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Way, way up on the Venetian Tower's 35th floor, I chatted for a bit with Ayre's Brent Hefley about the traffic at this year's show.
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in-wall<br>
custom installation<br>
active speaker systems<br>
multi-channel processors
Rows 15 Through 30
<i>Written on the Sunday morning plane from LaGuardia to Las Vegas.</i>
The iPhone Will Set You Free!
It's everything you need.
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Alabama
For Martin Luther King day, here's John Coltrane's haunting "Alabama," which, according to Sascha Feinstein and Craig Werner, was based on the rhythms of the eulogy Martin Luther King delivered at the funeral for the four girls slain when their church was dynamited in Birmingham.
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Kyle Gann on Teaching Composing
Boy, this is great writing tempered by knowledge and experience.
What product most piqued your interest from CES 2007? Why?
We saw amps, speakers, music servers, iPod adaptors, and other products galore. Now that CES 2007 is over, what product most piqued your interest from the show this year? Why?
Final CES Thoughts
<B>Big Trends:</B><BR>
<I>Wireless Speakers</I>—except that they replace the speaker wire with an AC cord, so you come out kind of even.<BR>
<I>Music Servers</I>—of course it's the sound that matters, but the interface is what will make the difference. Sooloos leads the way.<BR>
<I>Apple iPhone</I>—it's wireless and an iPod. This means your remote can now be your music library too. This will sink in soon, and audiophile WiFi will take off.
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About AACS
On our last News Desk post of 2006, we reported that an anonymous hacker called Muslix64 had announced that he had <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/010107hacked/">cracked</A> the Advanced Access Content System (AACS) digital rights management (DRM) scheme. Muslix64 said he'd release more details (and decryption software) on January 2. That software, called BackupHDDVD, is now available <A HREF="http://rapidshare.com/files/8318838/BackupHDDVD.zip.html%22">online</A&…; and the Internets have been all atwitter about it, with charges ranging from "bogus!" to "hallelujah!"
Surrounded By TAD Speakers
As regular magazine readers may know, I have not succumbed to the blandishments of surround-sound in my own listening room. But I still look at Shows for that convincingly magic experience. Listening to Ray Kimber's four-channel Isomike recordings in his 35th-floor <A HREF="http://blog.stereophile.com/ces2007/107nowthats/">room at the Venetian</A> was indeed magic, though that was due in large part to his DSD-encoded masters capturing the appropriate spatial information. But across the hall, TAD was showing off a surround system comprising five of its Reference One speakers ($60,000/pair), driven by Pass Labs amps with a variety of commercial recordings, from two-channel to multichannel on SACD.