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On the same floor as the two rooms mentioned was the most interesting looking speaker I saw at this year’s CES, and it also happened to sound fairly good. This was the $30,000.00 Silbatone Aporia Horn driven by Silbatone electronics. For lack of a more eloquent description, this reminded me of a B&W Nautilus on steroids. The sound was quite captivating though as it truly did seem to go full-range with no noticeable suck out in any particular frequency range. I sat for quite a while trying to convince myself that this would pass muster with Paula on the WAF. Perhaps in a different and darker color it would look a bit better. With the 3-point star at the front of the full range driver, there was a distinct feeling this was a speaker designed by Mercedes Benz. It uses a customized flat-cone Manger driver from Germany, and is geometry-optimized for smooth wave flow and compact form.