Some images form the Audio Video Show in Poland last weekend (6-8.11.2015).
With 145 rooms, this is the second largest show in Europe after Munich right now. It takes place in 3 locations: Hotels Golden Tulip and Radiosson Sobieski, and National Stadium (I believe this is the first show in the world that uses the stadium's Sky Boxes to host hifi show).
The show was a smashing success, with over 11k visitors and people literally flooding all 3 venues. The hi-fi is obviously still live and kicking over here !
Headphones section, with over 25 exhibitors, was alsways very crowded with LOTS of young people (I have seen 11 or 12 year olds coming with their iPhones !):
The mighty Sennheiser Orpheus. One of 300 ever made. You can grab one from ebay for ~ $30k:
R2R machines were present:
As were the TTs. The TT were the primary source in over 35 rooms !
Audio Tekne room:
Living Voice Vox Olympian speakers driven by Kondo electronics - $2.000.000 worth of gear ...
(More on the LV setup: Mono and Stereo High-End Audio Magazine: Living Voice Vox Olympian horn speakers at Poland Audio Show 2015)
FM Acoustics demo (notice the stadium behind !):
Blumenhofer speakers - this is the second time I've heard those speakers, and I really like them. Very different to my Magicos, but so communicative and fun to listen to !
Ken Ishiwata from Marantz was doing his magic:
Triangle top of the range towers:
We had headphones, more headphones and even more headphones:
Martin Logan Neoliths:
Diesis Audio speakers with Angstrom tube gear. The Angstrom stuff looks very impressive - 100% discrete, all tube. Superb build quality.
Machina Dynamica all-aluminium speakers driven by Einstein - one of my fav sounds at the Sobieski Hotel:
TAD with Naim also sounded great. I would never have thought this combination would work !
In the Cabasse / Chord room you could listen to the first generation tape copy (!) of The Beatles Sgt. Pepper album on Studer R2R deck ! This particular tape copy was made by the EMI for the Yugoslavia's Yugoton record label to press the vinyl (in the old times almost every country had his own vinyl press plants, so a few of those first gen copies exist).
The event was hosted by Piotr Metz - a well known Polish music journalist and The Beatles fan:
That was the very first time I've heard the Goldmund all active system - and I liked what I've heard ! DSP equalised, fully active with analog amps driving all drive units separately - Goldmund may have a point here.
Wally Malewicz from Wally Tools during the Analog Seminar:
The opening press conference gathered nearly 70 journalists. Left to right:
- Hirek Wrona (well known Polish music journalist)
- Pawe? Edelman (Academy Award nominated camera man; he was nominated for best cinematography for the movie The Pianist)
- Andrzej Smolik (Polish musician)
- the guy behind the show (forgot the name).
We also had some live performances during the show. Andrzej Smolik and Kev Fox were promoting their new album:
We also had Andrea Celeste in FMA room:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXfxpgnqhHQ
With 145 rooms, this is the second largest show in Europe after Munich right now. It takes place in 3 locations: Hotels Golden Tulip and Radiosson Sobieski, and National Stadium (I believe this is the first show in the world that uses the stadium's Sky Boxes to host hifi show).
The show was a smashing success, with over 11k visitors and people literally flooding all 3 venues. The hi-fi is obviously still live and kicking over here !
Headphones section, with over 25 exhibitors, was alsways very crowded with LOTS of young people (I have seen 11 or 12 year olds coming with their iPhones !):
The mighty Sennheiser Orpheus. One of 300 ever made. You can grab one from ebay for ~ $30k:
R2R machines were present:
As were the TTs. The TT were the primary source in over 35 rooms !
Audio Tekne room:
Living Voice Vox Olympian speakers driven by Kondo electronics - $2.000.000 worth of gear ...
(More on the LV setup: Mono and Stereo High-End Audio Magazine: Living Voice Vox Olympian horn speakers at Poland Audio Show 2015)
FM Acoustics demo (notice the stadium behind !):
Blumenhofer speakers - this is the second time I've heard those speakers, and I really like them. Very different to my Magicos, but so communicative and fun to listen to !
Ken Ishiwata from Marantz was doing his magic:
Triangle top of the range towers:
We had headphones, more headphones and even more headphones:
Martin Logan Neoliths:
Diesis Audio speakers with Angstrom tube gear. The Angstrom stuff looks very impressive - 100% discrete, all tube. Superb build quality.
Machina Dynamica all-aluminium speakers driven by Einstein - one of my fav sounds at the Sobieski Hotel:
TAD with Naim also sounded great. I would never have thought this combination would work !
In the Cabasse / Chord room you could listen to the first generation tape copy (!) of The Beatles Sgt. Pepper album on Studer R2R deck ! This particular tape copy was made by the EMI for the Yugoslavia's Yugoton record label to press the vinyl (in the old times almost every country had his own vinyl press plants, so a few of those first gen copies exist).
The event was hosted by Piotr Metz - a well known Polish music journalist and The Beatles fan:
That was the very first time I've heard the Goldmund all active system - and I liked what I've heard ! DSP equalised, fully active with analog amps driving all drive units separately - Goldmund may have a point here.
Wally Malewicz from Wally Tools during the Analog Seminar:
The opening press conference gathered nearly 70 journalists. Left to right:
- Hirek Wrona (well known Polish music journalist)
- Pawe? Edelman (Academy Award nominated camera man; he was nominated for best cinematography for the movie The Pianist)
- Andrzej Smolik (Polish musician)
- the guy behind the show (forgot the name).
We also had some live performances during the show. Andrzej Smolik and Kev Fox were promoting their new album:
We also had Andrea Celeste in FMA room:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXfxpgnqhHQ