Hi All,

I am here at CES, and I thought I would quickly go over some of the stuff I heard and saw.

Magico Mini - Sounds good, but not $25K good.

Devore Super 9 - Liked what I heard, but they were only playing vinyl, so I could not hear my CDs with them.

Nola - Something was wrong with these, they did not sound good/right.

Strata Mini - Very nice. For $2K, very competitive.

Audes Model 5 - Very nice....very balanced, but would like to listen to it some more as we heard something interesting in the lower mids/upper bass.

TacT Audio - Someone there needs to learn how to give demos....what they had us listen to made no sense.

DEQX - Very nice demo. If I had the cash, something I would loved to play around with.

NuForce - Their speakers sounded very nice.....carved out of a big chunk of wood. For a ported speaker, it looked like the woofers were working hard, but did not have the bass output you would expect.

TAD - New Reference 1 speaker. I may be biased, but I love these things. For $60K a pair...probably not something I will ever attain, but I will always take an offer to listen to them. We are going back today for a surround/hi-rez demo.

That's what I can quickly remember off of the top of my head.