Home Audio Dominates CES Venetian, Hilton Venues

The audio category was alive and well and living in a bevy of locations off the Central Hall main floor.

January 12, 2010

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Atlantic Technology's Boaz Shalev (left) and Peter Tribeman pose with the first speaker incorporating H-PAS technology: the Model AT-1, slated to ship in early spring.

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At the Audio-Technica booth, president Philip Cajka poses with the AT-LP120-USB and AT-LP60-USB turntables, targeted at vinyl aficionados wanting to convert their collections to digital files

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Bowers & Wilkins’ Doug Henderson talks up the 800 Diamond speaker series. Its smallest member, the 805, now also sports a diamond tweeter

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Definitive Technology’s Paul DiComo shows off the newly released speaker stand for the just-introduced Mythos XTR-50, which debuted at CEDIA Expo 2009 and begins shipping in April

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KEF U.K. acoustic engineering manager Jack Oclee-Brown explains the tenth-generation UniQ driver technology within the company’s Concept Blade speakers. The speakers, made with carbon fiber cabinets, are not for sale but were built, rather, to showcase refinements in UniQ engineering

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Meridian America CEO Peter Wellikoff, with the Sooloos Control 10 touch panel, presides over Meridian and Sooloos lineups that now share common connectivity and consistent setup and GUI protocols

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Monster Cable’s new Jamz in-ear headphones, said by company head monster Noel Lee to be "virtually indestructible"

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NAD’s Stephen DeFuria, with the newly shipping Masters Series M2 direct digital amplifier in the Lenbrook Venetian suite

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Paradigm’s Venetian outpost was home to the newly introduced Anthem BLX200 Blu-ray player – designed to cosmetically match a four-model Anthem receiver line that will begin rolling out in June, said marketing manager Mark Aling

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Peachtree Audio’s Jim Spainhour, David Solomon, and David Richardson, with the new iDecco – touted as the world’s first tube hybrid integrated amp offering “pure digital” signal transmission, via a built-in iPod dock, from the device directly into the unit’s Super DAC

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Polk Audio COO Joseph Tristani puts the company’s new HitMaster speaker, geared to the Guitar Hero player and gamer alike, through its paces during a Venetian-suite demo

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Sennheiser’s Model PMX-680 sports headphones: one of a new series the company is co-branding with athletic footwear and apparel company adidas. The company launched the line at its CES booth with the helo of athlete Tyson Gay – the “second-fastest man in the world”

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Gary Dayton of Thiel demonstrates the fruits of the speaker company’s collaboration with media server supplier Olive. The Olive + Thiel HD Music System ($7,900) includes an HD music server with 2TB of storage capacity paired with the Thiel SCS4D IP-based speaker with built-in amplification. The system is expandable to other zones without adding another Olive box

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In Tivoli Audio’s suite, Ron Sylvester shows the company’s first non-audio product: The Connector iPhone/iPod dock. It sports an adjustable wheel mechanism that can be tightened or loosened behind the device seated in the dock, for secure support

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Waterfall Audio’s Nadine Chaix Dewell shows the company’s $54,000/pair Niagara glass loudspeakers, whose drivers are sheathed in custom-color Nappa leather

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