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In the Sutherland room were the Avalon Vision at 23K, one of only two pair in the Universe and they sounded superb with the VPI HRX. Alison Krauss sounded nearly as good as she did live last year. I have always liked the Avalon sound...clean, delicate and very open with great dimensional contrasts. Sutherland knows how to do phono right.
Cary Audio:There was magic being made in the Cary room. The piano music being played was full of weight and body and demanded to be listened till the piece was over. I liked this room very well.
Threshold:Good news is that Threshold is making gear again and in the Threshold tradition they made great music. The Threshold S/3700e was listed at 3500.00. The system was used with Cardas Neutral Reference interconnect and Speaker cable.
Sound Lab: The M1 SL speakers with the Parasound JC1's provided a grand liquid sound that was very musical. I spoke with John Curl for some time and I was very impressed with the engineering effort that went into the JC1's.
jallen
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dedicatedaudio
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Metralla,

Nice review of the best rooms at CES... As always, a very educational and enjoyable time

I would like to add a couple of components which added to the quality of the ESP and BAT rooms you mention. Power devices were provided by the dynamic and non-coloring Running Springs Audio power devices, cabling by provided by Cardas Audio and Cable Tower cable supports completed the accessories list.

I also felt AudioPax room was outstanding as well. What were your thoughts?
telescope_trade
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Did anyone happen to hear the Tyler Acoustics room??
In particular the Super Towers??
trelja
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Excellent reports Jallen and Metralla! Thank you!!!
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Thanks so much for all the great information from the show!

Cheers,

Chris
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Metralla reports from the Avant Garde room:

"I really wanted to hear the Zanden combination, but the folks in the AvantGarde room claimed that their Zanden transport + DAC was too "green" to show off their system to the best; and they used a 32 bit Audio Aero."

Oh sure, so they brought a brand new component, not broken-in yet to the largest CES in the world? I don't think so!
Oh my goodness, like, what else would they have said? Certainly not the truth, that the Audio Aero kicked the Zanden's butt!
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