All,
We had an exciting show in Vegas (T.H.E. in the Flamingo). It had a more laid-back feel to it than I remember a couple of years back exhibiting at the Venetian (CES). We partnered with Fidelis A/V (importers of Harbeth) and the new Harbeth 30.1 monitors sounded glorious with the new Bellina Pro dac and Signature 16 (and Lilianas)!
I found some coverage already:
http://www.stereophile.com/content/red-wine-audios-renaissance-edition (thanks to Stephen Mejias and Jason Victor Serinus)
This one was also a surprise!
http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/ces-2013-show-report-tube-gear/ (Scoll down to Dick Olsher's Best of Show)
Best Sound (for the lowest price): Rosso Fiorentino’s Certaldo loudspeakers ($5,995/pr) driven by Tri-Art Audio electronics and the Harbeth monitor 30.1 loudspeakers ($5,990/pr) driven by Red Wine Audio’s battery-powered electronics.
It was a pleasure to meet Dick Olsher in person and he really took a liking to the Signature 16 - so much that I'll soon be sending him one for review!
Since our website has been updated with our new Renaissance Edition line-up, you might have noticed that our new Bellina Pro
offers Async, Integer-Mode USB (up to 24/192) - as well as our favorite for Redbook - the 16-bit R-2R NOS dac. Michael Lavorgna
of Audiostream.com picked up on this here:
http://www.audiostream.com/content/red-wine-audio-bellina-pro-dacAs well as Chris Connaker of computeraudiophile:
http://www.computeraudiophile.com/content/500-sights-and-sounds-ces-2013/Other members of the press like Scot Hull of Partimeaudiophile.com, Jeff Dorgay of Tone Audio, John Atkinson of Stereophile, Steve Lefkowicz of Positive Feedback, and others stopped in to say hi and have a listen.
To
everyone who visited us (especially those who brought some really good music!) - THANK YOU! This is what makes the show as always, and I was very thankful when someone who was listening said "it's nice to be able to sit here and just enjoy the music and not have to be in 'critical mode' when listening to this system." It really was a treat - maybe our best sounding exhibit room so far for me, since 2005.
Thanks to Walter and Dwight of Fidelis AV for sharing the room with me, and joining us for for The Beatles Love (Cirque du Soleil) show - that was an amazing show. I especially loved the presentation for "A Day in the Life" - wow!
So now it's catch-up time and I'm hammering out emails and thanks for all your patience with that. I also caught a virus (probably on the plane) and it's kicking my butt, so I'm a little slower than usual right now.
I'll be posting more about the new line-up soon!
Vinnie
BTW - we had those Harbeth P3ESR's (shown in the distance on those silly plastic stands for display) running on the last day - they sounded awesome for their tiny size, but being a sealed-box and 83dB efficient, we had to use the Lilianas to really get them to shine!
