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The Best Show Reporting
Coverage of CES 2000 from Las Vegas, NV --
Jan. 6-9, 2000
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LIVE Product Coverage - January 7 |
The Avid Volvere turntable ($3200) features the same
chassis and main bearing as the more costly Avid Acutus.
And here is the Avid Acutus. The picture is dark,
but you can still get a sense for how massively built this turntable is. The Acutus
($10,000) has an adjustable suspension that allows each spring to be individually
"tuned." It also features a hand-built external power supply.
Analysis Plus cables were in use seemingly everywhere at the CES and T.H.E. Show.
Fans of DH Labs cables will be interested to know that the company introduced new speaker
cables and interconnects, the Q-10 ($265 per ten-foot pair) and Air Matrix ($198 per meter
pair) respectively. As you can guess, both are silver cables.
Vandersteen's new Reference Monitor (approximately
$6000 per pair with Sound Anchor stands) is, according to Richard Vandersteen, essentially
the top portion of the Model 5. It incorporates downward and front-firing 6.5"
woofers. The sound, driven by Quicksilver monoblocks, was sweet.
Perpetual Technologies P-3A DAC (left, $599)
and DAW-1 workstation (top right, $1499) were on soundless display because they are
not yet available -- but they will be later this year. The P-3A will upsample to 24 bits
and 192kHz; the DAW-1 is a "general-purpose audio digital signal processor and
digitally controlled system preamplifier." It will have onboard 24/96, 24/192 and DSD
DACs.
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