We would’ve loved to go to the opera here in Munich, it’s supposed to be brilliant but there’s not enough time for that unfortunately. Maybe next time.

Across the square from the Munich Opera House there’s a proper old skool German Restaurant called Spatenhaus. They serve delicious German classics such as suckling pig, sausages, sauerkraut and white asparagus with Sauce Hollandaise. It would be impossible to leave the place hungry, as the portions are very German as well:) Our friends from China enjoyed as much as we did I think.

From left to right, Jörgen’s hand, our distributor in Taiwan – Anton Chang, Anders, our production guy, Jorma Koski, Leif, Mr Wu  – our distributor in China, Mr Lee Ming, Anton’s father and distributor in Taiwan and Leo Yeh, who has the very acclaimed online hifi magazine, my-hiend.com.

That was yesterday and we did survive the evening’s shenanigans so this morning we had a look at these few rooms.

This is Genelec’s very Scandinavian looking room, a nicely stylish space with very good sounding active monitor speakers.

This is where their factory is located. If I were to ever work at a factory I would love for it to be there.

Fridge sized horn speakers from Acapella. Big and impressive sounding.

Here is beautiful The Lars tube amplifiers together with the rather sizable and interesting looking horn speakers from Absolue Creations.

This room had a really nice and calm feel to it as well as great sounds.

The Wilson Audio room had their only light source from the glass roof which made for a really nice and mellow look.

They are using Emm Labs CD source.

Voxativ monolithical speakers. Rather impressive.

Today’s fave record has been ‘We are the Robots’ with Kraftwerk. Every time our room is empty we put this on really loudly and soon enough the room is starting to fill up again:) It sounds awesome. Very suitable when in Germany.

Auf wiedersehen.

Lars

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.