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It’s back to some normality in the office with JAVA’s return to the motherland after a three week audiophile globetrot. The Warsaw Audio Video Show and Capital Audiofest are done and dusted - and what a time we had!

Over three days at Capital Audiofest with our US distributor Robyatt Audio, we had several thousand people visit Room 719 at the Rockville Hilton.

The feedback on the sound quality in our room was incredible - plenty of "best sound in show" comments, with many visitors staying in the room for 30 minutes or longer, entranced by the music playing on the system assembled by Robyatt Audio owner, Robin Wyatt.

The crowd-drawing system was comprised of;

• Source (digital): Small Green Computer Company server running Roon Core and Sonore OpticalRendu

• Source (analogue): Michell Gyrodec SE turntable with Sorane SA1.2 tonearm and Miyajima Labs Carbon cartridge

• Amplifier: JAVA Single Shot integrated amplifier

• Speakers: Quad 2812X loudspeakers

• Cables: All cabling by Finley Cables

A beautiful moment from the final day of the show; I was in control of the music in the room and I queued Cassandra Wilson’s cover of Neil Young’s ‘Harvest Moon’.

The song played to a packed room and you could have heard a pin drop - Wilson’s presence was almost palpable and the audience was spellbound. When the song finished, I looked up from the iPad screen to see tears streaming down the face of a man seated in the centre of the front row.

Before he left the room, he came up to me to say that the song was one that had played at his wedding, but he had never before heard it rendered with such expression and emotional gravitas. His reaction almost brought tears to my eyes too and reminded me of why we do what we do. To connect listeners to the intangible soulful essence of the music they love. And that day, in that moment in Room 719 of the Rockville Hilton, that’s exactly what we did.