California Audio Show 2019 - CAS9 - some show reports and photos

[davidavdavid]

CAS9 has come and gone. It was a wonderful sunny weekend in Oakland, California for one of the States' more "intimate" HI-Fi shows. Quality over quantity was/is the watchword, with attendees feeling no pressure to run from room to room and there being ample time for them to talk with the manufacturers/designers/company representative and their fellow attendees as well.

Here are some show Dagogo show reports:

https://www.dagogo.com/2019-cas-report-byron-baba/
https://www.dagogo.com/2019-cas-report-doug-schroeder/

and from the Audio Beatnik (the first five posts are all CAS9 related)

https://theaudiobeatnik.com/category/showreports/

I shall endeavor to share more and more from the States with my Fishies across the pond(s).

 

[davidavdavid]

I put this video montage together so folks can see what was in each of the rooms at The California Audio Show 2019 - CAS9.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KC99_Qb64FjgPgbDVnO3_uNDzERbBa01/view?usp=sharing

 

[davidavdavid]

and part 1 of my show report, not doing it all at once
need some time to digest what I see and hear

if nothing else leave this show report believing in ASC TubeTraps, they transformed one room in particular
https://www.dagogo.com/2019-cas-report-david-blumenstein-part-1/

 

[Darren]

Wonderful!! thanks for doing this David. Much appreciated.

 

[gordon]

this is most likely due to my lack of reading comprehension, but is the first sentence (quoted below) actually a sentence? if so, could you parse it for my simple mind? thanks.

"The 2019 California Audio Show, “CAS9” as it unfolded, as it was and is destined to be in its past, present and future incarnations."

 

[davidavdavid]

this is most likely due to my lack of reading comprehension, but is the first sentence (quoted below) actually a sentence? if so, could you parse it for my simple mind? thanks.

"The 2019 California Audio Show, “CAS9” as it unfolded, as it was and is destined to be in its past, present and future incarnations."

The California Audio Show is not looking to be the next Munich or AXPONA. It is looking to maintain its intimacy, and not grow for the sake of growing where its charm and genial nature are sacrificed. Holger Adler of Voxativ Acoustic Technologies and an exhibitor this year put it best:

“My personal impression of the show was how Constantine Soo and his partners: Byron Baba, David Blumenstein, and Doug Schroeder created a feeling that is simply the meeting of old and good friends who like each other. I enjoyed my stay very much and I will be back next year with Voxativ Acoustic Technologies.”

We, at CAS, want it to always be that way, as it has been, as it is, and as it will be. Not so big that you have to race around to see everything, not so big that interactions with exhibitors and fellow attendees seem rushed and inorganic.

And it was not meant to be a sentence, that would have been a fortunate happenstance. It was yet another method of intriguing readers/fishies.

Thanks for asking.

 

[davidavdavid]

California Audio Show 2019 (CAS9) Interview with Lyn Stanley

Enjoy.