Hi guys. No time to upload pictures. Have to run to today's sessions. But thought I share this one image of the best sound I heard yesterday which was from YG (both here and in Rowland room):
Could sit there for days listening to this system. Yes, it was playing LPs.
Some general comments:
1. Rooms seemed to be pretty damped. Many exhibitors were using side panels to absorb reflections. Add carpet to it and dropped ceiling in the case of Mezzanine floor, and you had the made up of fair dead rooms. I think this took away from performance of some of these systems for someone like me who likes to hear a more live room for music enjoyment.
2. Overall, the presentations were superior to CES. Larger rooms with much better configuration than the ones in Venetian hotel at CES.
3. This is the really sad part... Seems like audiophiles as a group are not fond of taking showers!!! I kid you not. You had to hold your breath in the elevator and common areas. What's up with this guys? We need to leave a better impression with local folks. The place smelled so much better around 8:00pm or so when I left.
4. I listened to a live Piano recital for few minutes and it sounded wonderful. Michael heard another earlier in the day. Did not expect that, nor sadly had the time in my schedule to do more of it.
5. I find Denver people very friendly. Was driving in remote areas in dirt road on top of mountain passes and locals going by would still take their hands of steering wheel to wave!
6. Had a flat in my rental car yesterday morning. Called Dollar Rental car and she asks me, "sir, would you like to buy a new tire from us or do you want us to charge you to send someone to replace it with the spare?" What the heck? I am accountable for flats now? "Oh sir, you waved that protection." SOB. Had to drive to one place to put air in it, and go to Discount Tire to get it patched. It was a nail and they fixed it for free.
8. Bummed that there is not much opportunity to have one's own music play. Brought my own flash drive but other than Phillip's booth (funny story on that later), I could not get anyone else to play it.
9. Ran into an old friend/colleague, Chris Walker who worked for Pioneer for years. He had left to join the German company (ELEC?) with Andrew Jones and once again pulled a miracle by creating very good sounding loudspeakers for what we will pay for dinner tonight!
10. As I noted elsewhere, I was very disappointed with the demo of Kii loudspeakers. If anyones to beat me up with "DSP and measurements don't translate to good sound," this is your opportunity. By every metric I use to listen to a loudspeaker, it did poorly. Don't know what was going on. And oh, this was another room which refused to play my sample tracks despite playing everything on their computer.
Anyway, don't want to be late again today. Don't say anything bad about me while I am away from the computer.
Could sit there for days listening to this system. Yes, it was playing LPs.
Some general comments:
1. Rooms seemed to be pretty damped. Many exhibitors were using side panels to absorb reflections. Add carpet to it and dropped ceiling in the case of Mezzanine floor, and you had the made up of fair dead rooms. I think this took away from performance of some of these systems for someone like me who likes to hear a more live room for music enjoyment.
2. Overall, the presentations were superior to CES. Larger rooms with much better configuration than the ones in Venetian hotel at CES.
3. This is the really sad part... Seems like audiophiles as a group are not fond of taking showers!!! I kid you not. You had to hold your breath in the elevator and common areas. What's up with this guys? We need to leave a better impression with local folks
. The place smelled so much better around 8:00pm or so when I left.4. I listened to a live Piano recital for few minutes and it sounded wonderful. Michael heard another earlier in the day. Did not expect that, nor sadly had the time in my schedule to do more of it.
5. I find Denver people very friendly. Was driving in remote areas in dirt road on top of mountain passes and locals going by would still take their hands of steering wheel to wave!
6. Had a flat in my rental car yesterday morning. Called Dollar Rental car and she asks me, "sir, would you like to buy a new tire from us or do you want us to charge you to send someone to replace it with the spare?" What the heck? I am accountable for flats now? "Oh sir, you waved that protection." SOB. Had to drive to one place to put air in it, and go to Discount Tire to get it patched. It was a nail and they fixed it for free.
8. Bummed that there is not much opportunity to have one's own music play. Brought my own flash drive but other than Phillip's booth (funny story on that later), I could not get anyone else to play it.
9. Ran into an old friend/colleague, Chris Walker who worked for Pioneer for years. He had left to join the German company (ELEC?) with Andrew Jones and once again pulled a miracle by creating very good sounding loudspeakers for what we will pay for dinner tonight!
10. As I noted elsewhere, I was very disappointed with the demo of Kii loudspeakers. If anyones to beat me up with "DSP and measurements don't translate to good sound," this is your opportunity.
By every metric I use to listen to a loudspeaker, it did poorly. Don't know what was going on. And oh, this was another room which refused to play my sample tracks despite playing everything on their computer.Anyway, don't want to be late again today. Don't say anything bad about me while I am away from the computer.
