HiFi Deluxe Show
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mik bhavnani
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Nice to catch up Graham it has been a while
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graystoke4
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Hi, i will be going Sunday, the last show there was brilliant, took me a whole day to get round,
Yes Mik, its been a while but good to catch up today.
I have to say what a really nice show that was yesterday. Very well organised and nicely laid out. Also specialising in the high end which kept the show compact in size but high in quality and content. Good job Kris @audioshow.
Personally, I liked the Symmetry room which was using Brinkmann turntables and amplifiers and Franco Serblin loudspeakers, also Mike Valentine's Studer 820 using 1/2" tape was playing master tapes. It was also great to catch up with Mark Döhmann in the Absolute Sounds room. This and meeting and listening to Elles Springs at the end of the show in the Audioshow Lounge was the highlight for me. Elles sang some very special and personal songs and you could experience the emotion and tension in the room. She has a great voice and produced some lovely harmonies with her guitarist Mark da Grauw.
Personally, I liked the Symmetry room which was using Brinkmann turntables and amplifiers and Franco Serblin loudspeakers, also Mike Valentine's Studer 820 using 1/2" tape was playing master tapes. It was also great to catch up with Mark Döhmann in the Absolute Sounds room. This and meeting and listening to Elles Springs at the end of the show in the Audioshow Lounge was the highlight for me. Elles sang some very special and personal songs and you could experience the emotion and tension in the room. She has a great voice and produced some lovely harmonies with her guitarist Mark da Grauw.
Zombie
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Some REAL hifi
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I was there too. Managed a signed autograph of her LP. Was a great moment being so close to the artist. I was just behind this pic!I have to say what a really nice show that was yesterday. Very well organised and nicely laid out. Also specialising in the high end which kept the show compact in size but high in quality and content. Good job Kris @audioshow.
Personally, I liked the Symmetry room which was using Brinkmann turntables and amplifiers and Franco Serblin loudspeakers, also Mike Valentine's Studer 820 using 1/2" tape was playing master tapes. It was also great to catch up with Mark Döhmann in the Absolute Sounds room. This and meeting and listening to Elles Springs at the end of the show in the Audioshow Lounge was the highlight for me. Elles sang some very special and personal songs and you could experience the emotion and tension in the room. She has a great voice and produced some lovely harmonies with her guitarist Mark da Grauw.
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The best show for a while. Free bubbly on arrival, free tea/coffee from vending machines, free cocktails during the Elles concert, free bite size snacks in the Vertere room & crunchy biscuits & fruit available free by the vending machines .... brilliant 
In previous years, I reckon this was held at warmer times, the central square was open then for relaxation & hot dogs & the like.
Best rooms for me were Scratton acoustics with the biggest side cabinet like speakers you have ever seen. Somewhat reminiscent of Mission 770's with their white front baffle. Absolutely fabulous sound staging. A mere snip at £55000!
Audio reference being the other. Played much down to earth music like Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, Dave Brubeck, Dire straits etc. Lovely sounding system but the ensemble certainly was not by any means cheap. Airpax speakers alone were £35k. What surprised me the most the exhibitor said this was his very own system!
Whilst there I spent far, far to much on vinyl being MOFI & Analogue production records but was the cheapest I could buy them at after some haggling & offer from the staff boss whom said I could have the more expensive version for less (couldn't really refuse offer) as the standard version was out of stock (surprised me)!
In previous years, I reckon this was held at warmer times, the central square was open then for relaxation & hot dogs & the like.
Best rooms for me were Scratton acoustics with the biggest side cabinet like speakers you have ever seen. Somewhat reminiscent of Mission 770's with their white front baffle. Absolutely fabulous sound staging. A mere snip at £55000!
Audio reference being the other. Played much down to earth music like Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, Dave Brubeck, Dire straits etc. Lovely sounding system but the ensemble certainly was not by any means cheap. Airpax speakers alone were £35k. What surprised me the most the exhibitor said this was his very own system!
Whilst there I spent far, far to much on vinyl being MOFI & Analogue production records but was the cheapest I could buy them at after some haggling & offer from the staff boss whom said I could have the more expensive version for less (couldn't really refuse offer) as the standard version was out of stock (surprised me)!
Darren L
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I have to say what a really nice show that was yesterday. Very well organised and nicely laid out. Also specialising in the high end which kept the show compact in size but high in quality and content. Good job Kris @audioshow.
Personally, I liked the Symmetry room which was using Brinkmann turntables and amplifiers and Franco Serblin loudspeakers, also Mike Valentine's Studer 820 using 1/2" tape was playing master tapes. It was also great to catch up with Mark Döhmann in the Absolute Sounds room. This and meeting and listening to Elles Springs at the end of the show in the Audioshow Lounge was the highlight for me. Elles sang some very special and personal songs and you could experience the emotion and tension in the room. She has a great voice and produced some lovely harmonies with her guitarist Mark da Grauw.
Did you hear the demonstration of the Analogue tape vs direct cut record hosted by Mike Valentine in the Brinkmann/Serblin system room ?
Could you hear a difference?
Not in the Symmetry room with that system Darren, but in my room at the Windsor Show in 2015 and again at Whittlebury show in about 2016 where I supplied the entire system for Mike's room. Also at the Ascot show in 2019. I did post on here at that time and in several posts after 2016. I could certainly hear the difference between formats, Master tape, Vinyl direct cut, Vinyl mastered from tape, 24 bit digital, 16 bit digital in that order of performance, the Master tape being the top. The smallest difference was between the 16 bit and 24 bit digital recordings at that time.
Good show, just back.
For me the direct cut vinyl sounded the best, the reel to reel master at 30 ips also sounded fantastic.
But the different sounding microphones was also an eye opener.
As far as room went, the absolute rooms sounded nice, the rossini room with the pail blue speakers, had the rossini set to it's worst setting as in map, filter and upsampler.
I asked about this, as I could see and understand the settings. The guy in charge off the room,said it was because of the room, and if they used the more optimum settings it upset the room.
Shame really as it didn't really show what it could really do, plus I thought the speaker position a bit strange.
But for me the best sounding room by far was the boyer audio room.
They had a talko streamer, running into a vitus mp dac, then into some mono block valve amps, and finally into some Spanish floor mounted speakers. This system just sounded lovely, very well balanced system, and I could have just stayed in that room.
But overall a nice show and an enjoyable day.
For me the direct cut vinyl sounded the best, the reel to reel master at 30 ips also sounded fantastic.
But the different sounding microphones was also an eye opener.
As far as room went, the absolute rooms sounded nice, the rossini room with the pail blue speakers, had the rossini set to it's worst setting as in map, filter and upsampler.
I asked about this, as I could see and understand the settings. The guy in charge off the room,said it was because of the room, and if they used the more optimum settings it upset the room.
Shame really as it didn't really show what it could really do, plus I thought the speaker position a bit strange.
But for me the best sounding room by far was the boyer audio room.
They had a talko streamer, running into a vitus mp dac, then into some mono block valve amps, and finally into some Spanish floor mounted speakers. This system just sounded lovely, very well balanced system, and I could have just stayed in that room.
But overall a nice show and an enjoyable day.
graystoke4
pfm Member
Hi, just got back an hour ago, Nottingham, i also thought the Boyer room was about the best, but there was hundreds of thousands of £££ gear playing, just in that room, the Spanish speakers being the cheapest of all the gear, the Swedish £136,950 ERIC Encore mono's were sounding so real, and they were massive about a meter long, then there was mile's of Shunyata Research's cabling, and that speaker cable with the Hoops around them, ugly as f88k, and that's probably what they cost, a lot of rooms were using Shunata, and my first time hearing Dartzeel top of the range amps, they should have had some better speakers though, definitive audio had their new speakers playing, the room was full, everyone talking, seem to tell the full story of the music, but didn't sound to detailed, with an oval tweeter, looked a bit weird, £55k, a great show, now where is my Lotto ticket,
chris@panteg
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I enjoyed the show, went both days, enjoyed the coffee and snacks/wine, some enjoyable sounds, good music choices.
Very much liked the new Living Voice R80 speakers.
At the very end of the show today was asked by Lynn Scott to take a group photo of the Definitive audio team, I was happy to do so and I took two photos to make sure.
Very much liked the new Living Voice R80 speakers.
At the very end of the show today was asked by Lynn Scott to take a group photo of the Definitive audio team, I was happy to do so and I took two photos to make sure.
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graystoke4
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Hi here you go and remember these cables are massive, https://shunyata.com/products/audio-cables/omega-series-audio-cables/omega-speaker-cable/