by Michael

CEs 2014: day 2

Things we found interesting in some way … still have to get to the Lamm room and the rest of THE show. still looking for the Zellaton photos…


Another photo of the Atlas speaker from Acapella. 30-


Nola Concert Grand Reference Gold speakers , Audio Research… 30-101


Clearaudio no. 10 statement TT1i turntable


Absolare and Magico room 30-210


Kondo and B&W(!?) speakers 30-319


Zanden and Magico speakers 30-211


Horning and TW Acoustic and Tron. Best I’ve heard this room sound 30-323


new Magico s3 speakers on Vitus. seems like an direct upgrade from the wonderful s1, but need to listen more. 35-


Big Magico $600K horn speaker on static display 35-


Totem – love the new room styles especially compared to the old native aborigine style


Constellation was straight ahead solid-state that gets more right than the traditional solid-state mainstays of the ye olde corner high-end audio dealership


siltech had some nice looking and innovative gear

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 by Michael

CEs 2014: Day 1

[Our host for audiofederation.com’s website, and 100s of thousands of other websites like ours, was blocking all traffic between all these sites (including ours) and the Flamingo hotel here at CEs /The show (presumably some spammers did their evil deeds from a room here at one time) and this took a few days to straighten out. Here, on day 3(!) are a few photos from day one. Ugh]


Increcable amp at THE show


The 3D printered tonearm from VPI


The Acapella Atlas speakers in blue


EMMLabs MTRX amp with gold faceplate


The Acoustic Zen room with some of Triode Corp’s new Junone line of reference gear

The first day was a day for visiting. The 2nd day is when we went ballistic and took a few more photos.

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 by Michael

CES 2014 – Coming soon to a planet near you

A little over two weeks away.

EMMLABS

EmmLabs will be showing with their new MTRX amplifier [an older version of which was very popular at RMAF], with Kimber / ISOMike / Sony as usual but not on the sparsely populated floor 35 but down on Venetian floor 30 (rooms 30-308 and 30-310), with most everybody else.

LAMM

Haven’t heard what [presumably Wilson] speakers Lamm will be showing with in their big room.

OOPS. Wrong. The large room:

Verity Lohengrin II S speakers
Lamm ML3 Signature amps
Lamm LL1 Signatture preamp
Lamm LP1 Signature Phono
NeoDio NR32D “Origine” CD player
TechDAS Airforce 1 turntable, TDC-)1 MC cartridge
Grapham Elite and Phantom tonearms
Kanso Audio Kata 1W4S rack
Kubala-Sosna Elation cables

The Small room:

Wilson Alexia speakers
Lamm M1.2 Reference amps
Lamm L2 Reference preamp
Lamm LP2.1 deluxe phono preamp
Tech DAS AirForce 2 turntable
Graham Elite tonearm
TechDAS D-7 Supreme DAC
CEC model TL-1 transport (! :-))
Kanso Audio Hamoni rack
Kubala-Sosna Emotion cables

AUDIO NOTE

… stopped doing CES / THE Show a few years ago.

HRS

HRS will have their high performance audio stands in 12 active systems at CES. They also have their static display and meeting room which is 29-203 in Venetian.

Nagra – Mirage Hotel
dCS – Mirage Hotel
Ayre Acoustics – Venetian 34-310
Audio Research – Venetian 35-305
Wadia / McIntosh – Venetian 35-305
Vandersteen Audio – Venetian 29-201
Aesthetix – Venetian 30-136
Graham Engineering – 35-110
Constellation Audio – 30-326
Bel Canto / Joseph Audio / Cardas – Venetian 29-236
BSG – Venetian 29-220
Vienna Acoustics – Venetian 30-129

HRS Meeting Room and Static Display – 29-203

.. and some other rooms at the show:

PERFECT8

at T.H.E. Show, in the Flamingo Red Rock VIII room

Perfect8 THE FORCE MKII [glass] speakers ($325K)
Perfect8 THE RACK
Walker Proscenium Black Diamond V turntable ($105K – a bit more than when we carried these!)
VAC electronics
Stealth and Perfect8 cables

Hope it is warm this year… love it when it is in the 70s 🙂

We talk about doing different kinds of coverage for these shows – but we’ll see what actually happens [each year it seems to be often quite different from what we planned ;-/]

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