Playback Designs at C.E.S./ T.H.E. Show 2013 - Las Vegas Room 4040

[jtinn]

1/2013 - This new year, we will be exhibiting again in Las Vegas at T.H.E. Show (The Flamingo Hotel) in Room 4040, January 8 thru 11 with our Playback Designs’ MPS-3 CD Player, Evolution Acoustics' MMMicroOne loudspeakers, darTZeel's NHB-108 amplifier and NHB-18 NS preamplifier, Wave Kinetics' magnificent NVS Turntable and isolation systems, the Durand Tonearm Telos, Ortofon’s MC-Anna Cartridge, Leeds Studios' beautiful equipment rack, the top of the line Audience line conditioners and some of the best music you will ever hear.

We will be recording vinyl to digital at double DSD rates and playing them back immediately for comparisons. Come by for a listen.

 

[redscouser]

Jonathan,

Saw pictures of your room on a Japaneses site, any further information on the new Integrated Amp / Dac .

Rg
Mark

 

[Kal Rubinson]

1/2013 - This new year, we will be exhibiting again in Las Vegas at T.H.E. Show (The Flamingo Hotel) in Room 4040, January 8 thru 11 with our Playback Designs’ MPS-3 CD Player, Evolution Acoustics' MMMicroOne loudspeakers, darTZeel's NHB-108 amplifier and NHB-18 NS preamplifier, Wave Kinetics' magnificent NVS Turntable and isolation systems, the Durand Tonearm Telos, Ortofon’s MC-Anna Cartridge, Leeds Studios' beautiful equipment rack, the top of the line Audience line conditioners and some of the best music you will ever hear.

We will be recording vinyl to digital at double DSD rates and playing them back immediately for comparisons. Come by for a listen.

Nice sound. I was again impressed with the EA speakers.

 

[Peter Breuninger]

Nice sound in JTinns room, very open and layered. Small speaker-big sound. Got the video.

 

[Bruce B]

We will be recording vinyl to digital at double DSD rates and playing them back immediately for comparisons. Come by for a listen.

How did the recording go? What did you use and how did you connect?

 

[NorthStar]

Nice sound in JTinns room, very open and layered. Small speaker-big sound. Got the video.

---- Perfect thread to post it! :b

 

[jtinn]

Jonathan,

Saw pictures of your room on a Japaneses site, any further information on the new Integrated Amp / Dac .

Rg
Mark

Hi Mark,

The new Integrated Playback System 3 (IPS-3) will start shipping sometime in the summer. It is really a fun product that I really did not expect would be ready in time to show at CES /T.H.E. Show. Andreas and Bert worked incredibly hard to have it ready and the day before I left for Vegas, I got the call that it was ready. Of course all the PR and pre-announcements could not be done because of the uncertainty of having it there. Sorry for there being no pre-warning.

The IPS-3 has a 3 Series DAC, Preamplifier and Stereo Amplifier built into one box. The preamplifier section has 7 inputs:

USB | AES/EBU | S/PDIF | XLR | 2 RCAs | Playlink (Playback Designs' proprietary link)

The amplifier outputs 130 wpc into 8 ohms and doubes into 4 ohms. It drove the hell out of the 87 db efficient Evolution Acoustics MMMicroOnes.

In the upcoming months we will assemble more information which I will be happy to share here.

 

[jtinn]

Nice sound. I was again impressed with the EA speakers.

Sorry I missed you Kal. It would have been nice to talk.

Thanks for stopping by.

 

[jtinn]

Nice sound in JTinns room, very open and layered. Small speaker-big sound. Got the video.

Peter, nice to see you! You really caught me off guard with the video recorder. How much would it cost to lose the video

 

[jtinn]

How did the recording go? What did you use and how did you connect?

Hey Gimp, I'll call you in a few.

 

[wizard]

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[wizard]

I think the price will be $13000.

Maybe there will be a bigger model; IPS-5 in the future?

 

[Mike Lavigne]

I think the price will be $13000.

Maybe there will be a bigger model; IPS-5 in the future?

i think not. the idea is a one box DAC/PRE/AMP attractively packaged with a small footprint with a 10,000 euro target with enough power for real world speakers.

a pair of EA Micro One's, the IPS-3, speaker cables and one power cable, and a music server......for under $20k or 15,000 euros.....a complete high performance system with modest investment and minimal life-style intrusion.

i would expect that package to humble many much more expensive alternatives.

this could be a game-changer.

 

[Bruce B]

I'm still waiting on my game changing A-D converter!

 

[JackD201]

i think not. the idea is a one box DAC/PRE/AMP attractively packaged with a small footprint with a 10,000 euro target with enough power for real world speakers.

a pair of EA Micro One's, the IPS-3, speaker cables and one power cable, and a music server......for under $20k or 15,000 euros.....a complete high performance system with modest investment and minimal life-style intrusion.

i would expect that package to humble many much more expensive alternatives.

this could be a game-changer.

$13,000 is about 10,000 euro give or take a few Benjies.

 

[microstrip]

$13,000 is about 10,000 euro give or take a few Benjies.

Jack,
Unhappily it is not true in audio. After you add shipping and the very high european taxes $13000 becomes typically euro 13000 - 14500 . :-(

 

[JackD201]

Oh yes. You guys have very high VAT over there, over 20% for most EU countries. US Sales Tax is a lot less and some States have none.