55 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. Which are playing in the rooms changes through the year, so ask before you visit.
KEF
Blade One Meta
The single apparent source: twelfth-generation Uni-Q with Metamaterial Absorption, four force-cancelling bass drivers, handmade in Maidstone, England.
$34,999.98 per pair
MakerFocal
Grande Utopia EM Evo
Two metres tall and 265 kg: a four-way with an electromagnetic 40 cm woofer and a pure beryllium tweeter. Focal calls it one of the best loudspeakers in the world.
Price on application
MakerDALI
KORE
DALI’s own words: the best speaker they have ever created. Revealed at Munich High End 2022 and built in Denmark around two 11.5-inch SMC bass drivers and the EVO-K hybrid tweeter.
Price on application
MakerParadigm
Persona 9H
Flagship of the Persona series: beryllium tweeter and midrange, hybrid active bass with four 8.5-inch woofers and Anthem Room Correction built in. Crafted in Canada.
Price on application
MakerATC
EL50 Anniversary
The latest evolution of ATC’s legendary SCM50, fully active with discrete tri-amplification, in a new curved cabinet of European walnut, ebony and Nappa leather. First run of fifty pairs.
$99,999 per pair
MakerLegacy Audio
Valor
Nearly six feet tall and 300 lb a side, with 2,750 watts of internal power per speaker and a 64-bit processor correcting the room. Fifteen finishes.
$100,000 per pair
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
MakerCabasse
La Sphère
A sphere that is a complete four-way coaxial system with eight monoblocks and 96 kHz DSP inside. The single point source, taken to its conclusion.
€120,000 per pair
MakerELAC
Concentro M 807
The pinnacle of ELAC’s Concentro 2.0 line: a four-way with eleven drivers including the JET 6c tweeter and two side-firing 250 mm woofers, on an aluminum isolation base.
Price on application
MakerNaim
Statement
Not a speaker but the amplifier to drive any of them: NAC S1 preamplifier and NAP S1 monoblocks, 746 watts each into 8 ohms, built around a 4,000 VA transformer. Unveiled at CES 2014.
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.
Ask for US pricing
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.
Waiting list, price on application
Maker
01
Loudspeakers
Floorstanders and standmounts, including the three European marques we import ourselves.
12 brands
02
Electronics
Integrated amplifiers, preamplifiers and power amplifiers, solid state and tube.
13 brands
- NaimReference
- Hegel
- NAD
- Krell
- Parasound
- Musical Fidelity
- Electrocompaniet
- Unison Research
- Zesto Audio
- Synthesis
- Peachtree Audio
- NuPrime
- Audio Control
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.
7 brands
- Artcoustic
- Origin Acoustics
- Stealth Acoustics
- Earthquake Sound
- Artnovion
- Artison
- 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.