Audio Note at CES at Alexis Park
[Neli is helping me here with this post. Hope it gets done this year… well, we have 6 hours, should be enough?]
We have two rooms again this year. One has a modest system and one… does not.
The Modest, Down-to-Earth System
AN/E SPe HE speakers (98dB High efficiency with the hemp drivers – the ones that were brand new at CES last year, now much more broken in)
Oto Phone SE integrated amplifier
CD 2.1x/II CD player
TT2 turntable with ARM Three arm and S4 stepup transformer IO1 cartridge
AN/Vx interconnects, Lexus XL speaker cable
The Over The Top System
AN/E SEC Signature loudspeakers in Madrone with external crossovers – high efficiency with the new tweeters. [uh. brand spanking new. Well, we have the weekend to break them in, Whoo Hoo.]
Kegon Balanced [Brand spanking new. Detecting a pattern here?]
M9 Phono preamplifier [graciously on loan]
DAC 4.1x Balanced DAC
CDT-Three transport
TT3 Reference turntable with AN1S arm, IO Gold cartridge and AN-S9 step-up transformer.
SOTTO interconnects and the new SOGON [50] interconnects and speaker [96] cables
HRS (Harmonic Resolution Systems) SXR 3-shelf equipment rack and 8 M3 Isolation Bases [i.e. 5 on the floor as they say]
So yer sayin’ the CD4.1x didn’t make it? Rats. Rats, rats, rats. Don’t forget to bring the USB baby DAC 0.1x!
The “Peter” room really isn’t over the top for Audio Note – not Sogon speakers, not the Gaku-Ons . . . . 😉 Pretty firmly pressed up against the ceiling, though!
Hope the snow lays off for the next week in your neck of the woods!
Hi Dave.
As far as we *know* it didn’t make it. But you never know… maybe it’ll get brought over on the plane.
We’ll try and get the DAC in. We are trying to get us both and the equipment into one car now. You know how couples bitch each other out during long 12 hour trips like this? Well, one positive thing about it is that it does make the time go by a lot faster 🙂
You’re right, the room really isn’t Over The Top – but it really isn’t Peter’s room, it is ours. Or perhaps more likely, Neli’s and Peter’s as I am going to be photographing the show[s] and I think Peter won’t mind spending his time with Neli and the ‘Almost Over The Top’ system.
It is supposed to [50% chance] snow on Friday – so we are leaving a day early. And the shipment from the olde country just left customs today and is just being forwarded to the Las Vegas – arriving, we hope, Friday. As an emergency precaution, we are shipping it to a secondary shipper who is actually going to be open Saturday morning – the primary shipper is closed weekends [Las Vegas is not a real city?].
Oh, and the graciously donated M9 Phono [thanks Nick!] won’t be there until Monday [and ours is still being built]. So we are bringing an old M1 we have as a ‘stand-in’. Whatever, we need to try and run the system all weekend and get the speakers and amps broken in and warmed up.
Thanks, and see ya soon!
Mike.
OK, it looks like we ARE going to be able to squeeze in the DAC 0.1x. It might be a little smaller than it used to be [and it was pretty small to start with!]…
Take care,
Mike.
nice update, thanks
Audio Video forum
Hi Jason,
Not sure if you are associated with The LiveCentral – or just hired to post links like this on blogs on the net… but…
People, we are happy to hear about other Audio sites and you can post links to them and, hopefully, talk a little about what they do that is great and/or unique.
This particular site is a few months old and is a combination news, reviews, and a forum. A little lower end than our site here… but there is some interesting stuff – especially music-wise.
Thanks,
Mike.