Show Reports

September 29, 2009 by Michael

Japan Audio Show

I was emailing with Yoav of YG Acoustics about Spintricity earlier this month and he mentioned that the Japan Audio Show was the same time as RMAF this year.

Well, I did not realize it falls on EXACTLY THE SAME 3 days:

Japan Audio Show

We hope to get some photos of this years show in Japan, but the scuttlebutt is that many exhibitors at that show discourage people taking photographs… can you imagine? A show with a policy like that would make me feel… nauseous. 🙂

Traditionally, everyone who drives to RMAF, including us, wants it to be early October (or Sept) because that means that the probability of snow is less. Loading and unloading in the snow, trying to get over the snowed in mountain passes to the show – it just ain’t all that much fun.

But next year RMAF is on Oct. 15th. Oh boy oh boy.

But at least it would allow people to attend both shows if they want to.

September 29, 2009 by Michael

Just about packed for RMAF 2009…

The Audio Note M9 Phono preamp is still at the shippers… and 2 of the HRS M3 platforms are still coming in to a different shipper – but hopefully by driving all over Denver we will have everything together for our 9030 and 9026 rooms at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2009.

Everything except… a turntable for the big room. With the arm not arriving until tomorrow in Denver, with the crates to take the rack we would use for the turntable not arriving until tomorrow down in Denver – it is just too much…

Also, we really wanted to use an all Nordost ODIN system – although we love our 10 meter Valhalla (which runs from the rack with turntable that we usually have near the rear of the room) and we even had it converted to balanced for this show – it would just not be the ODIN.

So this means the entire system will be in the front of the room. This means going up in front of everybody to change a CD. It means just one source so we can’t swap quickly between them, leaving some time where No Music Is Playing.

So it sucks. But we hope the small size of the resultant system, it ability to be optimized with the 100% ODIN, and our better dispositions because we are not dead tired from lugging tons of equipment around – will all be of benefit to the overall show experience in our room.

Hope so, anyway.

We will be doing live reporting from the show – as usual. If they take the internet out of our exhibit room we will just make them Put It Back. Hopefully a few new features we added to Spintricity will let me put up more than the maximum 26 photos – which is usually all I have time for [which took about 1.5 hours]. I am hoping to double that… maybe even more than double.

We’ll see…