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January 12, 2015 by Michael

ACAPELLA AUDIO ARTS, Audio Federation: CES 2015

The ACAPELLA AUDIO ARTS, Audio Federation room at CES 2015. 21 photos.

This was our room.

Acapella Cellini speakers and LaMusika integrated amplifier, speaker cables and power cord.

Audio Note U.K. CDT-Five transport and DAC 5 Signature DAC and ‘brown’ PALLAS interconnect [acting as a digital interconnect].

NVS SOUND Silver Inspire power cord. Nordost Odin power cord.

Harmonic Resolution Systems (HRS) SXR rack, M3X Isolation Bases, and Nimbus Couplers.

I was really, really happy with the sound… about 5 minutes after close on the last day [I know. It is such a cliche. We hung out and played the system for a few hours after closing]. Neli and Hermann significantly improved the sound day to day, moving the speakers around a bit, changing cables a bit [the above list is the final configuration]. The Cellini speakers had about 10 hours on them. The DAC 5 Sig was brand spanking new. Yadayadayada [ same ole same ole 🙂 ]

Thanks to Jim for loaning us all his amp [the original LaMusika amp slated for this room was delayed in shipping for a day]. Thanks to Robert Lee [Acoustic Zen] and Santy [Twin Audio Video / Triode Corp] for lugging it to the show. Thanks to Peter Qvortrup [Audio Note] for loaning us the CDT-5 and DAC 5 Signature. Thanks to Nathan Vander Stoep [NVS Sound] for loaning us the power cable.

And thanks to everyone who stopped by!

Neli Davis (Audio Federation) and Hermann Winters (Acapella)

Neli, Hermann, Fred and Jim.

The Audio Note ‘brown’ PALLAS interconnect

See you all at Newport! [and hopefully at Munich before that…]

January 9, 2015January 22, 2015 by Michael

CES 2015 Show Report Index

This is our CES 2015 high-end audio show report. Enjoy!

[Featured photo from: Manley: CES 2015]

Herein are the links to the photos of each exhibit room at the show.

Thursday night. 51 exhibit rooms so far. Two wings of the 29th floor and a little of the 300 wing [the Venetian hotel is laid out in a star shape with 3 wings with a common center where the elevators are]. Expect there to be about 160 rooms in total. And about 2000+ photos.

Attendance was REALLY slow the first day, but picked up considerably the second. Even with some exhibitors coming over from the now defunct THE SHOW at the Flamingo, there are about the same number of rooms as last year [maybe a little bit more] which is about 2/3 of the number back in, say, 2006.

Still, it is a fun show, and very traditional with the requisite herds of CES ‘suits’ mixed in with the [mostly hardcore] audiophiles.

Back home. Sunday morning, 74 rooms so far. Ugh. Too early. Going back to sleep…

Back at it. Finished floor 29 [except Harmonic Resolution Systems (HRS). I skipped HRS, EMM Labs and Lamm (brands we carry) and saved them for later (they are not in the correct place in the overall timeline of my traversal of the show) for a time when I was not overwhelmed with the spectre of having to finish all these rooms in 4 days – and, you know, to set a spell and get updated and (really) to just chat and slack off a bit :-)].

Now on to floor 30. 90 rooms so far…

99 rooms… 107… 122…

Neli is down with a bad cold [always a hazard at these shows] and, although I’m still fighting it off, things are going slower here.

Updated the BAT, Scaena, and Chord pages with photos – these were locked the first day when I tried to visit them.

132 rooms … 143… [head starting to spin] … 158…

Fixed a few of the washed-out-by-the-sun photos in the Metronome room.

166 rooms… 170 … 177 rooms. 2500+ photos.

There were a few rooms at the Mirage I missed [Nagra and dCS I think], but it is just not worth the hour round trip [at least. The walk would take a half-hour each way, inside of the Venetian to inside of the Mirage, and it is HARD to find things in casino hotels. Seriously] for me to get photos for two [I think was all there was] rooms.

There were a few booths in the main part of the convention that extends to the Sands [attached to the Venetian] that I saw when I attended the Health And Technology part of CES for Yet Another Job I am associated with. But they are curiosities [IMHO] as opposed to OMG-type setups and we’ll post them in a bit.

Well, wouldn’t ya know it. I caught Neli’s bad cold. This is a sneaky one, attacking through many different vectors. Anyway, my mind is going Dave…

Reports

The SANDS (booths)

Floor 35

Floor 34

Floor 31

Floor 30 – Wing 300

Floor 30 – Wing 200

* ACAPELLA AUDIO ARTS, Audio Federation: CES 2015

Floor 30 – Wing 100

Floor 29 – Wing 300

Floor 29 – Wing 200