CES 2005: Who had the best bang for the buck room?

Star Sound Technology. They used a lot of their accessories, along with their own amp and new speakers. In my opinion they were in the top four for sound at CES and that at a fraction of the Wavac, VTL, and Dali rooms. Amazing, even at the price.

Nrchy, SST sounds very good but remember that they use the dCS source components so this needs to be considered in perspective.

You are right. I guess $20,000 worth of digital could hardly be considered budget. They still had better sound than a lot of higher priced gear. Still a good bang for the buck. I wonder what the total cost of the system was that they were playing?

Gaudio_eek what is your choice, or are you disqualified.

We could have used a $3k turntable, and had better sound, and would have been in a very affordable range, as high end systems go.

However, we realized that most people use CD, and want to hear demos with the format that they most commonly use, so we used a very good digital player.

To demo our products, it only makes sense to use a quality front end, which is the only part of the system that we don't currently manufacture.

Nate, thanks for your vote about the sound quality of our room.
Tom Lyons
Starsound Technologies