CES 2021: Virtually, a Non-Event

ormally in this issue we’d bring you a round-up of CES, held in Las Vegas every year in the first week of January, but this year, just like last year, there’s no such thing as ‘normal’ thanks to Covid-19. So of course CES wasn’t held this year. Or, rather, it wasn’t held as a physical event. In true “the show must go on” spirit, the show’s organisers decided” This might have been all well and good except that ‘virtual’ really doesn’t work where high-fidelity components are concerned, because much of the newsworthiness of a hi-fi product revolves around how it sounds, and this can’t be determined via a ‘virtual’ event. So Australian Hi-Fi didn’t go to CES this year, nor are we publishing our usual CES Report.