AudioStream readers and computer audio enthusiasts will not want to miss the seminar titled: I Want To Take You Higher – The Present and Future of Digital Music Delivery and Playback which will take place on Saturday and Sunday from 2pm - 3pm. Yours truly will be moderating on Saturday and David Chesky will handle those duties on Sunday. Panelists include Rob Robinson (Channel D), Larry Ho (Light Harmonic), David Chesky (HDtracks & Chesky Records), and Andreas Koch (Playback Designs).

If you walked around SSI 2012 and asked questions of manufacturers and exhibitors and listened to people talk to each other while sitting at the bar (purely for research purposes), you'd have come away with an array of (opposing) ideas relating to how to get the best sound from computer-based audio.

Here are my top ten favorite tips heard and overheard:

The folks at Coup de Foudre sure know how to throw a party which makes me think they surely know how to party. While our gracious hosts Jennifer Cytrynbaum and Graeme Humfrey were too busy hosting to join in the festivities, I have the sneaking suspicion my thinking about this is correct. In any event, the party featured truly amazing food, wine, music and company and an overall atmosphere of good spirits in any and every sense you can think of. Everyone I spoke to and saw felt or looked as if they were floating every so slightly above the floor.