Esprit High-End Audio Cables
Esprit, a French cable company celebrating its 20th anniversary, was represented by Richard Cesari. Now imported by Source Systems Ltd., the cables are all handmade. "It takes 16 hours to make one cable," said Cesari.
ESS Holds Several Records
Take that, you vinylphobes
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Genesis Presents the Maestro
An evolution of the original Genesis 5, which was designed by Arnie Nudell and released in 1994, the Genesis Maestro ($30,000/pair), designed by Gary Koh (above), is a highly efficient loudspeaker that can be driven by just a few watts.
GoldenEar's New Flagship
The introduction of a new speaker from GoldenEar Technology is always an event, especially so when it's a new flagship speaker
Grand Prix Audio's Grand New Racks
Grand Prix Audio has two new equipment racks. The first is the four-post Monaco Nouvelle (on the left in the photo above, approx. $27,000-$30,000 for a four-shelf rack, depending upon options)
Harmonic Resolution Systems VXR
Harmonic Resolution Systems (HRS) showed its new top-of-the-line VXR Audio Stand ($25,000-$31,000 for a four-shelf stand). The VXR, which sports a new frame system, lets the user adjust the amount of space between each component shelf
Health-Food Huddle
What is not clear, at this moment, is how many premieres we will actually encounter
Hegel Music Systems Röst
Perhaps because of Bent Holter's recent revision of his "distortion-reducing" SoundEngine technology, the elegant Röst drove the desktop-mounted KEF-LS50s with purity, lust, and musical authority
Heisenberg, Certainly
The HeisenbergAudionet's largest and most powerful monoblock amplifierwas on display in a portion of the suite shared with YG Acoustics
Hi-Res Education
At least one exhibitor informed me, at the end of Day Two, that a lot of people he encountered thought that hi-res referred solely to streaming. This exhibitor found that visitors were quite attracted to the Astell&Kern portable audio players that were located near his exhibit, but pretty clueless as to sound quality of his far more expensive gear