Positive Feedback ISSUE 41
january/february 2009

CES and T.H.E. SHOW - 2009, Part 1, Page 5
by Dave and Carol Clark

NTT/Audio Lab room. They had the speakers pumping serious bass ...to the point that the room and hallway overloaded!

Ultralink/XLO products with Wadia Digital.

Ultralink/XLO Argentum were cables beautifully displayed.

Furutech with a wide range of products.

Furutech products, beautifully displayed as always.

More Furutech products. Lots of new items in carbon fibre.

Audio Oasis. Nola loudspeakers Baby Grand Reference loudspeakers. The Nola room always sounds fabulous. Great sound and nice people too!

New from Nola, the Micro Grand Reference loudspeakers, $12,000 pr. They sounded remarkable!

Luke Manley of VTL Amplifiers.

VTL Amplifiers with Indra loudspeakers by Avalon Acoustics.

VTL's new preamplifier.

New loudspeakers from Zu, the Essense.

Zu's new design includes a ribbon tweeter.

Zu used a line of electronics from Italy, single-ended tube amplifiers.

Another close up of the new Zu Essence.

Audio Oasis. The new Essence from Zu provides a lot of bass, and was highly enjoyable to listen to. This system rocked with no hint of concern. Way cool. Zu has dropped all their previous lines of speakers and only offer the Essence. A real steal at $5k. Clean and wonderful.

Sean Casey of Zu always willing to play whatever you want to hear. True music lovers who have a clear distaste for that audiophile-approved genre that is so over-played at shows.

The Lotus Group loudspeakers with Feastrex drivers and Prana Wire cabling.

The hand of Joe Cohen demonstrating proper volume control.

The Lotus Group Oyaide Tunami GPX-R power cable.

More new cable products from The Lotus Group.

An assortment of Acrolink AC devices.

Acoustic Revive products from The Lotus Group.

Audio Oasis. Affirm Audio loudspeakers with Prana Wire cabling and Ayon electronics. The sound was very nice in this room.

Close up of the drivers in the Affirm Audio loudspeakers.