10 Jan

CES notes

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Las Vegas is crazy as usual with huge bright screens along the Vegas blvd showing fast clips and Cirque de Soleil ads. There are a total of three audio shows here – the Venetian has room devoted to speakers and amps, T.H.E. Show has vinyl records and more amps and CES has tons of consumer electronics gadgets.

The best talk so far was by Harry Pierson, the editor of Absolute Sound. He spoke among other things of demagnetizing the vinyl records. This actually makes sense, since the tiny metal particles embedded in the vinyl material can mess with the sensitive cartridge riding above… And with today’s low-noise oreamps the difference is actually audible… Wow!

Here is the picture of Harry and me taken after I showed him the DACport.

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