HE 2004 Key Kim

May 4, 2013

The 2004 Home Entertainment Show Key Kim I always enjoy the Home Entertainment Show when it takes place in New York and this year’s HE 2004 was no different. No need worrying about flight schedules or hotel reservations, just hop, skip and a jump on a IRT #5 subway and I’m there in 15 minutes. […]

HE 2004 Nack Report

May 4, 2013

                                    Marshall Nack’s       Home Entertainment 2004               Report                      Tubes, tubes everywhere! When I arrived at the New York Hilton, the site of this year’s Home Entertainment2004, I decided I would start at the top. I wanted to get my day off to a good start […]

HE 2003 Constantine Soo

May 4, 2013

Quite a few prominent manufacturers, such as B&W, Krell, Linn, Mark Levinson and Wadia did not participate into HE 2003.  In addition to new DVD-related product announcements, Sony mentioned a new, 9.1 surround sound concept in their Press Day Conference. We were then ushered to a separate demonstration room on the other side of the […]

Chicago AXPONA

May 4, 2013

2013 AXPONA: “The Best Rooms”   The Blues Brothers would put it this way: “Come on, baby don’t you want to go Back to that same old place Sweet home Chicago!” WWE Wrestler and movie star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson would put it this way: “Finally, the high-end has come BACK to Chi-ca-gooooo!” Stereo Times editor Dave […]

Audio power labs. Laufer Teknik.

May 3, 2013

As in the Quintessence Audio suite, the PBN Audio suite consisted of a pair of  wildebeest sized PBN model WAS-2 loudspeakers, a Groovemaker turntable and Olympia series electronics through and through. This was one of those rooms I just never got around to sitting in for any length of time that would justify a report. […]

The Mark Levinson (The Man) Experience

May 3, 2013

I’m starting off this year’s report by telling you about the most memorable experience I had during the week because it actually sets the stage for what I thought about a lot of what I saw at this year’s Consumer Electronic Show (CES) and The Home Entertainment Show (T.H.E. Show). I was walking the halls […]

Another CES

May 3, 2013

Another CES! Yes, this is probably my favorite time of the year. I had a feeling this year was going to be a good one, and it was. To start off, the weather was perfect for flying to and from NYC. No snow this time around. ‘Vegas is usually sunny and warm throughout the day […]

CES Sponsor

May 3, 2013

    Just as winter is the pause before spring’s rebirth, I found taking one year off from attending CES was refreshing. As I walked the halls and visited the rooms in 2012, I could see and feel some changes along with the same old same old. With nearly 250 rooms between CES and T.H.E. […]

Merryl Jaye art

May 3, 2013

Surprisingly, this was the first time I attended a CES where I wasn’t immediately overwhelmed by the throngs of technophiles who annually converge in sunny Las Vegas each winter for the world’s largest and most popular electronics trade show. My arrival at McCarran International airport was a relatively safe and comfortable one thanks in part […]

T.H.E. Show Marketplace

May 3, 2013

  Adjacent to all the free food and live music was the T.H.E. Marketplace where all sorts of audio goodies can be purchased.   Robert Stein of the Cable Company (photo above) has many tweaks that are new to the market. His newest HiFi Fuses from Germany have caused quite a stir over here. Todd […]