We would like thank every one who came to see us at the the 2006 CES.   Everything we shipped arrived on time, in one piece and it all worked.  Even the weather was on our side, with glorious sunshine every day. 

Viola designer Paul Jayson relaxes in one of the few quiet periods during what was a very busy show. Our main system (shown above) comprised a Viola Cadenza preamplifier, a pair of Viola Forte monoblock amplifiers (adjacent to the speakers), driving Viola Allegro speakers coupled with the Basso passive sub-woofers.  This was all driven by the excellent Bel Canto universal player.  In between the Fortes is our Viola Symphony 200W stereo amplifier.  The 75W Fortes worked so we that we never got around connecting the Symphony, though quite a few people took some convincing that we didn't have it driving the sub-woofers.

Also new at the show this year was our Viola Duet electronic cross-over, another Paul Jayson creation.  This is a 2 band stereo unit. It has been developed from our Quartet 4 band mono cross-over and uses the same filters, power supply and chassis.

Harry van Dalen and Martin Odijk who run the Dutch high-end audio distributor More Music and distribute Viola in the Benelux countries.  They also run Turtle Records  and kindly left us their latest release - Jean Muller playing a selection of Chopin pieces.  This excellent piano recording became a firm favorite during the show. We have used their picture from last year, but as they haven't changed in the last 12 months we don't think they will mind us using it again. 

Wolgang Linhard from our distributor in Germany, Audio Excellence.  The reason Wolfgang is smiling is because he came to see us on the first day of the show and before he had been to the Convention Center.
 

Mr. Hideaki Nishikawa, President of our Japanese distributor Zephyrn.  Japan is the most demanding high-end audio market in the world and through his hard work and expertise it has become our largest market.

Omer Doganci and Laurent Labat-Camy from Extreme Audio our new distributor in Turkey.  This was our first time to meet  and we are looking forward to working closely with them in the future..

Han Tin Kwang from Reference Audio, our distributor in Singapore and Malaysia. Last year Han  picked the day with the heaviest rain to come and see us.  This year he brought us better weather.

If you are visiting Singapore, make sure you visit his showroom, which is located in the Adelphi Building.  Not only will you hear from excellent sounds, but you will also meet one of the nicest people in the audio industry.

Miura-san, one of the leading Japanese high-end audio reviewers and long time friend paid us a visit.  He was working on his show report for the Japanese high-end audio magazine Stereo Sound, but took time off from his busy schedule so that we could catch up on the news from Japan.

Ringle Fong and Robert Wan from Forthwise, our distributor in Hong Kong and China. Another pair of old friends and welcome visitors.

We would like to acknowledge the help we had from a couple of friends in making this all work.

First mention goes to Mike Kochman of Echo Busters, for his excellent room tuning panels.  These really work and without them we would never have been able to tame the difficult acoustics of the room.

More information about Echo Busters may be found at www.echobusters.com.

Second mention goes to Mike Broughton of The Audiophile Source.  Mike's  considerable room and system tuning skills enabled us to get the most out of our system. 

Anyone who wishes to have their system set up to provide maximum listening pleasure can get in touch with Mike at 1 970 485 2472 or visit his web site at Audiophile Source.

Mike is also a talented photographer and has just opened a gallery in Kremmling, Colorado.

We'd also like to thank Mike's wife Lee-Ann for letting Michael come out and play.

As last year, we'd like to thank the staff at our favorite eatery in Las Vegas, the Peppermill. Once again they helped us to keep body, soul and stomach together during the show.