CES 2015 Photos

Mike

Mike

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This year I wasn't able to attend CES, however, Jon Lewis is on assignment for Audioshark. Big thanks to Jon for taking the photos and offering impressions of each room.

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M Project on static display


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Q7 with Q Sub 18, Soulution 701s and 725, Baetis Music Server and Berkeley Ref DAC. Very smooth Q7 but the sub overwhelmed the room.


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Blah sound in every way. Nothing special.


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Beautiful looking and sounding speakers. Pretty good tune gear. No Vitus this time, don't know why.


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Static display. The all-black Master Inno on the fancy stand looked much more impressive.
 

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Nice Bryston amp and some very nice stand mounts for only $3K. Made some other speakers sound shabby in comparison.


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Berlin RC9 on static display when I was there. Beautiful speaker.


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So sexy.


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711, 725 and new 560 DAC with CMS Sotto Voce rack and Vovox cables driving Alexias. First time I heard the Alexia's sound good.


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Very good speaker for the money.
 

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Lumin. Magico S1. Ayre amp. Terrific sound. One of my favorite rooms, especially for the price.


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All Kondo, other than maybe the speakers. So sweet.


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A monstrosity of a speaker, with sound to match.


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Pretty nice looking and sound.


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So bad. In every way.


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Didn't live up to the hype.
 

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An insult to my ears.


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A revelation. Tremendous speaker for the size and money.


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Prince Speakers. Ugly but so sonically pleasing for $9,995.


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The turntable was the best part.
 

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Zanden Electronics driving crazy looking robot speakers


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D'Agostino, dCS, Kronos and YG Carmel 2. Like a stew gone bad. Too many ingredients in the pot.


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New 2100 gear, looked and sounded terrific. The speaker was too polite and in too small of a room.


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More from Boulder.
 

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The Pass XS150's made the TAD's sound VERY good.


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Blah.


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Still Blah.


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Again blah.


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TAD Electronics on Billy Bags to play the new Evo Monitor, which was very good. Side and bottom vented allowed them to play extremely loud with no distortion.
 

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Synergistic, McIntosh and S3's. Not ready for prime time.


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Prettiest table I saw, but they were playing digital when I arrived.


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So bad. Like trying to enunciate clearly with a sock stuffed in your mouth.


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VAC and dCS. Beautiful gear. Not memorable sound.


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Naim Statement/Grande. I think the electronics were better than the speaker, but it was hard to tell. Very mechanical and clinical.
 

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The Montsalvat wasn't ready, but this room was my favorite. Lamm ML2.2 and 3 beamed, LL1 sig preamp and phono with EMM stack. They played digital when I was there.

(side note: when I was speaking with Jon on the phone this morning, he was raving about this room and these Verity Lohengrin speakers.)


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In the Verity Lohengrin room, but not playing. Sad.


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Jon tells me this is my next car.
 

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mauidan said:
Who is Jon Lewis?
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A member of our forum. He's probably heard more gear in the past 5 years than anyone I know. He was raving about Soulution when no one had even heard of them.

He also has an appreciation for great tube gear too.
 
Keith - are you using the app or a computer? Try logging out and back in again.
 
I enjoy Jon's caustic style. :D

Having been to more shows than I care to count, I know it's almost a fluke when I run across a good sounding room. Good to see someone telling it like it is.

By the way...having the same issue as Keith. Posts #7, 10-12 not showing pics with the comments.
 
Mike said:
A member of our forum. He's probably heard more gear in the past 5 years than anyone I know. He was raving about Soulution when no one had even heard of them.

He also has an appreciation for great tube gear too.
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