CES 2015

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CES 2015

Burmester's New Loudspeakers

Larry Greenhill Jan 13, 2015 First Published: Jan 13, 2015 0 comments

Burmester's upbeat and gregarious CEO, Dieter Burmester, was eager to give a live demonstration of his two newest loudspeakers, the $60,000/pair BA-71 and the smaller $30,000/pair BA 31 (above). The larger BA-71 uses four 160mm woofers while the BA-31 employs two woofers.

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Avantgarde's Zero 1

Larry Greenhill Jan 13, 2015 First Published: Jan 13, 2015 0 comments

Stereophile's Jon Iverson grabbed me in the hallway of the Venetian Hotel's 35th floor. He was excited. "You've got to see Avantgarde's new loudspeaker on the 31st floorit's full of features not found in most other loudspeakers." I rushed down the back stairs of the Venetian, and found Avantgarde's Executive Manager, Armin Krauss, who walked me through the $18,500/pair, three-way, Zero 1 loudspeaker.

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MartinLogan’s Neolith

Larry Greenhill Jan 13, 2015 First Published: Jan 13, 2015 0 comments

The $80,000/pair MartinLogan electrostatic hybrid, the Neolith, played with wonderful spatial imaging and translucent sound. The speaker's enclosure was painted in a glossy, thick automotive glass red paint called Rosso Fuoco, but is available in 6 other colors.

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Nola’s Studio Grand Reference Gold

Larry Greenhill Jan 13, 2015 First Published: Jan 13, 2015 0 comments

"Here is a recording that should never be played on this small speaker," said Nola's Carl Marchisotto, as he cued up Reference Recordings choral spectacular, John Rutter's Requiem, to play on Nola's new $19,800/pair Studio Grand Reference Gold loudspeaker.

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ATC's SCM40A

Larry Greenhill Jan 13, 2015 First Published: Jan 13, 2015 0 comments

Brad Lunde, President, of Lone Mountain Audio, the US importer for English speaker manufacturer ATC, showed me this three-way, floorstanding, powered ATC SCM40A loudspeaker ($12,499/pair).

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Enigma Acoustics' Mythology M1

Larry Greenhill Jan 13, 2015 First Published: Jan 13, 2015 0 comments

Wei Chang, designer of the $3690 Sopranino electrostatic supertweeter that John Atkinson reviewed last May, was showing their bookshelf-sized, 42 lb monitor loudspeaker, the $14,690/pair Mythology 1, which incorporates the Sopranino for the top-octave driver.

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The Estelon loudspeakers

Larry Greenhill Jan 13, 2015 First Published: Jan 13, 2015 0 comments

Estelon presented its slim, 151 lb, 50"-tall, $45,000/pair, floorstanding XB loudspeaker (above). The speaker employs an 8" Accuton ceramic-dome woofer, a 6.25" Accuton ceramic-membrane midrange, and a 1" inverted ceramic-dome tweeter. Internal wiring is by Kubala-Sosna, and the crossover capacitors are Teflon-Hybrid. The loudspeaker was beautiful to see, and was playing smoothly and softly as I read about it at the exhibit.

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The Raidho Acoustics X-3

Larry Greenhill Jan 13, 2015 First Published: Jan 13, 2015 0 comments

Danish manufacturer Raidho demonstrated its $30,000/pair, 88 lb, X3 loudspeakers at CES. The remarkable slim towers have four dedicated 4" ceramic midbass drivers and one 8" side-mounted woofer, in addition to a magnetic-planar tweeter that is crossed over at 3kHz.

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Genesis at CES

Larry Greenhill Jan 13, 2015 First Published: Jan 13, 2015 0 comments

Gary Leonard Koh, the President and CEO of Genesis Advanced Technologies, walked me through the latest technological upgrades he has made available through his product line.

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Meridian's Digital Loudspeakers

Larry Greenhill Jan 13, 2015 First Published: Jan 13, 2015 0 comments

Meridian was showing three of their current line of DSP loudspeakers: the $20,000/pair DSP 5200; the $46,000/pair DSP 7200, and the $80,000/pair DSP 8000. These loudspeakers have in common an all-digital input, internal digital signal processing circuitry, and a crossover implemented in the digital domain.