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CES 2018

Davis Acoustics Nikita Bookshelf Speaker

Jon Iverson Jan 10, 2018

Hailing from the Champagne region of France, Davis Acoustics has been making speakers for over 30 years. The company produces OEM drive units that they sell to other manufacturers (including Goldmund and Avant Garde), but also sells their own extensive line of products.

CES 2018

Esprit Cables

Jon Iverson Jan 10, 2018

Sharing the room with Davis Acoustics and also from France, Esprit has been in business for 20 years and produces a complete line of handmade audio cables. The company has only been at CES for two years however and until now has not had much distribution outside its home region.

CES 2018

Constellation Audio Pictor Preamplifier and Taurus Amplifier

Jon Iverson Jan 10, 2018

The new $18,000 Pictor preamp is part of Constellation Audio's new Revelation Series, which is one step up from the company's entry-level Inspiration Series. Constellation's Irv Gross explained that the Pictor uses the same basic chassis as the Inspiration version, but has a separate power supply.

CES 2018

CES Begins with Hi-Res Revelations from MQA, Qobuz, and More

Jason Victor Serinus Jan 10, 2018

For John Atkinson and me, CES began with a trip to the Hi-Res Pavilion in the Las Vegas Convention Center's enormous Central Hall. John must have been a dog in a past lifetime, because his ability to find the booth in the middle of that huge glittering morass, which could be euphemistically characterized as high tech on steroids, smacked of a sixth sense.

CES 2018

Mobile MQA Playback from LG

Jason Victor Serinus Jan 10, 2018

It may look like any other smartphone, but LG's V30, shown by Vanessa Marrero, is smart enough to incorporate ESS's Sabre 32-bit Quad DAC

CES 2018

Elac's Discovery

Jason Victor Serinus Jan 10, 2018

Elac, which has been around for many more years than Andrew Jones has been designing speakers for them, has now released their Roon-friendly Discovery DS-S101-G music server ($1100), which allows you to play your own music files via an external HD or NAS

CES 2018

Mytek's Latest

Jason Victor Serinus Jan 10, 2018

With Mytek's Michal Jurewicz in the background, the company's Chebon Littlefield showed the new Clef high-resolution, MQA-equipped, Bluetooth-equipped, mobile USB DAC/headphone amplifier ($299).

CES 2018

MQA Expands its Reach

Jason Victor Serinus Jan 10, 2018

With Warner, Universal Music Group, and Sony as major shareholders/partners, it's no wonder that MQA figured so prominently in the CES Hi-res pavilion. MQA wasn't everywhereQobuz hasn't seen fit to embrace it as yet, and the majority of audio manufacturers have yet to get on boardbut it has certainly come to mobile phones and players.

CES 2018

New from Audeze

Jason Victor Serinus Jan 10, 2018

Thanks to automated manufacturing, Audeze has produced its first "affordable" in-ear phones, the iSine LX ($199), currently sold via their website

CES 2018

Increcable Acoustic Lab TPC-1HP Preamp

Jon Iverson Jan 09, 2018

Pennsylvania-based distributor/exporter Dyson Lai proudly presented the gorgeous new TPC-1HP tube preamp from Seattle, Washington-based Increcable Acoustic Lab. Retail will be $6,000 when the preamp is released in the next couple months.