January 15, 2012 by Michael

CES 2012 – Light Harmonic

Did not get a shot of the entire system in this room. The nice exhibitor was talking to me while I was in this room and as often happens, I forget to take this or that photo. In this case, the photo of the entire system.

The fella kept saying that he was playing music off his smartphone – and I kept asking did he really mean he was controlling the Aurender music server with his smartphone or was he really sending a ton of data over wifi from his phone over to the Da Vinci DAC. He seemed to indicate the latter – and if so, then it seems to me like the smartphone must a) have a lot of memory and b) the DAC must be doing a lot of buffering to handle the inevitable wifi dropouts and hiccups and c) this would be really cool. But none of the components seems to support this kind of thing, although the silver Light Harmonic box does not seem to be documented anywhere…

Light Harmonic’s Da Vinci DAC. Hard to see in this photos, but the white line on the side of the DAC ‘lights up’ – really accentuating its ‘stealth fighter’ look.