CES 2014 – Coming soon to a planet near you

A little over two weeks away.

EMMLABS

EmmLabs will be showing with their new MTRX amplifier [an older version of which was very popular at RMAF], with Kimber / ISOMike / Sony as usual but not on the sparsely populated floor 35 but down on Venetian floor 30 (rooms 30-308 and 30-310), with most everybody else.

LAMM

Haven’t heard what [presumably Wilson] speakers Lamm will be showing with in their big room.

OOPS. Wrong. The large room:

Verity Lohengrin II S speakers
Lamm ML3 Signature amps
Lamm LL1 Signatture preamp
Lamm LP1 Signature Phono
NeoDio NR32D “Origine” CD player
TechDAS Airforce 1 turntable, TDC-)1 MC cartridge
Grapham Elite and Phantom tonearms
Kanso Audio Kata 1W4S rack
Kubala-Sosna Elation cables

The Small room:

Wilson Alexia speakers
Lamm M1.2 Reference amps
Lamm L2 Reference preamp
Lamm LP2.1 deluxe phono preamp
Tech DAS AirForce 2 turntable
Graham Elite tonearm
TechDAS D-7 Supreme DAC
CEC model TL-1 transport (! :-))
Kanso Audio Hamoni rack
Kubala-Sosna Emotion cables

AUDIO NOTE

… stopped doing CES / THE Show a few years ago.

HRS

HRS will have their high performance audio stands in 12 active systems at CES. They also have their static display and meeting room which is 29-203 in Venetian.

Nagra – Mirage Hotel
dCS – Mirage Hotel
Ayre Acoustics – Venetian 34-310
Audio Research – Venetian 35-305
Wadia / McIntosh – Venetian 35-305
Vandersteen Audio – Venetian 29-201
Aesthetix – Venetian 30-136
Graham Engineering – 35-110
Constellation Audio – 30-326
Bel Canto / Joseph Audio / Cardas – Venetian 29-236
BSG – Venetian 29-220
Vienna Acoustics – Venetian 30-129

HRS Meeting Room and Static Display – 29-203

.. and some other rooms at the show:

PERFECT8

at T.H.E. Show, in the Flamingo Red Rock VIII room

Perfect8 THE FORCE MKII [glass] speakers ($325K)
Perfect8 THE RACK
Walker Proscenium Black Diamond V turntable ($105K – a bit more than when we carried these!)
VAC electronics
Stealth and Perfect8 cables

Hope it is warm this year… love it when it is in the 70s 🙂

We talk about doing different kinds of coverage for these shows – but we’ll see what actually happens [each year it seems to be often quite different from what we planned ;-/]