And…….. were off!

We’re leaving for CES in a few hours…

When thinking about how best to cover this particular show, and not *appear* to be so mean about it [Who knew people really do like adverbs in their reviews. So now we know. And I was never mean – just factual – but that means so very little to people who Do Not Want To Hear It (and the rest who use their minds to hear what they think they should be hearing based on their limited, spotty, sparse, farcical and unbalanced knowledge of the technology being used. And I’m ignoring those to whom things sound best when $$$ advertising budgets and fine scotch malt whiskey are in play. Yes, let’s ignore them as much as possible.) OK. Got it out of my system. Ahhhh…. feel better now. Thanks.],

so, uh, I think about requesting if exhibitors could…

… give me a very short quote to put up on their room photos. You know like “our quadruple bypass triode architecture allows us to achieve hallucinogenic effects in 90% of our listeners in under 2.2 seconds” [who cares about the price, I want one of *these* :-)]

… put their room number on their literature so I can match them up later after visiting 200 rooms [with a lot of walking in between – this is really a marathon but in slooooow-mo] in 4 days

… let me know what they want featured most of all

Because each room gets it own ‘article’ in the show report. That is, between 1 and, say 20 pages of full-impact-page photos. With large text that will highlight the main features of the system – and small text that describes the experience and overall system flavor.

And we have [multiple] technologies that will now both make the text readable but not obscure the photos in any meaningful way.

Anybody else have any ideas?

How abut you Exhibitors?

And you Audiophiles?

Lurkers? Naw, you just like to lurk. That’s fine but these other folks….

High-grade Home Audio Porn addicts? I know you are out there, and I, of course, have been public with my addiction for lo these many years….

Enjoy!
-Mike

CES and T.H.E. Show 2009 Press Releases and Daily Photos

As some of you have seen, we have put out one of two special issues we are doing for CES 2009 and T.H.E. Show.

The first one, CES 2009 Preview and Dailies is already up and we have more than a dozen press releases up so far [not bad for a 2-week old publication – and we’ll do a lot better once all the bugs are obliterated out of the software… where is my bazooka?].

We will publish photos each day, if things go as planned, as large as we can make them.

Sponsors, Advertisements and Press Releases and Juicy Photos are welcome.

A few hints for using the magazine… resize the window to the size you want the page to be [sounds obvious, but some people are so used to scrolling around in little itty bitty windows :-)] .

Click on the ‘Page x’ of ‘Page x of 28’ in the top bar and you get a handy-dandy page navigator that helps you figure out where in the heck you are and where in the heck you want to be…

OK, time to start packing? Maybe so…