In early January, the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) welcomed to Las Vegas more than 150,000 attendees, which the Consumer Electronics Association says beats the attendance record set at the 2012 CES. The vast majority of these attendees crowded the Las Vegas Convention Center, but the nearby Venetian Hotel hosted a smorgasbord of demonstrations for the world’s leading high-fidelity audio-equipment manufacturers. And while this year for these companies proved to be more evolutionary than revolutionary, t…