Best of CES: The Super Short List

January 9th, 2011 by Walt Ribeiro

LAS VEGAS: The 2011 CES Expo in Las Vegas had no shortage of state of the art speakers, pre-amps, and gadgets.

Zowie! Listen to the WOWee.

The products featured here hope to make their way into the NYC Audio and Video world. Behind all of the cars, electronics, speakers, and more, there were two items that really stood out to us as being of Buzzworthy in the world of SonicScoop:

WOWee Portable Speaker —

Most speakers deliver mid and high frequencies, but have no low end. Enter, The WOWee Portable speaker. The people at WOWee created a hand sized speaker that uses the table, or platform it sits on as the vehicle for its bass frequencies. It plugs into your iPhone, iPad, iPod, MP3 player, or computer, and at just $80 is a good alternative to other options. Checking your mixes on the move just got easier.

ISOMIKE —

ISOMIKE blows minds -- not speakers.

Imagine recording audio with no limiting, no compression, no mixing, and no equalization. That’s what you get with the ISOMIKE, (Isolated Microphones) an experimental acoustic baffle system that addresses the interference of intrachannel sounds that results in compromised fidelity. Visit this page and scroll down for more details of it the system in practice.

The brainchild of Ray Kimber, founder of Kimber Kables, this unique recording system records in DSD and plays back in CD, SACD, and more (listening sessions were held throughout CES). It results in audio of the highest quality, and extremely realistic. We wouldn’t be surprised to see major NYC venues and orchestra halls taking advantage of this over time. The sampler CD alone amazed us — we can’t wait to see what else is in store for ISOMIKE.

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