Yes, we KNOW the CES high-end audio show is not at the Alexis Park this year 🙂

But we are:

I think this is the old Nagra / Wilson Audio room, but I would have to look at last year’s program guide to be sure 🙂

It took us an extra hour and a half to get here, 12.5 hours, because of blowing snow on I70 beforfe the Eisenhour tunnel (people just gawking at it, slowing us down to 10-15 mph for almost an hour?) and severe blowing snow in the middle of Utah.

Neli did most of the driving [its her car], and she either putts along if there is the *possibility* of ice on the road, or goes so fast one would be hard pressed to even see the speed limits signs. But I exaggerate. ;-} But I of little sleep [didn’t get out of Boulder until 1pm due to the previous day being spent on snow removal efforts by us human snow blowers] can be excused my marriage endangering comments on the blog… right? I guess we’ll find out soon enough….

OK, now to try and unload [as in walking back and forth 100 times – realistically more like 20, but it FEELS like 100 – carrying potentially heavy, always expensive and often awkardly-sized gear from the car to the room and back] this chock full A6 Allroad (aka wagon) into the two Audio Note rooms next door at the St. Tropez, where the THE SHOW show is being held.

It is not so much that it is snowing a lot here compared to, well, some of the places where you all live, but that we are unprepared for this.

If it snowed like this all the time then we would have snow blowers and a plow person and more snow shovels (we are down to one, two broke today).

We actually had a plow guy, for several years, but he is a whiner, and that was when it only snowed about 3 to 5 times a Winter anything more than 3 or 4 inches, usually maxing out at 12 inches or so.

Anyway, weather either goes back to normal or we get a snow blower and a real plow guy. Enough is enough, and that was today.

We are packing the car with gear for THE SHOW for the Audio Note room – and to get the gear, get it in to the car, and get the car out of Boulder is taking some doing. But we are good to go, assuming the weather stays dry for another 12 hours or so…

By the way, I, through the blog or show reports, call this show ‘CES’, even though high-end audio will be mostly at T.H.E. Show this year. That is because CES is what it is traditionally called, CES attracts 120,000+ people, and high-end audio, whether we are talking about the section that is part of CES itself, or not, only attacts a very small percentage of those people. It is like just another small ‘conference hall’ in the scheme of things considering the overall gigantic impact of a show this large.

We went to CES several times without seeing the real conference at all. We stil called it ‘going to CES’. Heck, many people who go to the main conference hall don’t see CES either, they only see 10% or so if they only have a limited time and/or interests.

So, it is not meant to be dissrespectful or to display my ignorance when I say ‘CES’ as an abbreviation for ‘high-end audio including T.H.E. Show at the St. Tropez, High Performance Audio at the Venetian, and the main conference halls ‘ .

When I display my dissrespect and ignorance, I do it in other, hopefully more sophisticated ways… 🙂