Show Reports

February 5, 2012 by Michael

CES 2012 – Day 3

Ugh. Finally. Day 3 is a full day. Day 4, the last day, was a lot more mellow, so we are close to being 2/3 done with this report, even though we are only 1/2 done, timewise.

The THE Show music vendor area in down on the 1st floor, where we will spend the morning. This is where most of the big systems were this year.

THE Show serves lunch down here. Have never partaken myself, so all I know ism that it beings a lot of people downstairs which the exhibitors down there appreciate – even though there was always a steady stream of people coming through all the rooms down here – the traffic being comparable to typical rooms at the Venetian [though sometimes at the Venetian you will get a mad rush where everyone wants to be in the same room at the same time]

February 5, 2012 by Michael

THE Show 2012 (at CES) – Kudos Audio, Perreaux, Stein Music

Stein Music had their Harmonizers assisting the system in this room, a set of 6, I think, black boxes with little blue lights in them that affected the sound in the room.

After a demonstration with the Harmonizers on, then off, then on again, I felt that they made the system less ‘open sounding’ and adding a little dampening down to the dynamics. This is a similar effect to many power conditioners out there and many people seem to like this considering the overwhelming success of these kinds of devices. It makes the music more accessible, easier for the brain to parse, to grok, I sometimes think, perhaps because it is delivered in a more familiar package.

The speaker with a Blue Magic Diamond tweak on top