11 High-Performance Audio Demos at CES
By Arlen Schweiger
Here's a tour through the audio setups at the Venetian during CES.

At the Consumer Electronics Show, the Venetian is the equivalent of audiophile nirvana.

Divided into just a few floors are hundreds of rooms that contain electronics, loudspeakers and cables that are worth millions of dollars, and most of the rooms sound like a million bucks, too. Heck, some of the products in individual suites probably neared six figures on their own!



I will preface this by saying I did stay away from super high-end rooms you may have read about in dedicated audio magazines, so the most expensive speakers I saw, for example, were probably about $30K per pair (if you want to judge by price tags).

But that didn't stop me and my ears from hearing the sweet sounds of some phenomenal setups -- everything from small bookshelf speakers to big floorstanders, from solid-state electronics to tubes, from high-resolution audio files to old-school vinyl.

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