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Audioville and KEF
Art Dudley  |  Mar 23, 2012  |  0 comments
The speaker of choice in the Audioville room was the brand new KEF Blade ($30,000/pair): a consumer-friendly version of something that started life as a KEF concept speaker. (In particular, in order to reduce costs, the latter's carbon-fiber enclosure has been replaced with one made of a composite resin.) Mid frequencies and treble are handled by the metal-diaphragm KEF UNI-Q array, while low frequencies are given over to two pairs of side-mounted 9" drivers, working in tandem so that bass energy is neither wasted nor allowed to travel through the enclosure structure to modulate the higher frequencies.
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Lifetime Achievement Award: Marc Denis
Robert Deutsch  |  Mar 23, 2012  |  0 comments
As B&W's Doug Henderson pointed out in his presentation speech, being a manufacturer's rep in audio is often a thankless job. If sales are slow, the rep gets blamed, but it they're going well, that's just taken for granted. But not this time: the Lifetime Achievement Award was given to Marc Denis (pictured), rep for B&W, Rotel, and Classé.
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Lifetime Achievement Award: Richard Petit
Robert Deutsch  |  Mar 23, 2012  |  0 comments
One of the two Lifetime Achievement Awards was given to Richard Petit, President of KeébecSon. The presentation was made by Richard's daughter, Marie-Eve, and was the most touching event at the party.
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Gerard and Lionel
Robert Deutsch  |  Mar 23, 2012  |  0 comments
Gerard Rejskind (left), editor of UHF magazine, and last year's recipient of the SSI Lifetime Achievement Award, is pictured here with Simaudio's Lionel Goodfield (right).
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Vince Scalzitti
Robert Deutsch  |  Mar 23, 2012  |  0 comments
Partygoer Vince Scalzitti's Tri-Cell Enterprises is Canadian distributor for no fewer than 19 product lines, from Acapella to Vandersteen. Vince is so low-key that he hardly seems to be in a business that involves sales, but he's highly successful at it.
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Sheldon Ginn
Robert Deutsch  |  Mar 23, 2012  |  0 comments
Seen at the party: Monitor Audio's Sheldon Ginn, winner of the Chris Pine Lookalike Contest.
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Caroline St. Louis
Robert Deutsch  |  Mar 23, 2012  |  0 comments
SSI staff member and singer/flute player Caroline St. Louis took some time off from her career to have a baby, but she was back in top form at SSI 2012, singing with her Give Band.
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Sarah Tremblay
Robert Deutsch  |  Mar 23, 2012  |  0 comments
With the title of Director, Sarah Tremblay is Michel Plante's partner in the SSI enterprise.
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The SSI Cocktail Party
Robert Deutsch  |  Mar 23, 2012  |  0 comments
The party on the Trade Day of the show, hosted by SSI, is always well attended, and provides a good indication of the general mood. This time the mood was decidedly upbeat: people in the trade looking forward to having a good show.
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Salon Son et Image #25 Starts Friday
Jason Victor Serinus  |  Mar 19, 2012  |  5 comments
The magic numbers, for Salon Son et Image, are 25, 100, and 10,000. Canada's first and largest high-end audio show, whose 25th-anniversary show arrives March 23–25 (press day March 22) in downtown Montreal's Hilton Bonaventure, expects to set a new attendance record as up to 10,000 visitors explore 100 exhibit rooms.
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The Light Harmonic DaVinci USB DAC
Robert Deutsch  |  Mar 26, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
The Light Harmonic DaVinci USB is perhaps the most unusual-looking DAC I've seen, with the top of the unit that can be rotated. It's a non-upsampling, non-oversampling, no-negative-feedback design, with up to 384kHz/32-bit capability. The DaVinci uses three transformers in the power supply: one for digital, one for analog, and one for USB and control. This looks like a very serious design, and the price is correspondingly serious $20,000.
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