David Price reports direct from the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show 2012...




David Price reports direct from the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show 2012…




ARCAM





A range of exquisitely finished £250 mini-separates, offering DAC and headphone amp

functionality, made its debut.



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FURUTECH





Alongside a vast array of cables and connectors, this little carbon fibre clad headphone amplifier

from Alpha Design Labs was shown.



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PEACHTREE AUDIO





This relatively new name debuted its Grand Integrated, a swiftly finished high end amplifier

selling for around $3,500.



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MERIDIAN





The company's brand new flagship 818 'Reference Audio Core' source component was launched,

costing £7,500.



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QAT





The Beijing-based company demonstrated its new 850, a new integrated

amplifier to match its popular MS5 music server.



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DAVONE





This quirky Danish loudspeaker company had its whole range on dem, including the unusually styled

Mojo. Watch out for a review soon!



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BLADELIUS





The Embla is a beautifully built, striking looking £3,000 network music player with internal hard disk

storage option.



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DAVINCI





With its stealth fighter looks, the new 384K USB DAC was one of the most visually arresting digital

products at CES, with sonics to match!



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CAMBRIDGE AUDIO





This room had a range of new goodies, but the Magic Stream 6 (top) was surely the most

interesting –*a digital streaming big brother to the NP30.



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RESOLUTION AUDIO





The new £5,000 Cantata Music Center offers CD and streamed music playback, along with

superlative industrial design.



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MONITOR AUDIO





The popular British speaker brand was showing

its new Gold series, including this beautiful little

GX100 standmount loudspeaker.



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VINCENT





The German audio brand's fine looking new K-35 tube integrated costs under €2,500; sadly no

direct UK distribution just yet…



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NAD





The company's new $2,000 M51 digital DAC preamp and $3,000 M3 power amp make an impressive

pair together.



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ASTIN TREW





The young British brand was showing its new flagship Concorde range, including this Concord

Integrated amplifier.



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Be sure to check out the next issue of Hi-Fi Choice that will feature an in depth report on the must see products of 2012.



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