We found our mate Wes not far from ours, looking very professional with his new set up. Do like the logo work as well:)

He had this rather cool looking prototype of a new pre amp/dac from Viola Labs that you remotely control with an app on your iPhone.

New Hansen Audio loudspeakers in an unusual grey leather finish.

Humongous but still somehow very neat looking Redpoint turn tables in bright white. It all sounded really good.

Good stuff as usual from Venture in lovely Macassar Ebony wood finish.

Cool looking oblong shaped speakers from Vivid Audio.

The background at Jeff Rowland looked like a manifestation of sound.

The Bladelius room

with their brand new mono block amps. Good stuff as usual.

We’ll be back tomorrow, now it’s time for Stone Crabs at Joe’s

The reason I was here was for the Hi-End show that is held yearly in March. The show was at the big Ambassador Hotel downtown in Kaohsiung.

The surrounding was lovely and the weather was nice with a temperature of 25-30 degrees C, especially when compared with Sweden that had -5 degrees C and snow at the same time.

I was invited by Mr Lee from Genesis Audio, our dealer in Kaohsiung and Soundray Electronics, our distributor in Taiwan.

We were playing with our new Coltrane Momento in Walnut finish, double ASR Luna 8 amplifiers in bi-amping mode, Bladelius Gondul M LE dsic-player and Jorma Design Prime cabling. It was a fairly big room of 50 sqm and quite nice acoustics and I must say the sound was very nice.

Here are a couple of pics from the show. Sorry for the sometimes bad quality but I used my iPhone for some of the photos. I must also thank my good friend Mr Leo Yeh for lending some of his excellent photos from his forum www.my-hiend.com .

Nice flower arrangement in the lobby.

Two new co-workers in the Marten company?

Our new Getz with beautiful company.

Nice set-up with Sonus Faber, Audio Research and Playback System.

Stylish new Stello electronics.

Vivid Audio Giya together with Burmester.

Always nice sounding Delight Audio system.

Me talking about the Momento.

Dynaudio / Audio Research.

Nice Venture loudspeakers.

There was alot of records for sale. Both new and second hand.

Taiwan made Zorin Audio turntable.

That’s all from the Hi-End show in Kaohsiung.

I will post more from this trip later on.

Leif

Zine Noodles Dim Sum, a favourite for a quiet lunch in one of the neighbouring resorts to the Venetian, Palazzo Resort.

So now we’re back at home with a bit of a home coming blues, being in the States sure is a lot of fun. Here are the last few memories:

This is Audio Federation’s room at ‘The Show’, with an all Audio Note UK setup, the HiFi Show that goes on at the same time as CES in the Flamingo Resort.

Neli being dj.

Audio Federation’s second room with the new Audio Note Jinro integrated amp.

Lamm electronics & Wilson Audio Sasha back at CES.

Real nice loudspeakers from Venture.

Joseph Audio loudspeakers with Mr Joseph himself to the left.

Soulution electronics and Magico M5 loudspeakers in a really stylish almost Zen-looking room.

DLS electronics, we really like the fresh, clean look of these items.

DLS loudspeakers

Last but not least, Gallo Reference 3 loudspeakers, small and good sounding with a rather unusual design.

This is it. We look forward to the next CES already but I reckon there will be a few more HiFi Shows in between.

Thanks for now.

Lars

P.S. This is a view from The Empire State Building, proper NY by night. Hopefully we’ll be back some time soon.