hand-built in Maidstone, England, every pair matched within half a decibel.
Price on application
MakerFocal
Diablo Utopia Colour Evo
Focal’s reference standmount, inspired by the Grande Utopia: a pure beryllium inverted-dome tweeter and a 6.5-inch “W” woofer in a cabinet of 86 lb a side.
Price on application
MakerATC
SCM40
A three-way floorstander built around ATC’s own 75 mm soft-dome midrange, with a 25 mm neodymium tweeter and a 164 mm bass driver.
Price on application
MakerLegacy Audio
Signature SE
Legacy’s sealed-cabinet floorstander: two air motion tweeters, a 7-inch carbon-fiber midwoofer and two 10-inch aluminum woofers. Handcrafted in Springfield, Illinois.
Price on application
MakerAlta Audio
Adam
A three-way tower with Alta’s third-generation ribbon tweeter, an underhung wide-band midrange and extended transmission-line bass. New York built.
Price on application
MakerArion Audio
Apollo
A four-part system from a maker founded in New Jersey: line-array dipole towers of nine or twelve AMT drivers each, separate open-baffle bass modules, and a processor with room correction. Designed and built in-house.
Price on application
MakerCabasse
Baltic 5
The world’s first three-way coaxial satellite, now in its fifth generation: tweeter, midrange and bass in one Cabasse-made driver, on a sculpted stand.
Price on application
MakerJern
14 EH
A compact monitor cast as a single piece of graphite-laced iron in Aars, Denmark, with a Hiquphon tweeter and Scan-Speak woofer. Pair it with a good subwoofer and it embarrasses far bigger boxes.
Price on application
MakerWaterfall Audio
Niagara XT3
The flagship glass floorstander: two Atohm bass drivers, a passive radiator and a silk-dome tweeter in a decoupled glass horn, on a base machined from one block of aluminum. Waiting list only.
Price on application
Maker
Sources and amplification
Matrix Audio
MS-1c
The newest member of Matrix Audio’s flagship M Series: a streamer and DAC built around AKM’s AK4499EX, with Lundahl transformers in the analog stage and the volume control to drive a power amplifier directly.
Price on application
MakerCoda
Continuum No. 8
A stereo power amplifier from Coda’s Continuum Series, built around a 3.0 kVA toroidal transformer and 20 output transistors a channel, with its first watts in pure Class A.
Price on application
MakerAVM
CS 5.3
An all-in-one streaming CD receiver with a tube line stage, 350 watts a channel and AVM’s X-Stream Engine for hi-res streaming. Handmade in Malsch, Germany.
Price on application
MakerNaim
300 Series
Naim’s reference stack below the Statement: NSS 333 streamer, NAC 332 preamplifier and NAP 350 mono power amplifiers built around the Statement’s own output transistors. Designed and built in Salisbury, England.
Price on application
Maker
01
Loudspeakers
Floorstanders and standmounts, including Jern, the cast iron monitors we import ourselves.
11 brands
02
Electronics
Integrated amplifiers, preamplifiers and power amplifiers, solid state and tube.
12 brands
03
Digital and streaming
DACs, streamers and music servers.
7 brands
04
Analog
Turntables, tonearms and cartridges.
3 brands
- Rega
- Merrill-Williams
- Acoustical Systems
05
Video
Projectors, screens and televisions.
6 brands
- Sony
- JVC
- Epson
- Samsung
- LG
- Screen Innovations
06
Custom installation
In-wall and in-ceiling speakers, acoustic treatment, subwoofers and control.
5 brands
- Artcoustic
- Stealth Acoustics
- Earthquake Sound
- Artnovion
- RTI
07
Cables, power and furniture
Cables, power conditioning, isolation and racks.
9 brands
- Wireworld
- EnKlein
- IsoTek
- Audio Magic
- IsoAcoustics
- Critical Mass Systems
- Solid Tech
- Salamander Designs
- BDI
Not on the list?
Ask anyway. Dave has probably sold it, set it up or lived with it.
Thirty years in New York high-end audio means a working knowledge of far more brands than fit in one house. If you are weighing something we do not carry, bring it up. You will get a straight answer.
Tell us what you are weighing up“I don’t have a one-size-fits-all philosophy. I’m trying to achieve the best of everything.”
By appointment, seven days
Compare them in the same room, on the same afternoon.
A private listening session in Jersey City, a home consultation, or a phone call with Dave. Evenings and weekends are no problem.