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Bending Wave Audio: Goebel, Riviera, Wadax, and Shunyata Research
Bending Wave has a secret weapon: Elliot Goldman. As I have come to learn, he is a master at setup. A true Jedi Knight of the dark speaker placement arts.
Better still is his excellent roster of brands. Elliot was showing the $60k Goebel Comtesse speakers driven by the Riviera Amp and Preamplifier, all fed by a very versatile Wadax Studio player and using Denali and Typhon conditioners, Altaira grounding, and Theta/Alpha/Sigma cables. The sound was pure, the soundstaging among the best of the show, and just supremely musical.
The Wadax Studio player was perhaps the real star at $40k. An absolutely beautiful piece in design that sounded as good as it looked. The noise floor was incredibly low which I attribute to the latest Shunyata gear of which I am also familiar. The new Tap-C filters and KPIP Version 2 are contributing to some of the best sound I have heard from the brand across the several systems I have heard it in, including my own recently. I am less familiar with Riviera but I took some close up photos and the finish is gorgeous. This was a Top Ten room for me. Everything worked, but the gut feeling I have is that Wadax and Shunyata have some winners on their hands.
Well done, Elliot. Elliot is about to open his new store in Boca Raton, so it might be worth a trip if you live in Florida. Boca is not a bad place to hang out in either.
