Heathrow show this coming weekend - who's going?

I (and friends) heard the Creek/Epos room - it was OK - pretty good in fact, but hardly deserving of the level of praise in 'response 31' IMHO.
 
YNMOAN said:
I (and friends) heard the Creek/Epos room - it was OK - pretty good in fact, but hardly deserving of the level of praise in 'response 31' IMHO.
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Which of their systems was it? I heard the Evo system (using their CD player) with the smaller floorstanders (M16i). For me it was far better than the record deck/Destiny/M22i I heard in the morning.

Andrew Randle
 
AndrewR said:
Which of their systems was it? I heard the Evo system (using their CD player) with the smaller floorstanders (M16i). For me it was far better than the record deck/Destiny/M22i I heard in the morning.

Andrew Randle
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re my post 53. It was the record deck system I heard, shame I missed the smaller system.
 
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sq225917 said:
I'll just state the best and worse for
Nuforce and Chord: two examples of why class D and smps will be the death of us.
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I don't think you can put all Class D amplifiers in the same bracket, it's like hearing one bad valve amplifier and saying all valve amplifiers are poor, I heard the Nuforce and I agree, I guess that's why the have sent us (Huygens Audio) their amplifiers to be looked at, the engineer took one look at them and refused to connect them to his loudspeakers and their distortions are so high.

Class D done right will sound good, it's doing it right that's the hard part.
 
Dev said:
Cheers Dean.
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Hi Dev,

You are welcome.

I thought the show was quieter than previous years with less people showing their wares. It seems the cost to exhibit is quite high and not worth the return. I'm aware of some people seriously thinking about not doing the show next year.

I thought it was ok but could be better. You could have a decent listen as the room were not packed all the time. Some room were very quiet (tumble weed springs to mind.) I prefered the April show which more interesting items.

One thing I liked was talking to Jonathan Monks, who owns and makes the Keith Monks record cleaning machines. He had a stall demoing his record cleaning machine. He looked the part in white lab coat. The machine cleaned the records to a high standard but is not cheap (£2000 for the cheapest one). It is also very quiet.

http://www.keithmonks-rcm.co.uk/index.html

I had a good browse at the Stanford Audio & Diverse record stalls but only bought 1 record. (I must be ill!)

I did meet up with a number of people from the various forums which was good.

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After visiting the Park Inn show last Saturday I am appalled with what the industry considers that it can pass off to the public in the UK these days.

I remember years ago going to the annual Heathrow penta shows and running out of time to fight my way through the crowded corridors to see every exhibitors rooms spread over three floors!

The foyer and ground floor was always packed with accessories stalls from Hi-Fi News, Audiophile Candy, Ringmat and the like, flogging all manner of goodies. The real treat was sifting through the shelves of CD's and LP's for those audiophile recordings to spend on.

The atmosphere would be upbeat with lovely scantily-clad ladies accosting you at intervals and thrusting a promotional catalogue and carrier bag into your hand.

Today, we pay £12 (plus £6 parking) to see a handful of rooms and virtually non existant display of accessories and recordings.

I don't think I will bother going to another show in the UK. Next years visit to the USA will be timed to include a visit to the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest in Denver for me and my mate, while our ladies shop themselves silly back in Boston!
 

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