Back from CES..

That's all well and good, but how were the booth babes?

Fake.


Most of them anyways. Had I stayed another day and had another $75, I would have gone to the AVN. I didn't get a call from them, so I guess my video entry wasn't nominated for a prize... but then again they don't have the awards show until Sat night, so there's still time..



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Originally Posted by Curt Palme /forum/post/0


There was only ONE video display that impressed me. Really. but you'll have to wait until I post about it. Still, right now it's $70K for a 50" screen.

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Four 9500LCs stacked and blended?

And don't get me started about the audiophile displays that I went to at the Venetian/Sands.


Apparently they don't call some of them audioFOOLS for nothing. I'll post about the cable demonstration that I was witness to.


description of an audiofool from what I saw over there:


(if 3 or more of the following apply to you, you qualify!)


-rich

-over 50, maybe 45 if you're lucky and don't age well

-believe what you're told without question by manufacturer's reps.

-balding

-have a beard (goatees usually don't count)

-listen to obscure pan flute solos or similar from record companies you've never heard of.

-pay no attention to room treatment

-believe that anything a $10 part can do, a $100 part will do better, and a $1000 part will work 100X better than the $10 part.

-got an 'A in creative writing and can apply words like 'focus' and 'fluidity' as pertaining to audio equipment.


(OK, I'll stop now, too many of you are starting to fall into 2 or more categories...



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Originally Posted by Art Sonneborn /forum/post/0


So far the thing I see from posts is guys who just bought a Pearl a month ago are considering getting the new JVC already.


Art

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I concur Art. I posted a thread on the over 3,500 side asking has the ruby lost it's luster ,and they overwhelmingly said they were upgrading because they can and they like to improve with the industry...or something like that. i hardly thing it's cost effective to buy something for 15k and then sell it for 4k a year later.

I though the 3-D flat screens looked cool. No glasses needed, had to be in the right place for the effect too work. Do not think I could watch alot of TV off one, not sure if it just takes getting used to or what.


The little tiny flat and small as a credit card OLED displays were something that looked interesting, now if they could make the whole device as large as a credit card they would have something that would be in everyones wallet.


There was a million flat panel displays everywhere, was getting sick of seeing those.


LG and Pioneer had Drives for the computer, BR and HD DVD and all, asked questions about the drives and most of the people were dumb as rocks.


Did not see anything new in the Screen section. Did not know that Vutec had done away with the 13 gain curved screen. Saw one screen that did not look very good that they had set up as a undarkened theater, lots of sparkels, very distracting from the image they had up, made my homemade screen look stellar.


Went to hear the high end audio stuff, my buddy that is into it said the stuff sucked, sounded pretty good to me though, they stayed away from any music with bass in it. My HT system that I use with stereo recordings has way better imaging, the only thing I liked about their systems was the music was more defined, most I believe being the recordings they used, going to buy one CD (Beatles remastered songs) they were using to see how it compares to my system.


One thing I learned, I going to make sure I plan out what I will see as there was just way too much stuff just to graze through.


Deron.

Too bad I didn't meet up with you there!


I hvae a lazy left eye, so 3D stuff doesn't work for me, although I tried it at the Sanyo booth.

The big (old) news is the LG BR/HD DVD combo player, although I swear I heard a sales pitch once that said they'd play the two versions SIMULTANEOUSLY.


I agree, many of the people there couldn't answer a tech question in the slightest, which is really too bad. Two people did direct me to people that could. I underdressed this year which seemed to make a HUGE difference if sales reps took you seriously or not. I dressed in a sweatshirt and jeans and runners. I was comfy while walking around, and pretty much got ignored. Except by Sam Runco. He and I had a good conversation.. (and no, I'm not being sarcastic either!).


Oh, XM radio killed off all of their live entertainment which was a drag. Reading between the lines, I don't think they are doing very well. Apparently Sirius is catching up in subscribers. When will the two formats merge into one?



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Originally Posted by Curt Palme /forum/post/0


And don't get me started about the audiophile displays that I went to at the Venetian/Sands.Apparently they don't call some of them audioFOOLS for nothing. I'll post about the cable demonstration that I was witness to.description of an audiofool from what I saw over there:

(if 3 or more of the following apply to you, you qualify!)


-rich

-over 50, maybe 45 if you're lucky and don't age well

-believe what you're told without question by manufacturer's reps.

-balding

-have a beard (goatees usually don't count)

-listen to obscure pan flute solos or similar from record companies you've never heard of.

-pay no attention to room treatment

-believe that anything a $10 part can do, a $100 part will do better, and a $1000 part will work 100X better than the $10 part.

-got an 'A in creative writing and can apply words like 'focus' and 'fluidity' as pertaining to audio equipment.


(OK, I'll stop now, too many of you are starting to fall into 2 or more categories...

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LOL, your getting funny in your old age. I haven't heard a single mention of turntables. If no one was runng a nice TT then I consider that to be ZERO Audiophile displays.