Mirage's new flagship OM-1 speaker was on
static display, as it was at the CES in January. Look for full production to commence
later this year. The two-piece speaker has a separate fully powered subwoofer section
(with four amplifiers, each driving one of its four drivers, all in their own
sub-enclosures) and will retail for $25,000/pair.
The Audiomeca Enkianthus DAC ($5495) uses the
same 32/192, floating-point technology as the company's Mephisto II CD player, which is
pictured in our first ShowStoppers series.
Linn showed the AV5103 System Controller
($11,000 CDN), which does DTS and Dolby Digital decoding...
and the new Sismik subwoofer ($2600 CDN).
Canadian distributor Europroducts Marketing,
Ltd. displayed an array of Epos and Visonik speakers. From the left to right are the Epos
M15 ($1899 CDN/pair), Visonik E35211 ($699 CDN/pair), Epos M12 ($1399 CDN/pair), Visonik
E602 ($1499 CDN/pair), Visonik Concept 5 ($3999 CDN/pair), and Visonik Concept 7 ($5999
CDN/pair).
One of Doug Schneider's favorite speakers, the
JMlab Micro Utopia is also available in an ebony finish for a retail price of $4500
(excluding stands).
Front, inside and back shots of Sony's
DVP-9000ES ($1500) DVD/CD/SACD player. The DVP-9000ES was in use in a number of rooms.
Audio Tekne's line of audio cables include a
power cord (left, $825/1.5-meter length), speaker cables ($2045/three-meter pair), and
interconnects (not shown, $825/meter pair).
Gilbert Yeung of Blue Circle Audio shows his
company's new BC1.0 spiked footer ($190/set of three). Yeung calls the material that the
footers are made of "unobtainium," which translates from Latin as "none of
your business."
