CES 2018: Lamm, Vandersteen, VTL | Stereophile 

This is excellent! Thank you very much for taking the time to produce this. 👍

LAMM electronics , pure class A tube heaven , I love charma speakers even their feet. Great system .

Fremer's comments about 10 year old obsolete tech and high end audio gear being potential heirloom items was spot on. My 20+ year old Vandy model 2's still sound great.

MR.John Atkinson very happy new year Thanks for sharing all the exhibition and good luck with your format

VTL speaks for it self, Fabulous kit.

Замечательная акустика Вандерстин 2СЕ!

vtl and gibbon speakers like 096 is a great match also

I want to hear Back Sabbath blasted through that squillion dollar system not some barber shop quartet

there are easily two ways to view what mr. fremer said about obsoelescence and high end audio. one recognizes the timeless value of the gear, as mr. fremer would. the other would question the NEED for an annual show if there's nothing, really, new to see and get.

29th to 35th floor = That's why it is called high-end. On the low end first floor scale - Singing with MJ on a slot machine. Thanks

Thoroughly enjoyed the vid. Thank You. Hang on in there CES. Hope it works out.

I really enjoyed this video!!! I just had to subscribe after watching this!!! I look forward to watching more videos!!! ☮️🖖🏽

500,000 I’d love to hear that , it would need to be unbelievable

The report of my death was an exaggeration (Mark Twain). The CES will no doubt fade away for the audiophiles, but other venues have and will replace it. From what I have seen, this crazy hunt for audio nirvana is getting stronger every day. We are seeing truly amazing technological improvements on an almost daily basis; this is the golden age for the audiophile.

Great video. Thanks!

Mikey - the same thing happened to me in vegas - they make the slot machines video games you cannot understand. And I grew up in the 80s

The high-end is an excuse for high price. Yes, some innovation is to be had, but the greed of human nature is fostered and nurtured. We love things more than music...

Vandersteen definitely sounded best for voices. The Choral was quite natural with good definition and good placement and sizing of the voices.

Interesting report. Have to say though that rooms visited would be highly intimidating to most people. Perhaps these are geared more to distributors. In any event, not hard to see why good audio is dying at these shows. Would love to see these companies display more real-world systems in the under $5k range. Young people simply aren’t going to spend more than about $5k for a set of speakers, amplifier and digital or analog front end. Would also love to see Stereophile put together reviews of complete budget systems rather than the one-off component reviews that are usually inserted into systems well beyond the price range of said component. Michael made an excellent point about fact that good audio components will last for decades, compared to the digital and electronic junk that makes up most of CES.

My Beyerdynamic DT770 pro Headphones go down to 5Hz (at 10 my hearing stops) for 150€ :-)

that was real interesting.

What gets me about all the hi-end audio demos is they play tracks "specially mastered" I think for demos. They never play music most people would be listening to. Groups like Aerosmith. The Stones...music that isn't "audiophile" and mastered on SACD, 24-bit...etc. :)

Nice vlog. But $500k systems? Not for the regular guy. That's why the shows are dying?

What is John wearing in his ears whilst auditioning...and wouldn’t it/they adversely affect the sound?

you MUST get rid of the back of head shots. You must! Everything else is wonderful!

A suggestion: When you add comments in a video (9:25) put them in the middle or upper parts of the viewing area. I noticed that when I paused the video to read your note (much appreciated!) the video controls blocks the text so I can't read it. Thanks for taking the time to do these informative reports.

do people really spend this much money on audio equipment?

Those were trump cables. And was that a plant misting machine in vtl ?

Mr. Fremer and FHaC (Fastest Hair at CES)! Must be all those years of XLF sound waves.

It's like been there!

An English man in... Las Vegas 😉 John, you left your old and boring European country many years ago to go to live to the new world in a country so vast and full of picturesque places as USA. You lived in Santa Fe, one of the hottest places there, so different from your homeland, then to NYC. It's fascinating! What do your relatives say to you? Those that didn't cross the pond, I mean. That you are crazy or they envy you? It's just my curiosity 😄

Is he using hearing aids to evaluate the audio systems?

Mike F. is always a blast, JA told it like it was, not the best sound as expected. BTW, nice cough @22:45

whats with audiophiles and soft music?

Those Sennheiser Ambeo binaural headphones work a treat, What are you using to record the track? Apple device or a stereo recorder handheld?

Shows half million dollar setup and then guys talking about attendance and interested being at an all time low - nah, get out? Interesting video nonetheless.

Kharma speakers are the biggest rippoff in audio possibly surpassing Wislon. Wanna pay ten times what it's worth in sound quality? Buy from this company.

Michael, loved your sung intro; you are brilliant!!! Can’t you persuade John A to sing a long too!

8:38

The computer and smartphone industry is taking the lionshare of the electronic market...so sad to hear we are diminishing every year...so sad. Nothing stands still in our World

All that just to play a record

C E S not as popular as it used to be my be they should drop there prices so that more of the public can afford high end HI FI.

Pushing over priced audio "jewelry" to line your pockets and keep your trade magazines afloat has consequences. To the average consumer who attends CES, a $20,000 amp ,$50,000 pair of speakers, $5000 electricity "conditioners", or $10.,000 set of cables represent an insulting joke. You all painted yourselves into an air tight box by focusing almost exclusively on this crap. It now looks like the box's oxygen is starting to run out. Soon all the "veils have been lifted" hot gas hyperbole will begin to choke on the building carbon dioxide.

Move your big head

20:00 lol

Russian cabling. I wouldn't buy nothing from those guys.

This guy is a fool doesn’t know anything about what he’s selling,Atkinson impressed by money and cost,looking at most of these people it shows they don’t take care of themselves and sit on the couch listening too much

A bunch of old people listening to weird music on ridiculously expensive gear and believing in power conditioners.

Ladies and gentlemen,there you have it, US$15,000 for Scanspeak speakers and $3000 extra for Automotive paint,which just absolute bullshit,all flat edges no curves easiest paint job ever,power conditioner for each channel,amp for each driver yadda,yadda wank,wank.

Once all the old guys die off, this cottage industry of ultra-expensive rip-off hi-fi is gone.

poveretti...

I was once into this idiotic hobby...cut off electricity and its a heap of plastic and metal junk

Audiofilia to nie pasja tylko obsesja i choroba psychiczna

This is all pretentious nonsense for the rich plain and simple why not review equipment for the masses rather than the elite. These presenter's also live in cuckoo land, what is the point of these videos ?? quarter of a million system get real lol. for rich Eccentrics. the old guy needing a haircut is talking away as if he is some professor of hi fi so funny really.