Amir's CES 2012 Picture Thread

[amirm]

Shockingly, some of the worse audio I heard came from these Meridian speakers. They have a mid-range/tweeter on top and a bass driver firing down. Sounded like cheap PC plastic speakers. Tubby and muddy. Combined with the cold reception they gave to me when I asked them about it, they really missed the mark here on both technology and business:

The cone shape is all cosmetic. There is just a front firing, traditional shape speaker in it and the rest, is just for looks:

This one was playing music and while sounding bright (probably the lousy content they had picked), was far better than above:

 

[amirm]

Jeff Rowland electronics. Give these people an F for marketing. They had all this nice looking electronics, hooked up to Revel Salon 2 and would not play a darn thing with them! I walked in. Sat on the couch, taking pictures and they still ignored me and didn't play any music. Shame, shame, shame!

 

[amirm]

Krell:

Wonder what this does for tweeters:

 

[amirm]

Vienna Acoustics:

Maybe it is me but don't you create more problems with those sharp edges than you solve by twisting the top of the unit?

 

[amirm]

Nola:

 

[amirm]

Valve Amplification Company (VAC):

 

[amirm]

Peachtree had their new integrated DAC. It has a digital amp it seems since it was dead cold (heat wise). They had a good selection of modern music playing and it sounded good although the Martin Logans could stand being tuned more for that room.

 

[amirm]

Bob Carver's new amp:

I was hoping for Seattle made tubes, not Chinese.

 

[amirm]

DynAudio:

 

[amirm]

These are the new Anthem (1000 watt?) monoblocks driving Paradigm S8 reference speakers:

Darn, that is a poor image. Next year for sure I will bring the monster DSLR....

 

[amirm]

Convergent Audio Technology driving the MBL speakers. Is this the room everyone thought was the best?

And that is the last one! Man, I would never make it as a professional blogger! This is way too much work .

 

[amirm]

Reserving this one for anything I missed that I might add later .

 

[Husk]

CES 2012 Pics

Amir, Super job. Great photography. That is the best collection on show pictures I have seen.

 

[Nevillekapadia]

Amir, many thanks for all the efforts- thoroughly enjoyed the photo's.

Post#35 -You wondered what the speakers were -They are the Verity Lohengrin II.

Best,
Neville

 

[amirm]

Thanks for the kind words guys and Neville for the name of that speaker.

 

[DaveyF]

Amir, Thanks for the great pics.....

From my analog head....the TT on post 14 is the Benz-AMG. What did you think of its sound? The TT in post 34 is the OneDof ( one degree of Freedom)which is an entry level TT priced at a $150K.


BTW, on post 38, the speaker is the SF Amati Futura not the Fenice

 

[Steve Williams]

great stuff Amir. I am almost embarrassed now to post mine. Many I have are similar to yours BUT I have pix of the new XLF and the silk dome tweeter as well as photos of me and DW

 

[amirm]

Amir, Thanks for the great pics.....

From my analog head....the TT on post 14 is the Benz-AMG. What did you think of its sound? The TT in post 34 is the OneDof ( one degree of Freedom)which is an entry level TT priced at a $150K.

My pleasure. I mad the correction. Did you say $150K??? I think I would buy a BMW and a $50K turntable and still come out ahead . The sound was good.

BTW, on post 38, the speaker is the SF Amati Futura not the Fenice

Thanks. I corrected that too.

 

[amirm]

great stuff Amir. I am almost embarrassed now to post mine. Many I have are similar to yours BUT I have pix of the new XLF and the silk dome tweeter as well as photos of me and DW

Post them Steve. I suspect your observations are far more useful to members than mine.

 

[flez007]

Fantastic Amir, thanks a lot for transporting us there!

Too sad about what happened at the Rowland suite, I agree with you that an Audio equipment needs to be heard in a place such as the CES.

The Midwright pic is an Integrated amp, not a music server....

Loved the Levinson news, I was not aware of that new line.