Full Report
 CES HIGH-END AUDIO

VENETIAN TOWER PART 2
January 8th-11th, 2007

 

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The UniwaveTek and Golden Sound room. This room sounded better than it had any right to, with good dynamic separation and an almost sweet quality to  it.

 

 

 

 
No, I did not get a demonstration of the system with and without the jar of what look like rocks.

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 
It is too easy to make fun of the rocketship-like gadgets from Mars, so I'll refrain. Oops...

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 
The Zetex Semiconductors and PLC room.

 

 

 

 
The Aurum Acoustics and Cardas Audio cable room. We did a photo montage of this system in the Montreal 2006 show report. Still sounding nice here, somewhat sweet and sophisticated.

 

 

 

 
The Jaton Corporation room.

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 
The ONIX Audio room.

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 
The Ecosse / Audiostone / Audiopax room. Ecosse makes cables and their name comes from the French name for Scotland, where Ecosse is from - as told to me by one of their distributors [who I won't embarrass by mentioning their name. In fact, I do not mention lots of people for fear of embarrassing them by tarnishing with being associated with the likes of our rogue reports :-) ]

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 
Oh! More pointy feet!

 

 

 

 
The Ypsilon Electronics room. The Ypsilon amps are big. Truly, the picture does not give them credit for their biggness.

 

 

 

 
For their massive size, their power output is only, as I overheard it, 120 watts. Presumably each of those watts is well cared for in this massive chassis.

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 
Ypsilon CD player

 

 

 

 
Presumably a Ypsilon 2-box preamplifier. Or DAC and pre.

 

 

 

 
Aha! See those tubes? Took me forever to get the right shot to get those tubes. This beasty is tall enough that it is hard to lean over to get the overhead shot.

Hey, anything that looks like this with a tube output stage [again, I presume] can't be all bad. However, the sound did not call attention to itself, which I was expecting it to do in the areas of speaker control and solidity. I have a feeling this might be one of those things that one has to listen to for awhile to ascertain the more subtle qualities of the sound. And perhaps with a different, more familiar, front end.

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 
The Kaleidascape room. Here they are demoing the time it takes for all the DVDs to rearrange themselves by flying all around so that all the movies related to the selected movie are visually close by to it on the screen. At least this time they didn't have an annoying subwoofer going during the demo.

 

 

 

 
The Oracle Audio Technologies room.

 

 

 

 
The Oracle Audio Technologies room. Couldn't decide which picture to use, so....

 

 

 

 
The Triode Corporation Ltd. Japan and Micropure speaker room. This room sounded decent, though it is hard, even for us, to listen to baby speakers like this and ignore the temptation to keep thinking that there is a lot of bass for such a small speaker.

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

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