Just a quick note from CES - Had two very nice tape related experiences last night.
The first was that Paul and I were honored to be invited to a lovely cocktail party at the Mirage thanks to Nagra dealer (and just maybe the nicest guy in the business), Maier Shadi of The Audio Salon in Beverly Hills. The party was put on by Nagra in celebration of their 60 years in the audio business. Wonderful people, an elegant spread, an amazing collection of Montreaux Jazz Festival highlights playing on a big screen, and of course exquisite gear including the lovely new 300B amps and an absolutely MINT IV-S and SNST-R that had been shipped over from the Nagra museum.
The second highlight was Philip O'Hanlon's (On a Higher Note) party at the Mirage, which is always a gas. Here I had the opportunity to meet Arian Jansen, a true open reel soul brother and just a super nice guy. He's cooking up some tasty new Revox ideas, that I will let him tell you about. And I also had the opportunity to meet Head-Fi's founder Jude, another super guy to get to know, and one who seems to have a great sense of where this ever-changing audio industry is heading. Plus he likes the same headphones I do. Probably his only audio-related act of questionable judgment last night was deciding to take my picture to post in his blog on head-fi...