KYRON GAIA EVOLUTION

Back in 2011, the Australian Audio & AV Show was a great excitement in itself. For the previous decade there had been no proper hotel-based hi-fi shows in Australia at all, so the organisers had no template to work from, making the choice of a high-class Melbourne CBD hotel a bold start to the enterprise. It was a success, with some world-class demos and some world-beating loudspeakers: Cabasse had its giant eyeball-like La Sphere, Bowers & Wilkins its 800 Series, and some notably impressive presentations from local brands including SGR Audio, W.A.R. and VAF Research.

But there was little debate about which room should win Best Sound in Show. The accolade went to an Australian newcomer with an extraordinary high-end 20-driver loudspeaker system which didn’t merely amaze everyone who saw it, it left all who heard it positively breathless at the extraordinary realism and effortless power it delivered; it was like nothing else at the Show, and like nothing else in the hi-fi market. The company was Kyron, and that all-conquering speaker system was Gaia.

And now, 11 years on, and with several other systems under its belt, Kyron has revisited that Gaia design to create a new system, which it calls Gaia Evolution.

FROM SCRATCH TO GAIA

You don’t need our descriptive powers to realise how unusual is the Gaia Evolution system in design terms: just