RMAF – Denver Rocky Mountain Audio Fest
15 more days.
We are spending a lot of time on the RMAF show preparations these days…
Deciding what furniture to have them take out of the room, and which to leave in
Making up a full page ad for the show directory (the booklet they hand out to attendees)
Getting our room posters made up that show the current list of product lines we carry… we added a few lately: Kharma, Elrod and Acoustic Zen (we love their Adagio speakers), and of course we lost Acapella.
Getting new business cards made up (we usually use the impetus of a show to update our business cards, if they need it).
Making up and printing out our handouts that we give everyone who comes to our room which describes each component we have in our system.
Focusing a lot at the gym on the muscles that are needed to Carry Heavy Equipment – especially those involved going up and down stairs.
Coordinating with everyone to get everything to show up on time for the show – things are looking positive lately on this front … (* W * H * E * W! *).
Creating the pages for our usual RMAF 2006 show report which are looking awfully empty right now…. The photo of the sunset was taken from our room at the show on I believe the evening of the last day of the show last year.
Drawing up the diagrams that show which components are going to go on which shelves of the equipment racks. We are taking our glossssssss black HRS ‘MXR’ rack, and HRS has graciously offered to send us out a loaner MXR rack, in silver (see pictures of a silver MXR in our photo rich HE 2006 show report).
And, of course, deciding which equipment to bring. 🙂 It is tempting to bring the whole store to the show…. but not very practical, unfortunately.
Its firming up a little bit. Mostly what is changing is which manufacturers and distributors are goijng to be able to make it. I think we added 2 and changed 1 since the last post was initially written (it has been updated since).
* Marten Design Coltrane Supreme loudspeakers
* Audio Note U.K. Kegon amplifiers
* Edge Signature One amplifiers
* Audio Note U.K. M10 preamplifier
* Emm Labs DCC2 and CDSD Signature Editions CD / SACD player
* Brinkmann Audio Balance Turntable with Titan cartridge
* Lamm LP2 phonostage
* HRS MXR equipment rack and assorted M3 Isolation Bases
* Nordost Valhalla interconnect (10 meter run from preamp to amplifiers)
* Jorma speaker cable
* Shunyata power cords
* Elrod power cords
In the Audio Note / Audio Federation room, there will be:
* AN/E SEC Silver Signature loudspeakers
* Kageki amplifiers
* M8 preamplifier
* TT1 turntable with Arm Two
* Acoustic Dreams equipment rack and amplifier stands
In attendance, besides Neli and I and Steve, local customer and invaluable assistant, will be:
* Dan Meinwald – Importer for Marten Design and Jorma Design
* Laurence Blair III – Importer for Brinkmann Audio
* Leif Olofsson – Marten Design
* Jorma Koski – Jorma Design
* Dave Cope – Audio Note U.K. Answer Man (next door in the Audio Note / Audio Federation room, room 9026)
* Mike Latvis – HRS (Harmonic Resolution systems)
* Steven Norber – Edge Electronics
