BKT Demo Sale

DEMO SALE- From time to time we sell off the demo gear we have to keep our equipment fresh. Right we have a few pairs of speakers we are selling from PSB and Totem. Please drop us a line or call for more details.

The Totem Element series lands this week. The Element series features completely new Torrent drivers developed by Vince Bruzzese of Totem.
Bring your music over and let's listen to them. We're going to try various amplifier options including VTL for tube lovers, the Bryston 7B monoblocks as well some Luxman amps.




The Totem Team from left to right

Nico Bruzzese son of Vince and one of the lead designers, Dan Healey in Sales, Vince Bruzzese the founder and President of Totem, Stephen Libin head of US Sales and Lucy Lentini head of world wide sales and Marketing

Magico announces the Q1

On May 11, Magico announced another member of the "Q" family of loudspeakers; the Q1. The Q1 is a stand mounted monitor and has the same drivers as its big brothers; the Q3 and Q5. Big Kids Toys is offering special deals on the Q1 to celebrate its introduction. Call us for details. 336.340.3945.

We're doing a lot of outdoor flat panels and speakers. We can fully trick out your deck or patio so those summer parties.

Have a great month.

We're having an open house this Friday April 1st! Time 5:30-7:30PM Light refreshments. Bring your music and DVD's. Our buddy Amos will be in attendance. I believe he gets tired of milk.

address - 1413 Garland Dr. Greensboro NC 27408 336.340.3945

Happy March to all! Come on Spring!
We'll be having some lunch time sessions at Big Kids Toys very shortly. We are in the process of finishing the large Home Theater room with JVC's new projector line. Stay tuned on this. As soon as we are done, we will publish a schedule.

New Items: just got the Bryston BDP-1 USB player. very nice. You can now have your entire CD collection on USB drives.
Also we got a pair of Totem Mite's in White. We get a surprising amount of interest for speakers in different color palettes. The pic here shows the Totem Line in various colors.
The Magico Q3 will be here in late 2nd Quarter 2011. We will have a special event when they land.
As always, call or stop by -- Best to all!

Fun Times at CES

Well, it was quite a time at CES in Las Vegas. It was the largest attendance in CES history. Here are some thumbnails on what we saw. Video: We spent an entire day at the LVCC which is dedicated to the big names in all things video (Sony, Samsung, LG, Panasonic etc). Two "walk-aways" from that day. Every manufacturer is trying to solve doing 3D without glasses. They have a ways to go yet. We saw a number of flat panels that had some version of 3D - no glasses. They all had off angle viewing problems in oru opinion. The industry will solve this but its going to be sometime yet in our view before flat panels with acceptable viewing angles hit the market. The second item is streaming. It seems that every device we saw streamed Netflix, Blockbuster, and all of the audio services. Check in that box. They have streaming down cold. We actually saw a refrigerator that streamed. I will let you decide if that is over the top.

We spent two days at the Venetian which is the CES headquarters for audio. We heard many excellent systems during those 2 days. We remain convinced now more than ever, that we have excellent brands. PSB was showing a new mini-monitor, the Imagine mini, pictured right which was incredible. At $700, the pair, they sounded great. We will have a pair in March.

NAD Introduced new A/V receivers with additional power in the upper end units. The T787 HD-2 will have 200wpc if my memory serves me. And they expanded the MDC architecture down to their classic series of 2 channel products.

Our friends at Totem introduced a complete new line of speakers, the Element series (pictured below). The Element will come in monitor and 2 floor standing versions. They sounded rich; a liquidy sound that Totem is known for. We had a good meeting with Vince Bruzzese, the president of Totem, who stepped us through the making of the Speaker and the new torrent drivers in them. We think that these speakers will sell well.

We spent Friday morning with team from Magico Loudspeakers. This included a dealer only meeting with Alon Wolf, Totems president and designer. Irv Gross, VP of Sales, stepped us through the new Q3. The Q3 is a aluminum cabinet with new drivers. We listened to the Q3's for over an hour. They're an incredible speaker. We loved them and in fact ordered a pair. Our pair will be here in late April. If you love music, you must here the Q3.

VTL showed the new MB-185III monoblock tube amps. Wow- talk about eye candy. The glow of the tubes in the dark room was very neat.

If have any questions or comments, always feel free to call us (336.340.3945) or email us bigkidmike@triad.rr.com. Great week to all

CES 2011

We're packing for CES, that annual gathering of 150,000 people who love all things video and audio. We're scheduled to meet with: Samsung, JVC Pro, LG, VuTec Screens,Bryston, Magico, Totem Acoustic, Thiel Audio, Onkyo, NAD, PSB, VuDu and many many more.

Last years' theme was 3D. Let's see what happens this year. If any of you wish us to visit any manufacturer on your behalf, just drop us a line. Adam or myself will be glad to do so.

We have daily updates for you. Happy New Year to all.

The crew at Big Kids Toys
336.340.3945