Massive Consumer Electronics Show 2006 Coverage

[RGA]

was done by these guys -- well over 600 pics with comments - Some very interesting companies with weird looking speakers -- Accuton gets my vote for strangest speakers (the one that looks like a flower - either on side 3 or 4.

I like how each side (page) carries us through the tour from day 1 to day four with the final wrap-up.

http://www.audiofederation.com/hifii...2006/index.htm

[RoyY51]

was done by these guys -- well over 600 pics with comments - Some very interesting companies with weird looking speakers -- Accuton gets my vote for strangest speakers (the one that looks like a flower - either on side 3 or 4.

I like how each side (page) carries us through the tour from day 1 to day four with the final wrap-up.

http://www.audiofederation.com/hifii...2006/index.htm

Thank you RGA!

I have always wanted to attend this show, but circumstances have always dictated otherwise. Now, thanks to your wonderful pictorial tour, I (almost) feel like I was there. Except, of course, for the fact that I have just as much money now as when I started. Win, win!

Thanks, again!

[RGA]

This was not my tour -- just wnat to be clear.

I wanted to go as well but I just graduated in December and the money after these last 5.5 years had dried up. So Unfortunately I could not make it.

This is some sort of federation of people maybe? Audio Federation and man these guys did a lot of work -- I think they have closer to 1000 pictures than the 600 I initiially said -- and they had some good comments on a number of set-ups.

Still I don;t think shows are always the best way to judge -- you can get a general idea of the sound but the listener seemed to want to be wowed from one room to the next and not every system is about "WOW" so they can sometimes be negatively discussed - especially if the previous room had big powerful "SLAM"

I also think it would be tough with so many different designs and "beliefs" about what good is to really be able to put the pre-conceived biases aside.

Of course I can;t disagree too much with their assessment of Audio Note - I was happy to see that Peter was Playing the heavey metal again to show people that his 8 watt set-ups can make your ears bleed - that alone is an education people need.

[Geoffcin]

If you are not using broadband this link could lock up your computer.

I thought their coverage was pretty awful. A lot of pics, and little content. More like a couple of hifi geeks with a camera than good journalism.

[RGA]

Well they have more pictures than comments but then what other coverage is there?

These guys went and heard a TON of gear. Unlike some other sites that hear maybe 10 rooms.

None of the show reports are particularly deep - they can never be because it is impossible to hear them all -- even these guys missed Cabasse apparently and maybe Cabasse would have been best to them.

I know of previous shows where other web sites had a "best of show" and none of the representatives went into any of the Audio Note or JM Reynaud rooms -- so their best of show beat Sanyo and Polk Audio -- big deal.

[eisforelectronic]

I can't believe I don't remember that much of the show. I could have sworn I at least looked into most of the rooms at Alexis park. I took a very brief listen at AN simply because of RGA's positive raves, but really did not have any time for critical listening. I liked what I heard. I was very impressed by the bass output of the smaller Silverline speakers, only 3" drivers and it's rated down to 35 hz. Everyone that walked into Silverline just stood there dumbfounded. I enjoyed listening to the Anthony Gallo's. Very non-conventional looking speaker with a relatively small footprint producing surprisingly room filling sound. As always Totem was a great experience, I gotta say the people at Totem are always very open about their products and tend to play a larger variety of music and video. In my opinion, the most impressive product at Alexis park was Kaleidoscope. Imagine instant access to any DVD or CD you own in any or every room of your house. And not only access to any disc, but access to any track with automatic resume on everything. When I say instant access, I mean INSTANT. That server was lightning fast.

[drseid]

I thought their coverage was pretty awful. A lot of pics, and little content. More like a couple of hifi geeks with a camera than good journalism.

I agree for the most part... They also had a lot of pics of the few speakers they actually covered instead of covering many rooms (see next paragraph for a potential partial reason for this).

It also should be mentioned that these guys sell speakers, and as such, they gave a lot of coverage to their own lines, while making some negative comments about many competing brands.

I will say that the photos they *did* take were quite good though...

---Dave

[GMichael]

Photos, photos and more photos. WOW RGA! That was a lot of cool pics. Wish I could hear what they sounded like from here.

Thanks for the scope.

[RGA]

I agree for the most part... They also had a lot of pics of the few speakers they actually covered instead of covering many rooms (see next paragraph for a potential partial reason for this).

It also should be mentioned that these guys sell speakers, and as such, they gave a lot of coverage to their own lines, while making some negative comments about many competing brands.

I will say that the photos they *did* take were quite good though...

---Dave

This a two edged debate though -- they carry whatthey carry because they think ti is better than the stuff they don't like-- so it makes sense. Either that or you go with stereophile which loves absolutely everything -- even when it is utter junk. They also cut down a few systems in which they do carry. They seemed to say negative things about Sound Lab and yet they carry Sound Lab for example

[Geoffcin]

I agree for the most part... They also had a lot of pics of the few speakers they actually covered instead of covering many rooms (see next paragraph for a potential partial reason for this).

It also should be mentioned that these guys sell speakers, and as such, they gave a lot of coverage to their own lines, while making some negative comments about many competing brands.

I will say that the photos they *did* take were quite good though...

---Dave

This really isn't CES coverage, it's just a couple of shills working the crowd.