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CES 2023 Show Report – by Carlo Lo Raso

CES 2023 Show Report, Las Vegas, Nevada, January 5 – January 8

CES 2023 Coverage and Discussion

Happy New Year Secrets readers!

Well as usual the first main show of the year is CES in Las Vegas. This year it runs from January 5^th to the 8^th and while we will not be at the show covering it in person, we will be monitoring events and sharing some specific coverage with you here on this page. We will have some video interviews that we’ve recorded with various manufacturers, both before and during CES that we will feature right here, so keep checking in both during and after the show for the latest additions as we post them. All will be introducing new products or making significant announcements that we want to bring to you as soon as we can. So, sit back, relax, grab a beverage of choice and enjoy the updates as they come in.

All the best!

Carlo Lo Raso

Editor-In-Chief

SVS Pre-CEDIA Chat.

I had a chance before the show to chat with Gary Yacoubian (CEO) and Nicholas Brown (VP, Marketing) from SVS to discuss what they will be showing off at CES this year.

CES Video interview with DIRAC

In this video, I talk with Nilo Ericsson (Product Lead, Home and PRO Audio, and Headphones) about the announcement of DIRAC ART (Active Room Treatment). The company’s latest evolution of room correction.

CES Video interview with HARMAN Luxury Audio

In the video below, I talk with Jim Garrett (Sr. Director, Product Strategy & Planning) about the announcement of several new products during their “HARMAN Explore” event.

FOCAL NAIM America.

FOCAL NAIM America had new product announcements for both brands that they were excited to share with us. Particularly the new NAIM Classic 200 series components and the new FOCAL Vestia line of loudspeakers.

DIRAC, Perlisten, Storm Audio Demo.

In demonstrating their new “Active Room Treatment” at CES 2023, DIRAC partnered with Perlisten, and Storm Audio to create what many described as an incredibly immersive experience. In this video, the reps from all 3 brands sit down and tell us about it.

Carlo Lo Raso

A native of Toronto Canada, Carlo's interest in audio began at a young age when, unbeknownst to his mother, he started taking apart her numerous transistor radios to see how they worked. This desire for “knowledge through deconstruction” continued through to the family’s 8-track tape player, turntable, headphones, and speakers. Carlo subsequently spent a lot of time in his room. Toronto was a fertile ground for Hi-Fi in the 1970s and 80s and Carlo spent much of his wayward youth hanging out in downtown Toronto stereo shops, listening to all manner of gear and picking the brains of the various store owners. Through that formative experience, Carlo developed an appreciation for good music and good sound reproduction. Also, as a budding graphic artist, the aesthetic aspects of a given piece of gear became increasingly of interest to his eyes. It was at about that time as well that Carlo began purchasing “Audio Magazine” on a regular basis and came to appreciate, in particular, the writing and reviewing of the late Leonard Feldman. Later on, he was also influenced by the writing and observations of the staff at Sound and Vision Canada, helmed at the time by Alan Loft. Carlo graduated from Sheridan College with a degree in Classical Animation and was subsequently employed by Walt Disney Consumer Products for 10 years as a Character Artist and Art Director. Having become disenchanted with Los Angeles, he then decided to strike out on his own. Carlo started his own company and has been freelancing artwork, from his home studio, primarily for the toy and publishing industries since 2001. In 2013, on a bit of a lark, Carlo answered a “Call for Writers” ad from an AV website that he had been regularly reading for about 5 years called Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity. He had come to appreciate the website’s combination of subjective impressions along with the objective bench-testing available in several of the reviews. The “B-Team” must have been working that day because by some miracle he was hired as a writer and his first review for the site was published early in 2014. Carlo has been continually writing, editing, traveling, listening, and learning on the company’s behalf ever since. Carlo currently lives in Granville, Ohio with his wife, two sons, and a very old, but chill dachshund.