When I started to get highly interested in recorded music, going to shows was a positive experience for me. It helped me to get started and pointed me toward my earliest purchases over several years - a new entry-level SS integrated amplifier, followed by a somewhat better set of SS monoblocks and hybrid preamp from the same mfr, and later on a tube headphone amplifier and a pair of LS3/5As. Shows later turned me onto tube PP and finally to SET systems. I started in the '90s, but by about 2005, I was finished with shows. It became harder and harder to find anything I liked. I found the room culture to be bizarre, the mfrs and dealers mind-numbing, and the music generally awful. In the end, i spent an entire day in two rooms, virtually and gratefully alone, listening to music with the exhibitors. I've never gone to a show, since.
But a lot of people are enthralled by audio shows. I just wonder, why?
But a lot of people are enthralled by audio shows. I just wonder, why?
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