Dahlquist's Ian Brown holds a late prototype of his company's newest speaker, the QX7 ($600/pair). Dahlquist designs and builds all of its drivers.

The ever-animated Gilbert Yeung demonstrates his BC86 Power Line Pillow ($110), which was highly effective at removing power-line noise even under show conditions.

Manufacturer and distributor respectively, Greg Hovsepian (left) and Terry Rosen pose with some DH Labs products.

Industry veterans and good buds Tyll Hertsens (left) of Headroom and cable designer Chris Sommovigo, who was showing his new Stereovox line of cables.

Monarchy's C.C. Poon displays his DIP Upsampler ($299), which can upsample a digital signal up to 24 bits and 96kHz. It can also output a 48kHz signal, so you can use it along with non-24/96 DACs and still get upsampling benefits.

Marc Mickelson (right) tries his best to persuade former SoundStager and "Paradise" columnist Jim Saxon to end his audio-writing retirement.

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Alan Yun of Silverline Audio poses with his diminutive SR11 speaker ($1499/pair) in briarwood finish.

A fixture of the CES, Sony's press conference at the Las Vegas Convention center was packed., even though Sony's new-product offerings included no new audio products and only a couple for home theater.