{"id":19672,"date":"2025-05-12T17:29:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T17:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/margules.com\/?p=19672"},"modified":"2025-05-13T20:46:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T20:46:46","slug":"axpona-2025-best-of-show-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/margules.com\/en\/axpona-2025-best-of-show-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Margules Audio. AXPONA 2025 “Best of Show” Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

At one of the largest audio shows in the world, the prestigious magazine Audio Bacon<\/em> has awarded us the ‘Best of Show’ award.<\/h3>\n

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“In a show crowded with heavyweight, six-figure systems, Margules offered something far more rare\u2014tangibility. This wasn\u2019t just about resolution or scale; it was about feeling. I found myself so immersed in the music that I completely forgot to take photos, which, if you know my usual show habits, says everything.<\/p>\n

Julian Margules and I had a great conversation about his design approach, which centers on how we experience sound\u2014not just how it measures. In an untreated hotel room, the setup included the Century Overture Monitor Speakers, U280 30th Anniversary Special Edition Tube Amplifiers, SF220 Tube Preamplifier, MS-01 Music Server\/Streamer, and the QR2 AC Line Conditioner. Despite the modest space, the system played with coherence, richness, and rhythmic poise.<\/p>\n

Lene Marlin\u2019s\u00a0A Place Nearby<\/em> revealed a presentation full of breathy nuance, a warm yet detailed midrange, and a dimensional stage that felt remarkably alive. This was one of only two rooms I made sure to revisit. The warmth didn\u2019t come at the expense of precision\u2014transients were crisp, dynamics immediate, and the tonal balance felt wholly natural. The magic lies in Margules\u2019 ANA (Acoustic Neural Alignment) technology, which favors perceptual tuning over technical perfection. The result was a sound that was spacious, emotionally gripping, and\u2014most importantly\u2014deeply human.”<\/p>\n

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Jay Luong, Audio Bacon magazine<\/p>\n

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AXPONA 2025 \u2013 Show Report & Awards<\/a><\/h3>\n

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At one of the largest audio shows in the world, the prestigious magazine Audio Bacon has awarded us the ‘Best of Show’ award.   “In a show crowded with heavyweight, six-figure systems, Margules offered something far more rare\u2014tangibility. This wasn\u2019t just about resolution or scale; it was about feeling. I found myself so immersed in the music that I completely forgot to take photos, which, if you know my usual show habits, says everything. Julian Margules and I had a great conversation about his design approach, which centers on how we experience sound\u2014not just how it measures. In an untreated…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[420,422],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-margules","category-reviews","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/margules.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/margules.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/margules.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/margules.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/margules.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19672"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/margules.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19676,"href":"https:\/\/margules.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19672\/revisions\/19676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/margules.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/margules.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/margules.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/margules.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}