by Michael

CES ANNOUNCEMENT: Audio Federation is new Audio Note U.K. Importer / Distributor

It is with great pleasure that we accept the honor of being the U.S. distributor for not only one of the best lines of high-end home audio equipment in the world, bar none – but one of the largest as well.

The Audio Note product line comprises several hundred products and stretches from excellent price /performance for the frugal audiophile to excellent price / PERFORMANCE for the extremely ambitious audiophile, along with lots of juicy stuff for everybody in between.

Audio Federation carries only product lines that have proven themselves to be of unusually high quality – based on application of our well-published methodologies – and Audio Note U.K. has proven themsevles several times over here at the ‘Audio Federation Proving Grounds’.

As the Audio Note importer, we will be able to help put even more, higher quality, better sounding [aka ‘more better’] equipment into the hands of more people. This has been and always will be Audio Federation’s raison d’être

As we continue to expand our repertoire here with respect to Audio Note we will continue to fully support and work closely with each of our product lines. All of the product lines we carry bring something to the party, and are fully able to compete side-by-side in any fair competition.

[Not quite STAY TUNED FOR AN OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT-speak, and I just couldn’t bring myself to write in that oh so common PRESS RELEASE-speak. BO-ring. So what we have here is perfect Audio Federation Blog-speak… and I should know 🙂 …you got your soto voice and smiley faces and … everything.

Anyway, we are really psyched and look forward to supporting the Audio Note dealer network, Audio Note owners, and all ya audiophiles-at-large so that as many people as possible get to hear what this stuff can do. WE are impressed, and we think most of you will be too.

We haven’t mentioned this to anyone in the industry… until now – so all you out there are getting the news at the same time. This neatly solves / sidesteps our problem of in what order we were going to have to let everyone in on the news. :-)]

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 by Michael

Next stop: Sunny (aka NOT SNOWING!) CES 2007 and Las Vegas

It is not so much that it is snowing a lot here compared to, well, some of the places where you all live, but that we are unprepared for this.

If it snowed like this all the time then we would have snow blowers and a plow person and more snow shovels (we are down to one, two broke today).

We actually had a plow guy, for several years, but he is a whiner, and that was when it only snowed about 3 to 5 times a Winter anything more than 3 or 4 inches, usually maxing out at 12 inches or so.

Anyway, weather either goes back to normal or we get a snow blower and a real plow guy. Enough is enough, and that was today.

We are packing the car with gear for THE SHOW for the Audio Note room – and to get the gear, get it in to the car, and get the car out of Boulder is taking some doing. But we are good to go, assuming the weather stays dry for another 12 hours or so…

By the way, I, through the blog or show reports, call this show ‘CES’, even though high-end audio will be mostly at T.H.E. Show this year. That is because CES is what it is traditionally called, CES attracts 120,000+ people, and high-end audio, whether we are talking about the section that is part of CES itself, or not, only attacts a very small percentage of those people. It is like just another small ‘conference hall’ in the scheme of things considering the overall gigantic impact of a show this large.

We went to CES several times without seeing the real conference at all. We stil called it ‘going to CES’. Heck, many people who go to the main conference hall don’t see CES either, they only see 10% or so if they only have a limited time and/or interests.

So, it is not meant to be dissrespectful or to display my ignorance when I say ‘CES’ as an abbreviation for ‘high-end audio including T.H.E. Show at the St. Tropez, High Performance Audio at the Venetian, and the main conference halls ‘ .

When I display my dissrespect and ignorance, I do it in other, hopefully more sophisticated ways… 🙂

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 by Michael

The Las Vegas Show starts in a few days

Are we ready?

Are YOU ready?

CES 2007 Show Report home page
CES 2007 Show Report home page

We should be getting there late Saturday night, if all things go as planned.

We will be staying at the Alexis Park hotel, which is where last year’s CES High Performance Audio Show was held, and it is still next door to the T.H.E. Show aka the Home Entertainment Show, aka the St. Tropez aka the worst name for a show ever assuming that it WANTS people to be able to find it using Google [or you LIKE typing stuff like “home entertainment show las vegas”]

Getting there early lets us spend Sunday scoping out the environs and visiting a few exhibitors that we know well [another reason (the real one) is that we are (sacred poopless) trying to be flexible (tilting at windmills) what with the weather (rapid-fire blizzards) lately].

For this reason this year there will be a ‘pre-game show’ page with pictures of the hotels and stuff. We’ll see how this works out.

To bow to the people with poor eyesight and/or research skills, we have modified the links in the show reports to be a little bit more obvious:

CES 2007 Show Report links

For some reason I just don’t think this will make much of a difference… you either care to learn about who wrote what you are reading, assuming you can find out anything substantive about them at all, or you don’t.

Either way, it should be a blast to attend and hopefully a blast to read about.

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