Its mostly a mental thing – and hardly anything to do with audio. I mean, if someone is crazy about audio = spends gazillion dollars and quintillion brain cycles on the stuff, they naturally have to be careful about the consideration of other possible hobbies.

Just because we are craxy does not mean we aren’t perfectly aware of how crazy obsessed passionate we are and cautious about getting any crazier by getting into the visual side of the entertainment event reproduction chain.

So, video is great and we are on the upgrade path, slow as it may seem to other real videoholics (we just got a Sony 26″ XBR LCD TV) – we are just NOT going to go nuts over the stuff.

There is only so much craziness to go around – craziness don’t grow on trees, ya know. [It has to be carefully cultivated and nurtured for years…:-]

Anyway, the mode here is to twiddle bits between autitions and get the show report infrastructure up and clicking:

CES 2006 DENVER

[Yes, we KNOW the Hifiing logo is too big. I’m just tired with mucking with it]

Not sure if we are just going to do the dailies (aka episodes – cute huh?) with buckets of pix, or a real report. I guess there has to be a ‘Did it Suck or Not’ kind of summary so who knows…

Only the Shadow Knows For Sure… or

Only the Echo Knows For Sure.

CEDIA is in only a few days (Sept. 14th).

Not sure what to expect. A lot of cables and brackets and LCD TVs I guess. Nordost will be there – their cables work inside walls and under carpeting very nicely – So at least one high-end audio company will be on the floor there.

Next door is T.H.E. Show – which is where Kharma loudspeakers will be exhibited along with presumably other high-end gear. There is even talk that we might end up exhibiting there [Hey, I just live here – it is not as if I know what is going on here half the time].

In any case, we got tickets awhile back and we will be trying to find a place to park along with the rest of the Denver Natives and have us a look see [parking in downtown Denver is like parking downtown in any big city – except there are no city-owned parking garages or nor hotel-owned parking garages – at least there wern’t last I checked.

There will be pictures taken – but please don’t expect a HE 2006 deluge – I am going thru a 12-step program all summer to try and calm down my camera-clicking trigger finger.

We’ll see…

It just might be too boring to take many photos anyway – Audio Federation does not do installation or trunk slamming…. and for good reason. I mean, yes, there is good money there – great in fact….But HT does not focus much on good sound – at least not much beyond the basic ‘impressive’ stage. Enjoyable? Emotional? Magical??

Hopefully, we’ll get around to setting up a Home Theater system here sometime soon – with all of those things. But, fair warning, it will likely have out-wall speakers and out-of-closet equipment racks and cables strewn across the floor, …. 🙂