Franco Serblin – Ktena speakers and Air Tight amps

Franco Serblin – Ktena speakers

Basis Insipiration turntable

Inside a Velodyne subwoofer

TiDal speakers sounded good on Constellation amps

Nittobo Acoustic ‘Acoustic Groove System’ room treatments worked well here according to Santy (Tri) [I did not get to hear the ‘before’ room treatment sound]

The big Venture speakers sounded better than I think I’ve heard them before as well (those are Venture’s amps as well).

The big Sonus Faber speakers are nicer looking this year, huh? Last year must of been some kind of cosmic ray thing…

The big MBL speaker room was entertaining.

The new Hansen speaker look. I like the old melted look, myself.

This YG Acoustics system with the Tenors sounded better than at RMAF – perhaps because the source was a CD player, when I was there, and not a hard drive?

The inside of a Tenor amp

The large Magico Q7 speakers.

Yes, of course we will say something about the sound, and several 1000 more photos, but first, got to get back and listen more! 🙂

Seems like less traffic than last year. Nice and calm means more time for listening, which is nice. Try to get as many photos up here in the evenings…

Cute little Chord Chordette (about 6 inches long).

A really cool looking amp from Jones. The ventilation holes on top are made in this kind of organically random pattern. The box itself is… not boxy! and the front panel is on the corner. Just so cool.

New Clearaudio ‘Master Innovation’ turntable ($27,500).

Napa Acoustic amp – very inexpensive (I think less than $1000) and very cute. And very, very high price performance.

Light Harmonic DAC. Another non-boxy component… looks like a stealth fighter jet, kind of – supports WiFi and takes streams directly from your smartphone.

Peak Consult’s Kepheus speakers. $110,000.

HRS SXR Signature (left). See the new cross braces on the top shelf which we took the platform off? These cross braces appear on the other shelves as well. New RXR prototype, HRS quality at a much lower price point.

Acoustic Signature’s Master Series ‘Ascona’ turntable. About $27K. Definitely a contender from based on what I heard.

Audio Note (UK) TT3 0.5 ‘half reference’ turntable (first time at a show in the U.S.). Much of the performance of the TT3 but with only 1 giant power supply box instead of 3.

Or as CES calls it, High Performance Audio. Good name too, I think.

We are driving to Vegas early tomorrow morning.

We will be posting news here to the blog.

The full show report will be spread between this blog and our Show Galleries.

We hope to cover each component in every room. One advantage to fewer rooms and fewer attendees is that I get to spend more time listening and less time jostling 🙂

Really looking forward to Tuesday….!