by Michael

CES 2015 Acapella Audio Arts

At CES 2015 Acapella Audio Arts will introduce their new Acapella Cellini speakers.

We will be exhibiting with Acapella this year in room 30-225, in the Venetian tower, with Neli spending most of her time here.

The Cellini speakers are similar in size and pricing to their Violon speakers but feature Acapella’s new hyperspherical-shaped horn.

Here’s a lovely description, and specifications, fom the factory:

Acapella first used a hyper spherical midrange horn in the Poseydon speakers. This horn configuration offers an extraordinarily open and transparent sound in a more compact home loud speaker system,

Acapella Cellini

This highly musical midrange is traditional accompanied by the Acapella Ion Tweeter TW 1
The bass foundation is provided in a sleek housing that also serves as the support for the Ion Tweeter
and the spherical horn. The complete system recreates the sound of any type of music with absolute
authenticity and a certain mysterious magic.

Technical: Overall Frequency Response: 28 Hz – 40 kHz, Efficiency: ~ 91 dB / 1 W / 1 m
Impedance 8 Ohm, Load capacity: 100 W – 1000 W / 10 ms
Recommended power output of the amplifier: from 15 W
Dimensions (HxWxD) without horn: 1490 x 330 x 475 mm (4,89 x 1,08 x 1,56 feet)
Dimensions (HxWxD) with horn: 1705 x 620 x 585 mm (5,59 x 2,03 x 1,91 feet)
Weight: ~ 105 kg (230 lb), High Version 120 kg (265 lb)

The room will feature:

* Acapella Cellini High loudspeakers, € 46,600, currently $58,250 with the Euro at 1.25.

* Acapella LaMusika integrated amplifier, $106,388.

* Acapella cables, specifics tbd.

* The EMM Labs XDS1 player ($25000) or… the Audio Note CDT-5 transport with one of their Level 5 DACs, specifics tbd

* HRS SXR equipment rack and M3X platforms.

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CES 2015 is just a few weeks away…

Be there or… read the several dozen show reports that no doubt will appear [including ours :-)]

 

 

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 by Michael

CES Asia 2015 is one week after Munich High End

CES Asia is CES trying to branch out from its currently one-a-year shindig in Las Vegas each January.

Sure, why not?

But CES Asia 2015 is going to be in Shanghai on Monday, May 25 – Wednesday, May 27, 2015

But the Munich show, Munich High End, is on May 14 – May 17, 2015

Choose one option below:

a) CES is trying to take thunder [exhibitors] away from Munich, because they see Munich as a threat?

b) CES does not care about high performance audio and so do not care if exhibitors can make it to their show or not?

c) CES did not know there was a Munich show at almost the same time as their show

d) CES figures China is so important to business these days, it does not matter what other shows exist at all, they will all go to CES Asia 2015

e) is there an e) ?

I am going to cheat and say b), c) and d). But a) is funny, so I had to add it in [I mean, it would be great if a) were true, but… ]

In any case, I imagine this may cause some angst for some manufacturers. Which show… which show…

I would say Munich – it is our hobby’s premier show on the world stage – certainly until CES shows some significant support for high-end audio, high performance audio part of their new trade show / conference.

Or I could say CES Asia, because lets say you are the only high-end audio booth; depending on how many people attend the show, this could be an awesome amount of exposure in what appears to be a market hungry for high-end audio gear.

Decisions decisions…

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 by Michael

CES 2015 registration – Free through August 31

Which is in three (3) days, BTW, in case you have a hard time keeping track [like me] and keep forgetting to register [like me] and have a hard time getting worried about things FOUR MONTHS in advance.

Contrary to the previous post [ 🙂 ], there is still a lot to see at CES – and one might as well take advantage of the free registration, even if one might not actually make it to the conference in … 4 months time.

http://www.cesweb.org/

 

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