Vinyl at CES

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Who says that vinyl is dead? You surely wouldn't have known at this year's CES show. It seemed that at least 30%, if not over half, of the exhibitors were spinning the big black discs.

One of the more interesting items was the moddified Empire 208 found in the Atma-Sphere/CAR room. Ralph Karsten replaces the plinth with a new one milled from solid aluminum and claims that it'll match up to anything made today and that nothing today has as good a motor. I'll leave that to others, but with the Triplanar arm, this baby sounded great.

In case you missed it earlier, Jonathan Carr was showing a production sample of a new phonostage dubbed the Erodian with a target price under 4,000. JC hopes to have this product available around Arpil. It'll support most lower output cartridges and will give us a taste of his hi-end phono for less than the cost of an exotic car.

The Imedia RPM-1 was playing music with a new Lyra cartridge, the Titan, $4,500. As always, with the Audio Physic speakers and Connoisseur frontend, it sounded quite good.
And if art deco is your thing....

Try the Vyger Indian Signature model priced at $32,000 with the vacumn option. Sure you could save $3,000 by passing on the vacumn, but naw, that just wouldn't be right.
Or for a more down to Earth product, the Teres Audio table was found in the Cain & Cain room and can handle your gooves for around a tenth the price of the Vyger.

Music Hall also had their entire line up. Here's the MMF-9:

Well, that's the overview, to see a whole bunch more, click below.

Vinyl eye candy from CES (Open in New Window)

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Topic - Vinyl at CES - Rod M 11:26:55 01/14/03 (14)

Re: Vinyl at CES VPI HRX??? - ewd 17:39:07 01/19/03 (0)

Re: Vinyl at CES - Ivan303 10:24:05 01/18/03 (0)

Gorgeous looking turntable in levinson room - Twilo 18:44:31 01/17/03 (0)

Aluminum plinth. I don't think so. - Arnie 01:28:04 01/15/03 (2)

Re: Aluminum plinth. I don't think so. - Rod M 06:53:45 01/15/03 (1)

Platter - StylinLP 07:00:48 01/15/03 (0)

Thanks for the great photos! <nt> - mr.bear 14:46:46 01/14/03 (0)

Re: Vinyl at CES - Noam 13:33:40 01/14/03 (1)

Re: Vinyl at CES - Rod M 13:58:58 01/14/03 (0)

Micro Seiki 5000 - RonyW 12:39:18 01/14/03 (2)

Re: Micro Seiki 5000 - Rod M 12:53:21 01/14/03 (1)

ok, thks......................NT - RonyW 12:54:41 01/14/03 (0)

Re: Vinyl at CES - joneill 12:15:07 01/14/03 (0)

Re: Vinyl at CES - ronfint 12:12:31 01/14/03 (0)

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