by Michael

CES 2011 flyby #1

Just a few photos to give a taste…


YG Acoustics speakers driven by Tenor amps. Bass issues in room did not hide the fact that te mid and uppers were very nice.


Marten’s new Coltrane 2 speakers and amplifiers. Bass issues in room did not hide the fact that there was an ease and authority to these speakers that the Coltrane 1’s did not have. Lots to do with the 1″ tweeter as much or more than the increased size of the cabinet and woofers


Soundlab’s new inwall speakers. Demo of the inwall speakers is tonight or tomorrow night (sorry, I am too old to remember nothing)


Kimber / IsoMike / EmmLabs / Sony room. Best by far I’ve heard these Sony’s sound.


Dynamic Contrast was exhibiting some innovative vibration-controlling equipment racks. The test I conducted was inconclusive – need a better test track [mostly, I just feel how much the chassis of the equipment is vibrating – and listen too, of course]

in CES 2011 / High-end Audio HiFi and Stereo / Marten Design / Show Reports / Soundlab 0 comments
 by Michael

View from the Flamingo room window

… and all the exhibit rooms on this side of the 4rth floor hallway.

CES 2011 skyline

On the left is Ballys, on the far right is Bellagios, In the foreground on the right Hurrahs, and in the center back there is the Venetian [actually, this post in wrong in that these windows are facing South, not North, and that building just LOOKS like the Venetian (I forget which hotel it actually is)]. Just ignore the red brick building. Just apartments I think.

Otherwise, yeah, the view on this side of the hotel sucks. The other side of the hall, where we were last year, had views of the Flamingo gardens… palm trees, green stuff, yummy stuff that we haven’t seen for a few months in the snowy rocky mountains.

Twilight Zone moment: Last night we got a complaint about playing music in our room at around 65db. Haydn’s Nelson Mass. Sometime between 9pm and 10pm. (!)

Let’s just say shows, and Las Vegas(!), ain’t what they used to be.

in CES 2011 / High-end Audio HiFi and Stereo / Show Reports 0 comments
 by Michael

Room setup in Las Vegas, CES 2011

Blue sky most of the way here yesterday. Nice.

Just a test photo…. of the Audio Note room during setup. Not sure it will look anything like this by the time the show opens… but I need to put the laptop thru its paces to make sure it all works for the show report.

Audio Note CES 2011 Room Setup

Mostly having issues with the Flamingo internet connections going up and down and up and down all of the time.

in Audio Note / CES 2011 / High-end Audio HiFi and Stereo / Show Reports 0 comments