Year 2000 WCES and T.H.E. SHOW.
By Dave Glackin
" The strangest Company Name hands down (of any CES was Buggtussel (Stan was wandering around the hotel room that night, reveling in the sound of "Buggtussel"). Kevin Blair is the proprietor, and I wish I had had a portable voice recorder to get down his entire line of patter "( I'm a downsized Upjohn pharmacologist...") He manufactures high-efficiency loudspeakers with unlikely names like "Amygdala." The guy looks perfectly normal, and hails from Michigan. (I guess you just never know...) The good, albeit crazed, Dr. Blair was partnered, sound previously unheard, with the deHavilland Electric Amplifier Company of Santa Rosa, California, represented by George Kielczynski and Kara Chaffee. These folks make a beautiful single-ended 40 W monoblock amp called the Aries, which uses a Svetlana SV572 output tube and a KT88 for a driver. The pairing of deHavilland and Buggtussel, while perhaps an unusual mix of personalities, certainly resulted in a beautiful sounding system. Hope to see you all next year!