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Annual AES show awards
Best New Product In Show: The AD1 DSD converter from Grimm Audio. Certainly one of the more carefully designed A/D converters I have seen in a while, and the simplicity of the DSD process makes it possible to implement with op-amps and comparators rather than relying on monolithic converter chips. Best Free Thing At Show: In spite of wonderful free connectors from the Amphenol booth and a variety of fine coffee products, the best actual free thing at the show this year was the homemade wine from Robert Rich at the Millennia Media booth. It was not the most amazing wine of all time, but it was probably the best homemade wine I have had, and it certainly beat out many of the commercial products at the various manufacturers' parties. It was well balanced and just oaked enough. Not much of a finish, but still perfectly reasonable. Best Panel At Show: The student recording competition gave students from around the world a chance to have their recordings evaluated by a panel of experts, but also for the audience to hear those recording and the experts' commentary. The awards presented were only a small part of what made this competition a very enjoyable experience to watch. If only the playback system were a little bit better, it could have been my absolute favorite part of the show. Best Sound In Show: Genelec, of all folks. I was really quite pleased at the new Genelec monitors that are replacing the 103x series speakers. Very smooth top end, with detail that isn't spitty, and without the weird pipe organ resonances in some of their older speakers. Their demo sounded quite remarkably good. Loudest Sound In Show: Apple Computers, whose demos could be heard even upstairs in the lobby. Really surprising that these folks managed to outdo some extremely loud competition. Worst Sound in Show: Climax Teknologies makes a line of speakers that look like very classy high end home products, but sound like boxes filled randomly with the cheapest possible drivers with no thought given to actual system response. A dozen of them playing at the same time also leads to amazing comb filtering effects. I'm not sure why these guys picked the AES show of all places to show this equipment; briefly I had a flashback of being in Las Vegas at a CES, it was so traumatic. Best New Gadget That's Really Old: The ADT V700 module system. This looks like a cross between a mastering console and the old SCAMP racks. All of the standard mastering processor modules are available, but also there are some wierd ones like noise gates and ring modulators. And hey, you can even put mike preamp modules in there. Best Paper In Show: Alexander Voshivillo's _Comparative Analysis of Nonlinear Distortion in Compression Drivers and Horns_, a talk surveying the various distortion modes in horn speakers and compression drivers, with good quantitative models for each one of them. Nothing too innovative, but a good summary of recent research and a model that puts various distortion modes together in one place. Preprint 6192. Worst Paper In Show: Tsakiris Vassilis and Orinos Chris' _Optimum Loudspeaker System with Subwoofer and Digital Equalization_. What makes this a bad paper is that it starts out asking the wrong question. They ask if tonal changes caused by raising the crossover frequency on consumer subwoofers from 80 Hz to 120 Hz can be compensated for using DSP. And, they do a good job of doing so, but tonal response is one of the least important issues. They ignore impulse response completely, and they do nothing to look at the severe damage in imaging by using a mono subwoofer crossed at 80 Hz, let alone at 120 Hz. Preprint 6266. Most Amusing Moment In Show: Watching the Sennheiser folks being escorted out of the Audio-Technica party. Best Quote At Show: "Well, that's what killed DSD for Sony." Best Costumes: Bill Putnam and EveAnna Manley. Worst Theft At Show: Sunday night after the end of the convention, an SUV rented by Telefunken NA was broken into at the Fifth and Mission garage. Four demo Telefunken microphones were stolen, along with approximately 125 Aloha shirts and other promotional materials. All of these mikes had very low serial numbers and should be easy to identify. Best Butt In Show: Kurt Albershardt of Paragon Communications (boy butt) and Jamey D'Amato of Sound Toys (girl butt). Press Coup of the Year: Bill Whitlock managed to get basically the same article with the same illustrations into Live Sound and Radio World EE Extra, both the month of the show, with both magazines available on the show floor. Most Cleavage In Show: Walter Storyk Design Group. In spite of tattoos that could have used some touchup work, the sheer amount of cleavage displayed in this booth on the part of a number of young women was impressive and made it very hard to concentrate on the audio products being shown there. -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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Most Cleavage In Show: ...
Yeah, I was amazed at so many lovely women at AES this year... Maybe I'm just getting to be a horny old man... : ) -- Steven Sena XS Sound Recording www.xssound.com "Scott Dorsey" wrote in message ... Best New Product In Show: The AD1 DSD converter from Grimm Audio. Certainly one of the more carefully designed A/D converters I have seen in a while, and the simplicity of the DSD process makes it possible to implement with op-amps and comparators rather than relying on monolithic converter chips. Best Free Thing At Show: In spite of wonderful free connectors from the Amphenol booth and a variety of fine coffee products, the best actual free thing at the show this year was the homemade wine from Robert Rich at the Millennia Media booth. It was not the most amazing wine of all time, but it was probably the best homemade wine I have had, and it certainly beat out many of the commercial products at the various manufacturers' parties. It was well balanced and just oaked enough. Not much of a finish, but still perfectly reasonable. Best Panel At Show: The student recording competition gave students from around the world a chance to have their recordings evaluated by a panel of experts, but also for the audience to hear those recording and the experts' commentary. The awards presented were only a small part of what made this competition a very enjoyable experience to watch. If only the playback system were a little bit better, it could have been my absolute favorite part of the show. Best Sound In Show: Genelec, of all folks. I was really quite pleased at the new Genelec monitors that are replacing the 103x series speakers. Very smooth top end, with detail that isn't spitty, and without the weird pipe organ resonances in some of their older speakers. Their demo sounded quite remarkably good. Loudest Sound In Show: Apple Computers, whose demos could be heard even upstairs in the lobby. Really surprising that these folks managed to outdo some extremely loud competition. Worst Sound in Show: Climax Teknologies makes a line of speakers that look like very classy high end home products, but sound like boxes filled randomly with the cheapest possible drivers with no thought given to actual system response. A dozen of them playing at the same time also leads to amazing comb filtering effects. I'm not sure why these guys picked the AES show of all places to show this equipment; briefly I had a flashback of being in Las Vegas at a CES, it was so traumatic. Best New Gadget That's Really Old: The ADT V700 module system. This looks like a cross between a mastering console and the old SCAMP racks. All of the standard mastering processor modules are available, but also there are some wierd ones like noise gates and ring modulators. And hey, you can even put mike preamp modules in there. Best Paper In Show: Alexander Voshivillo's _Comparative Analysis of Nonlinear Distortion in Compression Drivers and Horns_, a talk surveying the various distortion modes in horn speakers and compression drivers, with good quantitative models for each one of them. Nothing too innovative, but a good summary of recent research and a model that puts various distortion modes together in one place. Preprint 6192. Worst Paper In Show: Tsakiris Vassilis and Orinos Chris' _Optimum Loudspeaker System with Subwoofer and Digital Equalization_. What makes this a bad paper is that it starts out asking the wrong question. They ask if tonal changes caused by raising the crossover frequency on consumer subwoofers from 80 Hz to 120 Hz can be compensated for using DSP. And, they do a good job of doing so, but tonal response is one of the least important issues. They ignore impulse response completely, and they do nothing to look at the severe damage in imaging by using a mono subwoofer crossed at 80 Hz, let alone at 120 Hz. Preprint 6266. Most Amusing Moment In Show: Watching the Sennheiser folks being escorted out of the Audio-Technica party. Best Quote At Show: "Well, that's what killed DSD for Sony." Best Costumes: Bill Putnam and EveAnna Manley. Worst Theft At Show: Sunday night after the end of the convention, an SUV rented by Telefunken NA was broken into at the Fifth and Mission garage. Four demo Telefunken microphones were stolen, along with approximately 125 Aloha shirts and other promotional materials. All of these mikes had very low serial numbers and should be easy to identify. Best Butt In Show: Kurt Albershardt of Paragon Communications (boy butt) and Jamey D'Amato of Sound Toys (girl butt). Press Coup of the Year: Bill Whitlock managed to get basically the same article with the same illustrations into Live Sound and Radio World EE Extra, both the month of the show, with both magazines available on the show floor. Most Cleavage In Show: Walter Storyk Design Group. In spite of tattoos that could have used some touchup work, the sheer amount of cleavage displayed in this booth on the part of a number of young women was impressive and made it very hard to concentrate on the audio products being shown there. -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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Most Cleavage In Show: ...
Yeah, I was amazed at so many lovely women at AES this year... Maybe I'm just getting to be a horny old man... : ) -- Steven Sena XS Sound Recording www.xssound.com "Scott Dorsey" wrote in message ... Best New Product In Show: The AD1 DSD converter from Grimm Audio. Certainly one of the more carefully designed A/D converters I have seen in a while, and the simplicity of the DSD process makes it possible to implement with op-amps and comparators rather than relying on monolithic converter chips. Best Free Thing At Show: In spite of wonderful free connectors from the Amphenol booth and a variety of fine coffee products, the best actual free thing at the show this year was the homemade wine from Robert Rich at the Millennia Media booth. It was not the most amazing wine of all time, but it was probably the best homemade wine I have had, and it certainly beat out many of the commercial products at the various manufacturers' parties. It was well balanced and just oaked enough. Not much of a finish, but still perfectly reasonable. Best Panel At Show: The student recording competition gave students from around the world a chance to have their recordings evaluated by a panel of experts, but also for the audience to hear those recording and the experts' commentary. The awards presented were only a small part of what made this competition a very enjoyable experience to watch. If only the playback system were a little bit better, it could have been my absolute favorite part of the show. Best Sound In Show: Genelec, of all folks. I was really quite pleased at the new Genelec monitors that are replacing the 103x series speakers. Very smooth top end, with detail that isn't spitty, and without the weird pipe organ resonances in some of their older speakers. Their demo sounded quite remarkably good. Loudest Sound In Show: Apple Computers, whose demos could be heard even upstairs in the lobby. Really surprising that these folks managed to outdo some extremely loud competition. Worst Sound in Show: Climax Teknologies makes a line of speakers that look like very classy high end home products, but sound like boxes filled randomly with the cheapest possible drivers with no thought given to actual system response. A dozen of them playing at the same time also leads to amazing comb filtering effects. I'm not sure why these guys picked the AES show of all places to show this equipment; briefly I had a flashback of being in Las Vegas at a CES, it was so traumatic. Best New Gadget That's Really Old: The ADT V700 module system. This looks like a cross between a mastering console and the old SCAMP racks. All of the standard mastering processor modules are available, but also there are some wierd ones like noise gates and ring modulators. And hey, you can even put mike preamp modules in there. Best Paper In Show: Alexander Voshivillo's _Comparative Analysis of Nonlinear Distortion in Compression Drivers and Horns_, a talk surveying the various distortion modes in horn speakers and compression drivers, with good quantitative models for each one of them. Nothing too innovative, but a good summary of recent research and a model that puts various distortion modes together in one place. Preprint 6192. Worst Paper In Show: Tsakiris Vassilis and Orinos Chris' _Optimum Loudspeaker System with Subwoofer and Digital Equalization_. What makes this a bad paper is that it starts out asking the wrong question. They ask if tonal changes caused by raising the crossover frequency on consumer subwoofers from 80 Hz to 120 Hz can be compensated for using DSP. And, they do a good job of doing so, but tonal response is one of the least important issues. They ignore impulse response completely, and they do nothing to look at the severe damage in imaging by using a mono subwoofer crossed at 80 Hz, let alone at 120 Hz. Preprint 6266. Most Amusing Moment In Show: Watching the Sennheiser folks being escorted out of the Audio-Technica party. Best Quote At Show: "Well, that's what killed DSD for Sony." Best Costumes: Bill Putnam and EveAnna Manley. Worst Theft At Show: Sunday night after the end of the convention, an SUV rented by Telefunken NA was broken into at the Fifth and Mission garage. Four demo Telefunken microphones were stolen, along with approximately 125 Aloha shirts and other promotional materials. All of these mikes had very low serial numbers and should be easy to identify. Best Butt In Show: Kurt Albershardt of Paragon Communications (boy butt) and Jamey D'Amato of Sound Toys (girl butt). Press Coup of the Year: Bill Whitlock managed to get basically the same article with the same illustrations into Live Sound and Radio World EE Extra, both the month of the show, with both magazines available on the show floor. Most Cleavage In Show: Walter Storyk Design Group. In spite of tattoos that could have used some touchup work, the sheer amount of cleavage displayed in this booth on the part of a number of young women was impressive and made it very hard to concentrate on the audio products being shown there. -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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Karl Winkler wrote:
(Scott Dorsey) wrote in message ... Best Butt In Show: Kurt Albershardt of Paragon Communications (boy butt) and Jamey D'Amato of Sound Toys (girl butt). I just *knew* I should have worn tighter pants... Hey--I haven't worn tight pants in maybe 25 years. More interestingly, I haven't used the name Paragon since 1994 or so--long before I met Dorsey. |
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Karl Winkler wrote:
(Scott Dorsey) wrote in message ... Best Butt In Show: Kurt Albershardt of Paragon Communications (boy butt) and Jamey D'Amato of Sound Toys (girl butt). I just *knew* I should have worn tighter pants... Hey--I haven't worn tight pants in maybe 25 years. More interestingly, I haven't used the name Paragon since 1994 or so--long before I met Dorsey. |
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In article ,
Kurt Albershardt wrote: Karl Winkler wrote: (Scott Dorsey) wrote in message ... Best Butt In Show: Kurt Albershardt of Paragon Communications (boy butt) and Jamey D'Amato of Sound Toys (girl butt). I just *knew* I should have worn tighter pants... Hey--I haven't worn tight pants in maybe 25 years. Tight enough. Who do you think nominated you? As for his being up to date on your company name... well I'm not responsible for that. It is true that most people there were wearing butt-obscuring jackets, had plumber's butt, had no butt, had enormous butts or didn't wear flattering pants. --Chak More interestingly, I haven't used the name Paragon since 1994 or so--long before I met Dorsey. |
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Kurt Albershardt wrote: Karl Winkler wrote: (Scott Dorsey) wrote in message ... Best Butt In Show: Kurt Albershardt of Paragon Communications (boy butt) and Jamey D'Amato of Sound Toys (girl butt). I just *knew* I should have worn tighter pants... Hey--I haven't worn tight pants in maybe 25 years. Tight enough. Who do you think nominated you? As for his being up to date on your company name... well I'm not responsible for that. It is true that most people there were wearing butt-obscuring jackets, had plumber's butt, had no butt, had enormous butts or didn't wear flattering pants. --Chak More interestingly, I haven't used the name Paragon since 1994 or so--long before I met Dorsey. |
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good review. too bad about the mics. it's amazing how things get
stolen out of vehicles here a lot. it's almost as if people follow people. whoever it was must have thought those shirts had mics in them. look for the shirts and maybe it'll lead to the mics. nobody wears hawaiian shirts here. mahalo. Worst Theft At Show: Sunday night after the end of the convention, an SUV rented by Telefunken NA was broken into at the Fifth and Mission garage. Four demo Telefunken microphones were stolen, along with approximately 125 Aloha shirts and other promotional materials. All of these mikes had very low serial numbers and should be easy to identify. |
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good review. too bad about the mics. it's amazing how things get
stolen out of vehicles here a lot. it's almost as if people follow people. whoever it was must have thought those shirts had mics in them. look for the shirts and maybe it'll lead to the mics. nobody wears hawaiian shirts here. mahalo. Worst Theft At Show: Sunday night after the end of the convention, an SUV rented by Telefunken NA was broken into at the Fifth and Mission garage. Four demo Telefunken microphones were stolen, along with approximately 125 Aloha shirts and other promotional materials. All of these mikes had very low serial numbers and should be easy to identify. |
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Scott Dorsey wrote:
Most Cleavage In Show: Walter Storyk Design Group. In spite of tattoos that could have used some touchup work, the sheer amount of cleavage displayed in this booth on the part of a number of young women was impressive and made it very hard to concentrate on the audio products being shown there. Which were what, voluminous acoustic couches? "With extra extra absorption for those really sloppy low low notes!" -- ha |
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Scott Dorsey wrote:
Most Cleavage In Show: Walter Storyk Design Group. In spite of tattoos that could have used some touchup work, the sheer amount of cleavage displayed in this booth on the part of a number of young women was impressive and made it very hard to concentrate on the audio products being shown there. Which were what, voluminous acoustic couches? "With extra extra absorption for those really sloppy low low notes!" -- ha |
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In article znr1100656529k@trad, Mike Rivers wrote:
In article writes: It is true that most people there were wearing butt-obscuring jackets, had plumber's butt, had no butt, had enormous butts or didn't wear flattering pants. It's in my old time music genes. Wearing a corduroy jacket?! --Chak -- I'm really Mike Rivers ) However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over, lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo |
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In article znr1100656529k@trad, Mike Rivers wrote:
In article writes: It is true that most people there were wearing butt-obscuring jackets, had plumber's butt, had no butt, had enormous butts or didn't wear flattering pants. It's in my old time music genes. Wearing a corduroy jacket?! --Chak -- I'm really Mike Rivers ) However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over, lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo |
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