First day of Stereophile's HE 2006 show is history…

It was relatively quiet.

That was good for me – I could take lots of photos without disturbing too many people.

We wanted to get through each and every room the first day of the HE 2006 Show – and did except for two arms of three up on the 4th floor, and let’s see, the IsoMike room and another room which was holding formal demos (they had the Kuzma table, not sure what else). I’d say we covered around 80% of the rooms.

A lot of rooms weren’t completely done setting up, even by the end of the day.

The sound was really mixed, nothing overwhelmingly good or bad.

The best rooms so far were the likely suspects…

Lamm / Wilson
Audio Aero / WLM
MBL / MBL
Sonics / Connoisseur
Venture / Concert Fidelity
…
A lot of rooms might start sounding great… or they might putter out and crash into a bizzarro world of weird timbres, awful discontinutities, spectral warps and bright lights on a contagious hangover.

We’ll see!

I mean hear! of course.

Well…, both.

But everything was so cold….