California Guitar Trio

CES 2012

By John Atkinson • Posted: Jan 12, 2012

Unlike consumer shows, live music at a CES is a rarity, so it was a treat to listen to the California Guitar Trio performing at the party Harman threw to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Mark Levinson brand. Sponsored by Guitar Aficionado magazine, the Trio ripped through a wide repertoire, including "Pipeline" from surf music pioneers The Chantays, which they were playing as I took the photo. Jon Iverson has already discussed some of the 40th Anniversary Mark Levinson products; for me the party was an opportunity to catch up with speaker engineer Mark Glazer, responsible for the system design of both Revel's new Performa speakers (report to come) and many other great Revel speakers over the years.

Comments

Perfoma3 Report

Submitted by Ajani on January 12, 2012 - 9:20am.

I'm really looking forward to the report on the Performa3 range. I also really hope that a review is forthcoming as well.

CGT

Submitted by ColinJR on January 12, 2012 - 12:35pm.

Those guys are outstanding musicians. I've had a chance to both hear them play and meet them.

nice to see...

Submitted by returnstackerror on January 12, 2012 - 2:05pm.

acoustical instruments play as they should be... without aid of amplification or effect stomp boxes...

Huh?

Submitted by John Atkinson on January 12, 2012 - 8:07pm.

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acoustical instruments play as they should be... without aid of amplification or effect stomp boxes...

Huh? - JA

They are amplified, they have

Submitted by soulful.terrain on January 13, 2012 - 3:15pm.

They are amplified, they have guitar cables plugged in to them and those certainly look like pedal boards on the floor ;-)

Are the S-Phile crew vying to put together...

Submitted by Jaques Fish on January 12, 2012 - 3:39pm.

a compendium of the worse photogrpahs ever taken and published at an audio show? Inquiring minds would like to know.

Hey...

Submitted by John Atkinson on January 12, 2012 - 8:09pm.

It was dark, exposure was 1/2 second at f2.8, and would you believe that the guitarists couldn't stay perfectly still for that time :-) - JA

Fair enough...

Submitted by Jaques Fish on January 12, 2012 - 9:48pm.

I guess you couldn't have boosted the ISO? Sure, you may get a little bit of noise but you may have gotten a sharper shot. Also, it seems that the focus seems to be on the effects boxes on the floor.

I see you've taken to the fancy cocktails. It could be interefering with your photographic prowess ;-)

Enough fair?

Submitted by John Atkinson on January 13, 2012 - 12:46am.

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I guess you couldn't have boosted the ISO? Sure, you may get a little bit of noise but you may have gotten a sharper shot.

It was 800 ASA; more than that and there is more noise than image with my camera :-(

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Also, it seems that the focus seems to be on the effects boxes on the floor.

They were the only things not moving :-)

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I see you've taken to the fancy cocktails. It could be interefering with your photographic prowess ;-)

:-)

Huh right back at ya

Submitted by returnstackerror on January 14, 2012 - 2:47pm.

I guess JA and soulful.terrain didnt pick up on my irony and sarcasm.

I tried to find a smiley that represented the sarcasm emotion but it doesnt exist

JA has probably been living in the USA too long and lost his British gene related to humour.

Peter

soulful.terrain this might help

Submitted by returnstackerror on January 14, 2012 - 4:46pm.

'Sarcasm' brain areas discovered

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4566319.stm

lol :-)

Submitted by soulful.terrain on January 16, 2012 - 5:50pm.

How did I miss it. It was so......obvious?

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