Discovered at the CES: 3-D TV, no glasses! Also neat high-end audio..

I saw 3-D TV WITHOUT GLASSES. In five years or so it will be here. Very impressive.

At the high end show almost all the rooms without exception had vinyl spinning. Everyone was walking around carrying records. It was pretty darn neat.

Clark from Acoustic Sounds introduced me to sugar free Gelato which I had between every lecture and after every meal. I might forgive him someday. The Harbeth 40s in the Acoustic Sounds room sounded great as Clark played some of our NAT KING COLE 45 RPM test pressings on the Thorens turntable in there.

Had an all you can eat buffet at Treasure Island with Lesley & Dick Olsher and others. Talked with Lesley for hours. Great time.

Breakfast every morning at Denny's with VAC's Kevin Hayes & gang. Beats hotel food.

Loved the Gershman BLACK SWAN speakers. Ofra & Eli are great people. At dinner we talked about the situation in Israel and everything else in the world. Nice to not talk about audio all the time..

Joe Nino-Hernes and I agreed that the best bass at the show was in Alan Sides' OCEAN WAY room. His gigantic studio monitors sang while Alan played his master tapes of the JAWS soundtrack on a real Ampex ATR-100 reel to reel.

More open reel madness at the J-Corder room. Love to watch those reels spinning around. A lot of pictures were taken in there of different color Technics machines. Lorin, Kim and Jeff are like one of us (except Lorin and Kim are prettier)....

Elton Evans helped me out again this year by guiding me when the crowds got too much.

Got to see a drug bust at 3:00 am outside my hotel window. Cops yelling "ON YOUR KNEES!!" really loud. Gotta love the Casino Royale.

Was amused to see Joe and Ron of the Blue Note MUSIC MATTERS gang running around being chased by well-wishers sniffing for test pressings. Ron was being bowed to as a Music God (as he should be).

Everyone was much friendlier this year than last. The food seemed to be yummier. The ciggie smoke seemed to be less. "L'Amour #2" sprayed from the air vents at the Venetian seemed to be less. The Porn Expo girls seemed to be prettier.

 

Dave-o,

Sorry, I forgot. It was chaos at the convention center. Barely escaped with my life.

Much safer at the High-End part in the Venetian hotel. (Cuter girls as well).

 

Sounds fun but tiring!

In about 5 years my wide screen TV should be about dead so maybe the next one will be 3-D!

I wonder if there is any degrading effect for 2-D pictures?

Five years - I'm sure they'll fix any problems by then!

 

I call it the "Smoke Lux Cafe".

 

It's open to the casino. Ever heard of second hand smoke?

 

Nagra's 300i integrated amp. 20 watts a channel. Beautiful..

http://www.theaudiobeat.com/ces2010/ces2010_bos_nagra_verity.htm

 

Claus loves these Wilson Audio Sasha speakers but this setup playing vinyl at the show seemed way too bright to me. To me it was just too much. It could have been the cart, the AR electronics or even the record they were playing. Pretty gear though..

http://www.theaudiobeat.com/ces2010/ces2010_bos_continuum_arc_wilson.htm

 

That is some set up

Was it the same when using the CDp?

Edit :- Just read the report.