A new Radiohead album is being released by the band:
It is downloadable (MP3 and uncompressed WAV) on Saturday. We hope to hear it Sunday [thanks Mike!] burned on a CD. We will be playing it through the Audio Note CDT-5, Fifth Element and Fifth Force digital and perhaps also the Emm Labs XDS1 and 1) see how it compares to ‘CD quality’ and 2) hear their new album 🙂
“The 1st CAF went so well that we are having a second! We had approximately 500 people in attendance not including the vendors and manufacturers and plan to have many more for this event.
We are now looking to fill the rooms for the 2011 CAF and have lots of interest for the 2nd event. The 2010 CAF went as planned being a casual fun-filled event for audiophiles, music lovers, music media and vintage audio gear collectors, dealers and manufacturers. Families and many couples came to the event which you don’t see that often. Yes the WAF was felt by all. Great food and beverage (Adult beverages too!) were enjoyed by many. The event included high quality vacuum tube and transistor audio equipment, analog and digital playback sources, buying and selling of vinyl LP records and CDs, and retailers and manufacturers of quality audio gear from the Baltimore – Washington DC Metropolitan Area and beyond. Saturday night we had a live Jazz show with DC native master drummer Nasar Abadey and Supernova and even the host joined in for two numbers (They humored me)! The Sunday Audio Swapmeet went off well with many early morning risers prowling the tables for gear. ”
We’re about ready to head on out…
Here we see what was the current state of things, with the Audio Note CDT-Five transport and Fifth Element DAC and its Fifth Force power supply going through… the Lamm preamp and amps in this case.
Have a lot to say about this digital front end, and how it compares with the just-a-few-steps-down AN DAC 4 Balanced and CDT-Three transport.
But now, we need to be getting out of here and down to cold, snowy Las Vegas and T.H.E. Show and CES.
The plan is to post photos and news here fairly steadily during the show. Hopefully something interesting will be there … beyond what we are taking, of course 🙂
‘Till Vegas then…
