What’s Hot in Consumer Electronics

Expectations always run high at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES), held in Las Vegas in January, where the industry unveils its latest and greatest products and innovations. The higher-end manufacturers didn’t disappoint.

Among the most exciting trends was the introduction of several new wireless music systems—from manufacturers best known for audiophile-grade music systems—equipped with Apple’s AirPlay and other similar technologies allowing users to wirelessly play music from personal devices such as smart phones, MP3 players, and tablet computers. And the result comes closer to hi-fi than wireless ever has before.

My favorite wireless music systems:

• One of the show’s biggest announcements on the wireless front came from Dynaudio (www.dynaudio.com), which unveiled its Xeo line of active (i.e., internally amplified) wireless speakers. Now, most audiophiles will tell you that it is impossible to faithfully reproduce audio without using wires, which may be true, but the Xeo speakers—the Xeo 3 bookshelf model ($2,300 per pair) and Xeo 5 floor-standing model ($4,500 per pair)—come about as close as you can get. Delivery is scheduled for February in stores.

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