I doubt you are missing anything! I asked was it a tulip waveguide and the guy said, no it was an all new design! Wouldn't surprise me if you come back and tell me everything inside is the same as the Legacies. They then went on to tell me that they are made in Hamilton Scotland.
I have to agree. There was quite a lot of blingtastic "mine's bigger/sparklier/far-less-affordable than yours" macho aesthetic on show. 'Twas ever thus in my hifi show experience. There were also some lovely exceptions though; rarely gorgeous, just beautifully understated... you know, as if to say the music will speak for itself. Who knew?!
I did notice this. Here in the UK, we are occasionally fortunate enough to see actual women at a hifi show, but in my experience the few are far more likely to be accompanying the hifi geek than to be the hifi geek. With notable exceptions, natch. Munich felt very different; strongly male-oriented but it did feel rather more inclusive.
It was great to meet and chat with you @uncl_nigel. You can imagine how anxious I was about taking your top identification tips seriously and simply approaching any guy with a white stick... but I think my circling and badge-reading before speaking trick served me well! Glad you enjoyed your visit, and I agree about the music choices.
Er, seriously? Yes, I have skin in the game but I also heard some great rooms exclusively using streaming, such as the Audia Flight room and the room CAD were sharing. Not show-off rooms, real music rooms, and (whether it's related or not), underpopulated/under-appreciated compared with some of the more blingtastic rooms. I'm bot at all sure blaming the source is right here.
I used a similar phrase myself several times since the show. There were a good few cable wannabe millionaires who had gone to some effort to make their cables look "high end" but without a pedigree...? I did a couple of fairly swift tours of the ground floor across all 4 halls and couldn't help feeling sorry for them as I'm not sure I saw anyone pausing to engage in conversation. How dispiriting (and how much of a reality check) this must be!
OK, I should qualify the statement a bit. The rooms with good streaming, like CAD, had gone to some trouble to address noise, using solutions like yours, CAD, Aardvark, and similar. Many clearly hadn’t because the source was lifeless and devoid of colour, when compared to other sources. If you are showing your amps, or speakers, it seems silly to hobble them by using an inadequate source, but many did.
We didn't go to Munich this year but on the two previous occasions we have heard the CAD rooms we thought they sounded good, if memory serves they used standmounts, probably better in smaller uk show rooms.
Sorry Nigel,Is that a different Flash?
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a pensioners moment, I will amend my post above.
Some stands on the ground floor do incorporate a listening room, and some of these sounded better than the big Atrium rooms, perhaps because they were a more manageable space. But I think a fair few of the exhibitors in that floor are there for brand visibility and networking with trade and press, rather than punters. A lot of distribution deals are done or renewed at events like this.
) to see if vacuous_tubes has had a better night’s sleep. I really shouldn’t bother.
