"What's new?" We'd just walked into the Channel Islands Audio room and spotted Dusty Vawter.

"Nothing really," he said.

"What's this?"

"Oh, that's the world's smallest AC conditioner, the XDC2 ($299). It removes DC from your AC, which is the leading cause of transformer chatter."

So there is something new?

"Well, I don't like to brag."

And here we thought that's what CES was for.