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Some of the turntables and associated analog gear were simply breathtaking, both aurally and visually.
Another Consumer Electronics Show has come and gone with thousands of new audio products announced. What stood out for you at the 2009 CES?
The outstanding audio products at CES and THE SHOW are the newest iterations of the Heil driver Air Motion Transformers from Adam Audio of Germany and Mark & Daniel of Shanghai. Both companies have improved on the original design in their own ways. Adam’s fully powered Tensor Beta loudspeakers at $36,000/pair were arguable the best at these shows. But, for affordability and fantastic sound at $3300/pair, I will be very happy to get a set of Mark & Daniel’s Monitor+ loudspeakers into my showroom. They are well balanced, have wide dispersion (we could hear the left speaker when sitting on a couch to the right of both speakers), and have a clean and natural sound, as if the performers were in the room.