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January 2, 2015 by Michael Davis

CES 2015: Show Report Preview

CES 2015: Show Report Preview

We are planning on a show report in the style of our recent RMAF 2014 show report last October.

Simple. Straight forward. Inclusive. Timley. Exhaustive. Exhausting [for both you, to read, and us, to walk through :-)]

Since there have been questions about maps, here is a “interactive map” of CES. Whereas a plain regular image would be fine, they have done up this thing that sucks the CPU power out of your computer and leaves it panting and out of breath.

But with that caveat: CES 2015 Interactive Maps

We are laving tomorrow morning [Saturday] with a car load of gear into which two human beings will be squeezed. Should have gone on a diet last month. Ugh. 🙂

Hope to see you all there – but if not, well, where were you?! [seriously, with so many shows, it takes a real effort to make them all. If they could push Las Vegas up into the 80s, the warmth would probably attract a few 10,000s more people… But it snowed there earlier this week. So…]

January 2, 2015 by Michael

CES 2015: Audio Note U.K. Preview

CES 2015: Audio Note U.K. is contributing a few pieces of awesome gear to our Acapella Audio arts / Audio Federation room this year at the Venetian Room: 30-225).

First in the chain is the mighty CDT-Five Transport (pictured above).

Second is the DAC 5 Signature (pictured below). This has been, and is still, the most… drug-like … DAC we have heard… and perhaps the most there ever can be. Any more and it would have to be listed as a controlled substance. 🙂