Show Reports

January 29, 2012 by Michael

CES 2012 – Simaudio

The Simaiudio room featured their Moon electronics on Sonus Faber Amati loudspeakers

The Simuadio rooms traditionally feature this black cloth on piping setup at shows.

Sonus Faber ‘Amati’ speaker

Sonus Faber ‘Amati’ speaker from the side

Simaudio ‘Moon 650D DAC / CD Transport’ (i.e. CD player)

Simaudio ‘Moon 700i’ integrated amplifier. Nice gold finish, reminds me of the better-looking MBL gear.

Simaudio ‘Moon 380D DAC’ and ‘180 Mind Intelligent Network Device’

Simaudio ‘Moon 600i integrated amplifier’

Simaudio ‘Moon 750D DAC / CD Transport’ [CD player] with an open chassis

Simaudio ‘Moon’ amplifier with open chassis. A little blurry, and don’t know which amp this is, but I think we can tell quite a few things from this photo about the design of the Moon amps. They feature clean and simple designs and at most a medium-sized transformer [presumably under that metal box].

January 29, 2012 by Michael

CES 2012 – WASP, DREAM 360

Dream 360 makes interesting-looking speakers.

This was a weird room – the guy on the left there wouldn’t move his arm either time as I had to squeeze by to take close-up photos and then to leave. Kind of creepy.

They weren’t playing music loud enough to really hear what the speakers sounded like.

The Dream 360 Reference speakers

A Dream 360 Reference loudspeaker

A Dream 360 Reference speaker from below

Desktop Dream 360 speakers

A small Dream 360 desktop speaker

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January 28, 2012 by Michael

CES 2012 – Venture, Weiss

[Finished with floor 29 of the Venetian… now onward and upward, to floor 30!]

Venture brought their ‘Grand Ultimate’ speakers this year and put them on Venture amplification.

This was by far the best I’ve heard the Venture sound. Much more midi-dynamics and separation than their traditional laid back and kind of euphonic yet muddy sound.

I attributed it to the use of the Venture amps.

However, I talked to a Venture dealer about this and they thought it was the new design of these speakers that made them perform like this.

But then I looked at the website, and these have been around for a few years, so…. a mystery.

I didn’t stay long enough to evaluate more deeply the other aspects of the sound and ascertain the system’s true quality – I was just happy that Venture had apparently joined the ‘game’.

The Venture Grand Ultimate speakers and Venture amps