CES 2013: Gato Audio
Gato Audio showed some of the most visually striking gear at CES this year — and yes, I mean that in a good way. Shown with the monster Aerial 20T loudspeakers (wow!), the $8,000 AMP-150 […]
Gato Audio showed some of the most visually striking gear at CES this year — and yes, I mean that in a good way. Shown with the monster Aerial 20T loudspeakers (wow!), the $8,000 AMP-150 […]
Last Fall, Ayre showed off their new AX-5 integrated amp in a room that, quite frankly, took my breath away. That gear showed up here, at CES, with a slight change — the new VX-5 […]
Magico released it’s newest loudspeaker at CES this year, the S1. This guy is remarkable for a couple of reasons: one, it’s the least expensive Magico on offer, and two, it’s part of the new […]
Shown with one of my favorite sub-$10k loudspeakers, the Aerial 7T, Balanced Audio Technology was showing off their newest reference-class bits. The REX II Preamplifier ($25,0000) …
I found Tri Mai of Triplanar lounging in the On A Higher Note room at CES, showing off his new Ultimate U12 tonearm. Triplanar has always been known for creating functional works of art, with […]
Disappointment. Despair. Abandonment and loss. Forlorn-i-tude. I imagine that these were the thoughts Dan Meinwald and Tim de Paravicini of E.A.R. when then realized that Tim’s newest toy, the Acute 4, would not be successfully making […]
I have to be honest here. I really wasn’t expecting much from the all-glass $115,000/pair The Point Mk II from Perfect8. But here paired with the $88,500 BAlabo BP-1 stereo amplifier, the sound was actually […]
It may seem like I’m a bit promiscuous, but … okay, maybe I really ought to stop right there and wriggle a bit for you. Got that image nicely burned into your imagination? Perfect. No, […]
Folks, just so you know, I don’t only write about expensive doodads. Okay, correction — all of these doodads are expensive, but that said, I don’t only write about the ones that cost more than […]
Let me get it out of the way, right off the bat — I loved the sound in this room, and it was an easy candidate for Best in Show. Ska-doosh. Bass was enveloping and […]
Audio Research, now a part of the Fine Sounds Group, was showing a couple of bits here at CES, alongside the monster Aida loudspeakers from Sonus Faber. Let me say, first, that this is the […]
I’m not really sure what to say about the Angel Sound room, or their … imposing … $160,000/pair flagship P8 loudspeakers. The kids in here were really nice, but … this room was not a […]
Bill Conrad and Lew Johnson of Conrad-Johnson were on hand to chat about their classic designs. I say “classic designs” because C-J has, at least for me, pretty much defined the high-end of audio for […]
Carl & Marilyn Marchisotto of Nola Audio put on quite a show at CES. The huge guest room at the Venetian was almost not big enough to contain their awesomeness — they’d have been even […]
Like many audiophiles, I wish that my flea-powered amplifier wasn’t quite so … anemic … when it came to modern loudspeakers. I mean, if it wasn’t for all the crazy-low impedance swings or sub-90dB sensitivity […]
AVM-TEC is an audio start-up, fronted by Alexander Vitus (yes, that Vitus), with a couple of prototype products on display. The first, the Alluxity Pre ONE preamplifier (TBD, but ~$8,000), sports a very fancy LCD […]
We got the scoop back at RMAF about the new version of the Da Vinci DAC from Light Harmonic, now called the “Dual DAC”, so it was pretty cool to see it here at CES […]
Vitus Audio launched a new entry into their entry-level “Reference Line” at CES this year, the RD-100. The RD-100 looks like a DAC/pre combo, but that’d be oversimplifying a bit. Think of it, rather, as […]
The Audio Show Blasphemy. That’s what it is, plain and simple — blasphemy. I mean, how is it possible that “The Denver Show” isn’t the greatest audio show on Earth? The very idea boggles the […]
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