by Michael

CES 2008 coming right up…

This year I registered as ‘Press’. Last year a security guard threatened to confiscate my camera because I wasn’t press. We’ll see if they think I qualify as a member of the ill reputed ‘press corp’.

A number of industry people we usually see at shows have decided to skip this year’s CES. Kind of sucks…

This year we will have two Audio Note rooms. We should know next week exactly what we are taking… but it is going to be great. A large, or rather expensive, room with lots of goodies and the same small room we had at RMAF, but with 4.1x CD player this year.

We will have a small HRS SXR rack and, well, we’ll see… 🙂

We’ll be at the Alexis Park. There are going to be lots of exhibitors… hopefully lots of people too. Not that exhibitors aren’t people, per se… 😉

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 by Michael

CES 2008 etc

At this time of year we get preoccupied with CES, what to take, how to get it there, what to ship and what to put in the car, will there be SNOW between us and Vegas, and how MUCH….

The Odin is still settling in on Kharma system. After such an intense burn-in process, it helps to just leave them in one place for a week or two.

We put the Emm Labs CDSA on the system with the ODIN, so we have CDSA -> Audio Note Ongaku. A little more detail, a little less warmth.

Detail fans are just going to go ga-ga over the Odin, especially the interconnect. There is so much more on the CD and LP than I ever had imagined – and I thought we had pretty high resolution here before …

And, as you can quite imagine, looking at Nordost’s line of cables as it extends up through Valhalla – the ODIN has w-o-n-d-e-r-f-u-l tone.

The Jorma Prime might have more emotion (though we haven’t done the shootout yet) but the musicality and tone on the Odin is way, Waaaay out there – very close to the real thing – recorded electric guitars really invoke the sound of my old electric guitar and amp [over and over again, it is not like it sounded like this once, on one CD, but many times, many CDs, springing out at me when I was just listening casually], significantly unlike anything I have heard.

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 by Michael

CES 2008

Looks like CES will be here and this year it won’t catch us by surprise [yeah, right.]

Not too much in the way of floor plans up on the ces website that I could find. Then again, it is quite a maze over there. [Its a lot like Microsoft’s website. Ever try to find anything over there? With the emphasis on “try”? We should talk, huh? :-)]

The general floor plan at the Venetian / Sands Expo appears to remain the same:

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The T.H.E. Show floor plan has expanded into the Alexis Park:

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Our show report is getting updated a little.

Audio Federation CES 2008 High-end Audio Show Report

Mostly going to white backgrounds instead of black, grouping photos together a little more naturally. And a few more things to help make navigation through a few thousand photos a little easier.

And, looking at that picture reminds me, it is unclear whether we are going to cover the Main Conference this year. Not sure how many of our readers are interested, beyond satisfying a “Oh wow, that is what they are doing over there” kind of curiosity.

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