The Montreal Show: Salon Son & Image, Is Moving

Salon Son & Image, the unique consumer electronics show in Canada is moving.

August, 2009 – The Montreal based SSI are very excited to welcome you March 25, 26, 27 and 28, 2010 to our new location at the Hilton Montreal Bonaventure. A beautiful exterior garden surrounds a unique penthouse-style hotel having guest rooms all on the same floor, allowing our visitors to easily find their way while eliminating wasted time in elevators. The rooms, with windows that open to the outside, will certainly be more comfortable to exhibitors and visitors alike. Their contemporary design facilitates a luxurious décor, and their size is perfect for listening rooms. Moreover, the fact that they have reinforced concrete walls ensures a sound quality that was noticeably absent in recent years.

The long corridors of the Bonaventure Hilton allow us to distribute exhibitor rooms over a greater area in an intelligent way. This will virtually eliminate noise travel between neighbouring suites when the doors of the rooms remain open to ensure a smooth flow of traffic.

The large halls are all on a single floor just below that of the rooms, greatly simplifying the comings and goings of visitors. This also allows them to conveniently visit their favourite exhibitors more than once.

The layout allows each room and each hall to be a prime location. Visitors will save significant time moving around, without missing a single exhibitor.

Another very important improvement is that the receiving and shipping of goods will now happen indoors. Cold weather and lack of space will be a thing of the past, thanks to the huge loading dock inside Place Bonaventure.

And a piece of good news – as the SSI dates overlap those of the 150,000-visitor National Home Show which will be taking place at Place Bonaventure, we can take advantage of this traffic to attract new visitors.

Such an investment on our part during an uncertain economic situation is further proof of our comprehensive dedication to the promotion of the audio-video industry in Quebec and in Canada.

For more information please contact : Sarah Tremblay, Director Salon Son & Image, 2054 De Salaberry, St-Bruno, Qc J3V 4N6, Ph : 450-441-5989, Cell : 514-267-6231 stremblay@salonsonimage.com ; www.salonsonimage.com

Twitter, FaceBook and Us

We are on Twitter at:

http://twitter.com/spintricity

This will allow us to keep people up to date about Spintricity more frequently than here on the blog – and it will be more broadly focused as well.

We are also on FaceBook at:

Spintricity’s Group on FaceBook

We also have a Page over there – but the FaceBook software is so buggy, it is still kind of mucked up. Eventually we should be able to have each Spintricity article appear over there simultaneously [more or less] with its publication in the magazine.

Spintricity’s Page on FaceBook

Should we Twitter the Shootouts?

We were wondering if people were interested in having us Twitter the events and impressions of various shootouts here at Audio Federation.

For those of you who have a real life, Twitter is a very popular place to post comments and everyone has something somewhere between a Blog and a Chat Room, into which to post lots of very short messages.

The idea would be for us to post play-by-play about what is playing, what cables are being listened to, what peoples impressions are, and try to answer people’s questions during the shootout.

Anyway, just wanted to see if there was any interest. If there is not, that’s OK as it does take some amount of effort on our part – but if there is lots of interest, then it could be fun and you all out there might have some really good questions and ideas that will help the shootout be more effective at defining the differences between various components and cables.