Russ Button wrote:
Last week I spent a day at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show
and came away feeling pretty smug.

[snip - reviews of Aurum, MBL, & some Danish high end company]

So why am I feeling smug?

None of them sounded better than the Linkwitz Orion based
system I have at home.


That might be more a condemnation of hotel suite room acoustics than
anything else!

I spent a good deal of time at the EgglestonWorks suite (Andra II's),
the dcs suite (where they had Verity Parsifals), the Lipinski Audio
suite (L-707's) & the Naim suite down the road at the ST.Tropez T.H.E.
show (where they had Harbeth Monitor 30's) ...and I came away feeling
that none of them sounded *significantly* better than the Tannoy System
800's I have in my living room! Now, I'm not foolish enough to believe
my $1000/pair Tannoys can go toe-to-toe with these esteemed speakers
that cost 5x that. But I'll happily put my living room up against any
of those hotel suites as a critical listening room.