The SignalPath suite at the Mirage featured the company's Era speakers and Musical Fidelity electronics—but wait! What's that sitting on top of the kW250 integrated amplifier? It's a laptop!

SignalPath's David Solomon and Jim Spainhour strongly feel that the iPod/iTunes revolution should be embraced by High-End Audio and they asked MF's Antony Michaelson if he would include a USB port on his new XDACv8 D/A processor (left). Ever-obliging, Antony did just that, and the sound in the suite was sourced from iTunes playing uncompressed WAV files.

But what's that on top of the new XRayv8 CD player? It's a wireless router. The SignalPath suite had Sonos multizone WiFi players in each room, and plans are afoot for SignalPath to introduce their own, highly affordable WiFi-connected products.