WBT makes lots of connectors for the high-end audio industry.

OK, I didn’t take any closeup photos here.

It takes me awhile to get up the gumption to kind of just push past clusters of talking people and get up close and personal with the equipment.

And gumption to stand in front of the equipment, blocking the listener’s view [I try to stand in the center, mucking up soundstaging but not blocking a speaker, at least (Although in the big Lamm room I got distracted – having fun taking a photo of the ONEDOF turntable manufacturer – until Neli, who was also there, shooed me out of the way. Oops. Sorry guys). ].

And I know my camera [Canon 5D Mark One] is one of the noisiest on the planet. Not so good for an audio show, huh?

But I will do better soon. Next room in fact…

This is the hallway that leads from where we were to the casino and the Venetian Towers where all the other rooms are.

It was extraordinarily crowded down here this year, although I do not know if it was anomalous or crowded like this all the time [unlike previous years, where we would visit rooms down here just about everyday – as well as go down here for the long walk back to the Alexis Park (in the olden days when that was where the THE Show was) – I never did make it back down here].

Well, they were standing around chatting and not playing music – so don’t know how it sounded here. There are very few rooms where I feel comfortable [and feel it is worth it ] interrupting people and asking them to put some music on.

Looks like Ocean Way brought some smaller monitors along with them this year.

This room always pairs lots of big honking amps with big honking speakers.

As you will see, there were lots of Oppo CD players here this year.

Ocean Way does a lot of work for Hollywood.

A better closeup of the front-end.