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The ever-lovely Rosemarie Torcivia and Cynthia Fontaine, running the <I>Stereophile</I> room at the Venetian. They'd appreciate it if someone would bring them a decent sounding stereo to listen to. An ipod even.

"This," Quartet Marketing's Stirling Trayle proudly said, "is the T + A Music Player."

The Music Player has tons of inputs: USB2.0, iPod (with control and display), S/PDIF digital coaxial, TOSlink digital optical, LAN, W-LAn, and RS232 for update and control interface.

It exists; we saw it for ourselves! Wadia's $349 iTransport can take the digital signal out of an iPod <I>before</I> the DAC, outputting 16-bit/44.1khz resolution for uncompressed files&mdash;it doesn't upconvert lower-rez files like MP3s, but it <I>does</I> reformat them to 16/44.1, according to Wadia's John Schaffer.

The back of the iTransport fully decked out with XLO cabling.

We ran into SinglePower Inc.'s Mikhail Rotenberg as he was sprinting down the hall to the Synergistic Research room. "Check these out," he said. "These are a 1932 Tung Argon 4327 and a 1943 722A (323), labeled Centennial, but manufactured by Western Electric."

The show has just opened its doors and <I>Stereophile</I>'s Stephen Mejias holds the new Product of the Year awards to be handed out all day long.