After a one year break I drove to Las Vegas to attend the Consumer Electronics Show and T.H.E. Show with the primary purpose of meeting a number of people to discuss futures and secondly to see and hear what's new. As in the past I was impressed with the many ways one can make sound, yet the apparent difficulty of creating a you-are-there experience, rather than one of loudspeakers in a room. From giant horns with compression drivers using massive field coil motor structures (Cogent True-To-Life Loudspeakers), to tall line sources with large numbers of identical drivers (e.g. DALI MegaLine, and redesigned PipeDreams by High Emotion Audio), to the almost infinite number of small variations on the theme of the conventional box loudspeaker (new TAD Model-2, Burmester B100, Magico Mini, Sonics Allegra, etc., etc.) there was something for everyone. It was fun to observe some reviewers attentively listening to their own test tracks, or to what the speaker manufacturer put on, presumably to hear something of significance to write about in the magazines.