Images from Saturday’s meeting:

Those of you who were able to both attend and get into the overcrowded room last month for the CES Review may remember our enthusiasm for Silverline speakers. We felt that the diminutive $1200 Prelude MTM floorstander was not only an outstanding speaker, but also the biggest bang for the buck at the CES. They sounded so huge, I thought the $30,000 Grand Bolero model was playing.

We also came to the conclusion at this year’s CES that despite the bounty of megabuck speaker systems costing over $50,000, state-of-the-art sound can be had for between $10,000 and $15,000. An exemplary representative of that group is the $12,000 Silverline Grand Bolero.

Both these speakers and their creator will be at our next SDMAG meeting less than a month from now on Saturday, March 6th from 2 – 4pm.

Alan Yun is justly enthusiastic and delightfully entertaining in the presentation of his products and this promises to be an interesting meeting.

Bill and Carla Felt, who have hosted two previous meetings, have again agreed to open their spacious home for this demonstration. I feel that a home environment is the ideal way to demonstrate loudspeakers as it reveals best what one might expect to hear in one’s own home. We are lucky that the Felt’s are willing to host such meetings, but we shouldn’t lean too much on any individual, and I hope others with large quarters will also come forward to host one meeting per year.

DATE/TIME:
Saturday, March 6th from 2 – 4pm.

DIRECTIONS:

Take I-15 to Via Rancho Pkwy. & head east. The road will curve north and change into Bear Valley Parkway.
Take a right at San Pasqual Road just before the high school. Head east exactly 1.5 miles.
Take a left onto Sunset Hills, head up the hill 300 ft. and take the left branch. Go 900 more feet to #2873 on the left.
Please park on the street and hike up the 200 ft. driveway.

Bill and Carla Felt
2873 Sunset Hills
Escondido, CA 92025.

Home ph: 760 739-8509

Cell: 760 532-2667

The CES audiophile portion was located in the fabulous Venetian Hotel again, and The High End Show moved this year to the Flamingo, so we were able to walk between the two as was the case when both events were conducted at the Alexis Park and St. Tropez. This meant we didn’t need to waste time on shuttle buses, and there was no need to brave blustery weather between rooms. Acoustically, the new hotels are vastly superior thanks to larger rooms and more robust construction.

We talked to several exhibitors after the event and they all seemed pleased with the business prospects it had presented. They said they’d be back next year. We heard that exhibitor rooms were offered at half price close to the show’s commencement. That parallels our personal hotel room expenses.

I took 422 photos of the event which were edited down to the best 168 for this meeting. Amnon made extensive notes for your edification. We hope other CES attendees will augment our presentation.

We have a new venue for this meeting. Tim Ryan, SDMAG Member and founder of Simplifi Audio, now has a demonstration facility for his products at the west end of El Cajon. He has graciously volunteered it for our meeting on Saturday, January 30th (9 days from today) from 2 – 5PM. He’s even offered some DNM interconnects for a raffle. He’s also agreed
to sell some Adam speakers at his cost (the ones we liked so much last year.) Note: This is the same building where SDMAG member Kent Fuqua performs his magic mods and repairs.

WHEN
Saturday, January 30th
2-5pm

WHERE
Simplifi Audio,
Suite 103, 1279 W. Main St.
El Cajon, CA 92020

DIRECTIONS – HEADING EAST FROM SAN DIEGO TOWARD EL CAJON
Take 8 East toward El Cajon
Take the Main street exit
Turn left at the light at the bottom of the off-ramp onto Main St.
Fourth building on the left after the AM/PM garage

DIRECTIONS – HEADING WEST FROM EL CAJON TOWARD SAN DIEGO
Take 8 WEST toward El Cajon
Take the Main street exit
Turn right at the lite at the bottom of the off-ramp onto Main St.
Fourth building on the left after the AM/PM garage

There is plenty of parking ’round the back…
please DO NOT PARK IN THE AM/PM GARAGE LOT.

Look forward to seeing you.
Jan