Esoteric goes for world domination:

1/6/2008 ESOTERIC(R) INTRODUCES NEW “X” SERIES PLAYER FOR CD/SACD

1/6/2008 ESOTERIC(R) INTRODUCES HYBRID TRIOIDE TUBE AMPLIFER MODEL A-100

1/6/2008 ESOTERIC(R) INTRODUCES FIRST PREAMPLIFIER MODEL C-03

1/6/2008 ESOTERIC(R) SHIPS 2 NEW MASTER CLOCK SIGNAL GENERATORS FOR AUDIO VIDEO APPLICATIONS

1/6/2008 ESOTERIC(R) P-03/D-03 SELECTED AS EXCLUSIVE SOURCE COMPONENT FOR KEF MUON USA INTRODUCTION

1/6/2008 ESOTERIC(R) LOUDSPEAKERS NAMED INNOVATIONS 2008 HONOREE BY CONSUMER ELECTRONICS ASSOCIATION

1/6/2008 ESOTERIC(R) INTRODUCES RE-MASTER OF BEETHOVEN OVERATURES CONDUCTED BY SIR COLIN DAVIS

1/6/2008 ESOTERIC(R) INTRODUCES HI-END WIRE AND CABLE LINE AT CES 2008

ARC searches for lowest common [workable] denominator

1/6/2008 ACOUSTIC RESEARCH WIRELESS HOME THEATER SOLUTIONS PROVIDE TRUE “CD” QUALITY SOUND

Another year another “yeah, it’d be nice”

Logitech Transforms PC Audio into High-Performance Theater Sound

and…

The Doctor and the DJ Convene between the Sheets: World’s Smartest Bed Alleviates Snoring, Monitors Body Movements and Rocks the Bedroom

Yesterday was 71 degrees for a few minutes as we picked up several loads of big heavy goodies from the shipper. Ah, shirt sleeves….

Well, here we are in the rather empty (deserted!) Alexis Park. Actually, many hotels are empty here, these few days before the Deluge of CES attendees flocking in like banshees out of Circuit City.

The small Audio Note room is more or less setup and warming up…

The large room, well…. its mostly up and warming…

Setting up the rack, uncrating the platforms, tracking down a RCA to XLR adapter (guitar center) for the M1 which, until the M9 gets here, is our preamp without balanced outputs.

Here are our new AN/E SEC Signature loudspeakers in Madrone. yummy.

High Efficiency. Yummy.

The Balanced Kegons… in a different chassis from the traditional Kegons.

VERY nice looking on the inside…

Except one channel has a Baaaaaad tube. BAD tube. No worky.

With only one channel, we break in one speaker and amp for awhile, then the other… but we should have both channels going sometime. We hope. As soon as we find a GOOD tube.

Sounds pretty farking good with just one channel …. Hee Hee Hee. 🙂 Killer speaker control and delicacy of decay….

… and that is with one channel, the M1 instead of the M9 which is arriving tomorrow, and with speakers that are brand new. [Yeah, we can both easily hear ‘past’ problems that we know are caused by situational difficulties like lack of break in, room anomalies, etc – so it will be interesting to hear what other people think…. ]

So now, to track down a 10Y (VT-25) tube…..