It's just after 10pm, here in Las Vegas. The moon is an eyelash.
A group of people in tight jeans and flashy shirts recently left the hotel, and are following the lights toward the casinos.
Others are now stumbling back to their rooms, drunk, with smiles on their faces and money in their pockets.
Have a good night.
As a reader pointed out, missing from Wes Phillips' coverage of Wednesday's Thiel CS3.7 press conference was a picture of the new speaker. Here it is, pictured with Jim Thiel waxing lyrical about his new midrange diaphragm.From top to bottom: the new coaxial tweeter/midrange unit; 10" aluminum-cone woofer; 10" aluminum-cone passive radiator.
The CES's "Innovations" exhibit at the Sands Convention Center is intended to honor the most technologically advanced and ground-breaking consumer electronic products at the Show. Most of the display cases were still waiting to be populated on set-up day (though we spotted B&W's cute cylindrical subwoofer as well as Krell's Dean Roumanis wheeling in some big boxes). But some of the choices for an award raised our eyebrows, as with this robot intended to train boxers in the comfort of their own homes. Stereophile's Stephen Mejias strikes a suitably pugilistic pose. My definition of great writing is writing that makes you care about stuff you never even knew interested you. By that definition, this Warren St. John article explaining why he cares about college football qualifies. I think I'm going to buy Rammer, Jammer, Yellow Hammer for the flight home from Vegas.
I see it, but I can't make it work.
Nothing says romance like a guinea pig costume.
This one's from the heart—take that you DRM-ing major labels!
above paradise road,
but only just above,
jet planes shatter silence,
flying so wonderfully low,
you'd think you could jump up
and spin their black wheels.
Jonathan Tinn of Blue Light Audio came to the show equipped with his collection of classical composer action figures. Mozart is on his shoulder with Beethoven in the other hand. Wagner is still in the package. Collect them all.
Audiophiles know that cleaning up their AC supplies can yield a cornucopia of sonic benefits, including a quieter background, better retrieval of detail, and a subjectively wider dynamic range. The phenomenon is so well-recognized that it has spawned an entire industry devoted to making electrical conditioners, line filters, noise suppressors, and specialty power cords.This last category has been the subject of a year-long research and development project at Ogden, UT–based Kimber Kable, where engineers have been working to correlate subjective auditory impressions with the electrical and…
