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Previously, on the Audio Federation Show Report, we had just
finished Monday. It is now Tuesday around noon, having stopped for
a few hours at the LVCC to check out the home theater and video
exhibits. A quarter of the show is now over. Whoo Hoo! I am so
psyched... not then, then it was all good, but now, with this show
report. You all know, don't you, that we will all be old men and
women by the time we get to the end of this thing. OK, just so you
know. The busses let us off here, or worse, in the garage to the
right a little bit off the photo. It is a noisy, smelly, crowded
confused mess - but they do have crossing guards to help people
fight their way between the ever angrier stream of cars. In
general, Las Vegas manages the crowd flow during conventions very
well - it is just that there are a lot of people here, in addition
to the usual massive numbers of tourists here in January trying to
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You know, there is another conference that is here, and I can't
help but wonder what it takes to get a press pass into the Adult
Entertainment Expo. Personally, I think 99.9% of the adult video
industry is of very poor quality and sucks pretty bad - but the
people seem to be fascinating [that's my word and I'm sticking
with it] as we all watch them walk by us going the other way as we
head to this or that high-end audio exhibit. |
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Not Sure
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Not Sure
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At this point I gave up trying to characterize many rooms that
were uninteresting - to me anyway. Stopping to try and figure out
just WHAT style they were TRYING to sound like, if ANY, and
enumerating the large list of problems with the sound - nobody
should have that job. Not that all of the 'Not Sure' rooms
sucked. But they either did not have music on, or they did not
exceed my rather low expectations of what a system of their
approximate price should sound like at a show.
In general, there are a large number of systems that do not
sound very good and the fact that there are so many means a lot of
unhappy people. Audiophiles, they can cruise the forums and trade
mags to at least cull the herd a little bit, albeit much of the
advice there is, how shall we put it nicely,... suspect.
But the ordinary Mary and the ordinary Joe, who do not want to
spend their weekends and evenings doing research, woe to them who
enters here. |
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STYLE |
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Impressive
Sweet Enjoyable
Emotional
Sophisticated
Natural Workhorse Real/Truth
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Dynamics
Natural |
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| This system powered by the Lamm ML1.1 while I was
there, was too laid back for my taste, and apparently for others
too [many people I talked to later, when I asked them 'Have you
heard the Lamm room?' thought I meant this room instead of the
room up on floor 35 with the ML3 amplifiers. And so I got to hear
what they thought about this room before I told them... "Nooooo, I
mean the OTHER Lamm room :-)"] |
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Gershman Black Swan loudspeaker |
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