The MBL section was unclear and could be misinterpreted [at least, it was by Neli, but she is my wife, it is her job to missinterpret everything her husband says. But upon re-reading the section when awake, I decided, of my own free will, to improve it a minor amount :-]

The section realy addresses the ideas I have been thinking about how to get others involved in this hobby – and I have a tendency to use shorthand ‘key phrases’ which I know what I mean by but nobody else will, so…. I think it is better and clearer now. I hope.

Neli added significant content to the Cogent True-to-life horn, the Alexis Park ‘Continuum room’, the Acapella Violon room and the Globe Audio Marketing (Audio Aero) room and a number of other sections I can’t keep track of it all anymore: In a few days when google goes through the report search for “Neli says:”.

… more or less done. Spelling and factual corrections will be added over time – but the jist is now there….

CES 2006 Show Report

This year we have up approximately 1000 detailed pictures – with the commentary about each room that stood out in some way right there with the picture. Finally, we have our usual ‘Best of Show’ lists in the ‘Official Report’.

Enjoy!
Mike & Neli

THE CES 2006 SHOW REPORT

This year we tried to get to as many rooms as possible and are putting up as many of those pictures we took as were in focus and interesting.

Each picture has to cropped, resized and, often, tweaked (the Canon Rebel XL has real problemd with dark rooms and resolving shades of gray) in Photoshop.

One thing I came away with is just how much stuff is out there and how much effort everyone puts into their room – almost everyone brings a LOT of stuff to the show.

Next is to try and annotate each photo with technical details and any listening impressions we may have had.

In general our show reports tend to be more ‘experience-oriented’ (i.e. ‘what were these people thinking?’ or ‘the soundstaging is positioned in an arch above the speakers’) rather than ‘brochure-oriented’ (i.e. ‘the price per watt exceeds the national average of MOSFET-based amplifeirs by 100,000,000.6%…’). It was my fustration with the ‘brochureware’ that was passing for show reports in Stereophile that led me to start writing these show reports in the first place.

And, yeah, I am still sick as a dog (do dogs really get so sick?) and kind of ‘out of it’ – so here is the deal:

If you disagree with what I write, then I was mad with fever when I wrote it and didn’t know what I was saying. If, however, you do agree with what I have written, then I was recovering nicely and in complete control of my mental facilities – inasmuch as one is ever in control of such a thing.