Yes, I am tough, for good reason.
I, just like so many others, am tired of the bitching and moaning by manufacturers/exhiitors about the difficulties of getting good sound, and their complaints when they get honest feedback that is less than satisfying to them.
I know that it's difficult to get a good sound at a show -- and i don't want to be in the shoes of the exhitors either -- , but that sound is what potential customers necessarily judge the exhibit by. Or should manufacturers circle flyers among the audience explaining how much effort they put into it, for perhaps a few tears of sympathy?
The world doesn't work that way folks. Get over it.
If you think you can't get good sound, don't exhibit. If you think you can good sound, and the result is less than satisfying, take the blame like a man, rather than complaining about unfavorable feedback or conditions.
Exhibitors: you think you are tired of hearing about bad sound in your room? No, it's the paying visitors of the show who are sick and tired of hearing bad sound, and who deserve better. Think about that for a moment.
Hi Al,
I’m sorry, but my thinking is different again.
Given you felt the internet owed you coverage that reflected your own preferences, and now, make assumptions about the “paying visitors” who “deserve better”, let me provide an alternative perspective from someone who actually got on a plane to attend the show/rooms we’re discussing.
I paid 20 € for a two-day pass to Munich. With flights from continental Europe, two meals, several coffees and many bottles of sparkling water, I’d say the cumulative price of admission for me was less than 500 €.
That’s significantly less - and by orders of magnitude - than the cost of the booth alone, not including the costs associated with freighting/shipping, flights, accommodation, meals, and time lost to travel that ever single manufacturer would have accumulated over those four days.
Me? I saw a lot of manufacturers who had taken a lot of time, effort and money to create a presence at Munich that will be easily negated by online comments from consumers who did not make the effort to attend, simply because it costs them nothing to post relative to actually going, allowing them to cast aspersions from afar in which those same comments are amplified by an internet culture in which an online comment is perceived as being more “true” than anything in real life.
I consider the small but significant expenditure of attending the show to pale in comparison to what the many manufacturers here needed to shell out for results that are often much less than intended - however,
actually attending the show and accumulating first-hand experience I consider completely superior to someone who did not attend, and then feels their interests (show coverage/“good” sound for "potential customers") are therefore under-represented.
Your own system thread and the many posts you’ve made in regard to it stand as a real-world record of the time, effort and energy of what it takes to make a room “work”. Were your suddenly asked to pack up your system, transport it and set it up in a room you were unfamiliar with, would you be confident you could recreate anything close to what you currently achieve in your own room, and in less than day? Think about that for a moment.
Be well, Al,
853guy
P.S. As to the "bitching and moaning"...? How many posts is it now you've made apropos a show you did not attend? If you really feel your interests are under-represented, be a "paying visitor" next time and have some skin in the game.