All prices are in US dollars unless otherwise noted.

When I began my journey to find the coolest products and niftiest gadgets, I guessed that the quest would take me one day. Wrong. So I'm devoting an entire second day of coverage to feature some of these very interesting products that I found walking throughout the Festival.

If you're like me and you have far too many CDs in your collection, then you too are likely to have storage problems for all your discs. Certainly there are ways around this -- racks, for example -- but sometimes these things aren't all that good-looking. This innovative coffee table from La Boissellerie ($1000 CDN) allows you to put your CD collection out of sight and out of mind in an attractive and easy way. Besides the convenience of being able to tuck your discs away so they're not seen, if you place this table within arm's reach of your listening chair, your CDs will still be close by. I know that in my house I have a 27-foot walk to the CD storage rack. The workmanship is impeccable too, with finely inlaid wood. La Boissellerie had other storage products on display that were equally attractive and ingenious.

Home theater just keeps getting wilder and wilder. In fact, I don't think it will be too long until the ultra-tweak element comes to fruition in that market like it has in the two-channel-audio market. German Physiks, makers of some very unique-looking stereo loudspeakers, have introduced their equally unique center-channel speaker priced at $3600. The first thing that came to my mind was, "Where the heck do you place it?" Then I realized that anyone who goes to the lengths necessary to accommodate the German Physiks stereo speakers probably has the means (i.e., a proper budget for a proper room) to figure what to do with this speaker too. One thing is for certain: It will certainly make for a fine conversation piece.

Looking at all the great equipment at the show can be a little depressing if you aren't able to buy anything right then. Dreaming is fun, but being able to buy something is a whole lot better. Well, there's nothing like a little bit of audiophile tweaking to breathe some new life into an old system, particularly if it is affordably priced too. Nordost, makers of those interesting-looking flat cables, has been selling their anti-static ECO 3 spray for years. According to the manufacturer, ECO 3 should be sprayed onto interconnects, speaker wire and power cords to reduce built-up static electricity. The result is reportedly improved sound that can be heard through a lowering of the noise floor. Some people say you can use it on CDs too. The price? Pretty reasonable at $39.95.

Despite the abundance of new products, I was happy to see that good old vinyl made it through the change of millennium. Truth be told, it's a market that will likely never go away for a variety of reasons, including the fact that some music may never see the light of day on any digital format (CD, DVD-A, SACD or what have you) and because some people think that vinyl still sounds better than all those formats combined. Technology may march on, but it doesn't necessarily improve upon the old. So many companies displayed analog products, including this classic turntable shown above right from Roksan of England (makers of the Caspian and Kandy series of audio electronics). The Xerxes X is the latest incarnation of this turntable that was originally introduced to the market back in 1985.

That's all for this year!