CES and T.H.E. 2009 - Is anyone going?

Just curious how is the CES and T.H.E. show going? Any jaw dropping products/news flash???

01-10-09: Macdadtexas
I should have mentioned as well that the Vandersteen new model was absolutely sublime. Wow!!! Granted, they were one of the few guys who used some room treatments, and they had about $400k worth of gear around them (Clearaudio Statement table that even Clearaudio didn't have), but man, Diana Krall never sounded so good.

Also, the goofy little thing from Peachtree Audio was a Giant Killer. That weird box with a tube, and those tiny speaker sounded fantastic in a very realistic setup, I am suggesting that for a bunch of friends now getting into audio as a starting point. They may never move up, sounded that good.

I was most excited to see my fav gear at Cary Audio, but the room was not that exciting (odd given the new eXcite gear), I really wanted to hear the new DAC and preamp, but they only had it hooked up to headphones and a computer?? Didn't really want to talk with me about it either. I was pretty dissappointed.

Totem, Bryston, Joseph Audio and MBL were all exceptional. I never saw the VPI setup?? Kept looking for it, if someone saw it let me know what it was like.

The most impressive thing at CES was when the guys @ NTT Audio aired out their total Wilson aLexandria rip offs to >120 dB with the symphony playing the exorcist rif, people literally RAN into the room! Someone asked them if they could rock, and Joe proved they can!

I was surprised how bad some rooms sounded this year, many big names rooms frankly sucked despite tons of great gear.

I only hit T.H.E show for a second to see a friend, but it would have driven me nuts to spend any time there, it was so depressing....

Jeff Rowlands room sounded amazing, the best I have ever heard the Thiels sound, and at very reasonable listening levels, possibly the most tubish sound form SS ever.

"...they had about $400k worth of gear around them (Clearaudio Statement table that even Clearaudio didn't have), but man, Diana Krall never sounded so good."

If I have to spend $400k on audio gear just to hear Dianna Krall sound good, will someone please come by the house and just back their car over me in the driveway please?!

No seriously, anything good on the audio/video front? Any amazing projection setups, scalers, screen tech's, or killer multi channel audio systems or technologies to write home about?
Actually, I didn't even know they made 2 channel gear anymore. Do they? Heehehe

I didn't know anyone did multichannel any more? That's so 2004!! What's a scaler? Don't those come standard on Technics recievers??