April 8, 2024
The “Best of Show” award
“On the 15th floor, I got to hear one of my perennial favorites, the $91k MBL 101 MK II omnidirectional loudspeakers, driven by MBL 9011 mono amps and sourced by the MBL C41 streaming DAC driving the amps directly. Given the nightmare difficulties he faced, the fact that Jeremy Bryan managed to put on a show at all is a story in itself, but that he did so well at it is a wonderment. This was just the best system I’d heard at that point in tine—the first 3-D soundfield without the forwardness and upper midrange edge that was almost everywhere else. Airy, spacious, open, fast, beautiful, and eerily three-dimensional sounding, this was another contender.” - Jonathan Valin , Apr 18, 2024