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The Best Show Reporting
Coverage of CES 2000 from Las Vegas, NV --
Jan. 6-9, 2000
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| SoundStage!
LIVE Award Presentation - Edge of the Art |
Above: Doug Schneider along with Elina Dobin and Vladimir
Shushurin of Lamm Industries. Right: Doug presents
the award to David Wilson of Wilson Audio Specialties. |
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A tale of two very
expensive and impressive products that share this year's Edge of the Art award. In March,
Marc Mickelson found that the single-ended Lamm ML2 amplifiers
"...very well may be the most complete-sounding amplifiers you can buy." In
August, Jeff Fritz proclaimed the Wilson X-1 Grand SLAMM Series II
speakers "...as faithful a bridge to the music as I’ve heard." Both are
inspired designs that take no sonic parameter for granted and spare little to no cost in
their creation. Interestingly, Lamm's Vladimir Shushurin has commented that his ML2s drive
the SLAMMs exceedingly well. One owner of his electronics uses two pairs to bi-amp the
speakers. Although both products are out of financial reach of most consumers, they
represent the pinnacle of audio performance.
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