Antony Yim, marketing & product manager for B&W Group Asia Limited, used the 40<SUP>th</SUP> anniversary of B&W to give a history lesson that includes classic B&W products and a memorial wall.

Over 10,000 products; seven floors of audio; "every manufacturer who matters from the US, Canada, Europe, China, Korea, Japan, and Kowloon;" and more than 30,000 people over four days.

McIntosh was showing a "true 1080p high-def" projector. I said, "I didn't see this at CEDIA."

This one's for Stephen Mejias. GuangZhou Hi-Fi 2006 is <I>seriously</I> into booth babes. I could almost do a series on that subject alone. You may talk among yourselves.

GuangZhou Hi-Fi 2006 was opened by the mayor of GuangZhou and other dignitaries, and included a pulchritudinous ribbon-cutting ceremony.

China really <I>likes</I> Christmas. It makes for some odd bedfellows.

This is Ping Gong, one of my hosts and my fellow traveler. At breakfast this morning, he explained to me how he became an audiophile. "It was the Cultural Revolution," he said. "We weren't allowed to study, so we played music and talked. I had a big Russian turntable&mdash;mono! And one speaker, of course.