by Michael

Next stop: Stereophile's Home Entertainment Show

It is in L.A. this year.

Our Stereophile Home Entertainment HE 2006 Show Report

We will attend. We will listen. We will photograph. We will report.

The HE 2006 show report home page is already setup.

We will, as always, try to post a bunch of pictures and commentary daily during the show.

After the show it will take a few days, but we will try, as always, to continue to make the Audio Federation show reports bigger, better and more honest than any other show report on or off the net:

* The largest number of photos, in 3 different resolutions (500 x 500, 1000 x 800 and 1500 x 1000), each with an animated and/or manual slideshow option… and more.

* Like both room-by-room photo montages as well as long, floor-by-floor marathons.

* Like more commentary on what things actually sounded like – not through rose-colored ear muffs, but what the roomsreally sounded like.

* Like more about what it felt like to be at the show – the emotion, the smells (not usually so good), the crowds….

We want the show report to be the next best thing to being there yourself!

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 by Michael

Stereophile's 2006 Home Entertainment Show Audio Federation Discount

Stereophile has graciously offered our readers a $5 off deal on tickets to the HE 2006 show. To save the 5 bucks, go to Home Entertainment 2006 to register and enter the super secret passcode “audiofederation” when you sign up for tickets online.

Photoshop'd super-sized and a little melted HE 2006 logo

While checking out the location of the hotel, it appears to be right next to the airport…

PRO: We will be able to get to the hotel, from the airport, in finite time, i.e. before the show is supposed to be over

CON: The cultural amenities near most airports is necessarily, uh, minimal.

PRO: We will likely be able to locate the hotel just fine, even in the midst of one of the biggest cities in the world

CON: Depending on wind direction, it will either smell of airplane exhaust or we will hear the music only between airliner take offs (Hey! Shades of Alexis Park at CES in Las Vegas, may she rest in peace).

OK, I exaggerate.

I think.

Just being a small town boy, myself, these big cities are both more intimidating and more exciting than they are for many people who are more used to them.

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 by Michael

The VTV Small High-end Audio Show

TRELJA did a great show report for the VTV Show last week in New Jersey:

TRELJA almost In New York, 2006

I always like Trelja’s show reports even though after reading them for a number of years I find I disagree with what he hears as often as not (we go to a lot of the same shows) – he at least says what he likes and doesn’t like and tries to explain why.

Anyway, we didn’t make it to this show and we really appreciate reading about what was there and what was not there. Well, we knew Audio Note was there because we carry Audio Note U.K., but really had no idea what else was going on – like the fact that there were about 20 rooms this year. There were about 60 in FSI 2006 in Montreal, about a 100 at RMAF 2005 in Denver, about 200-300 at CES 2006 in Las Vegas, and we expect about 70-80 at HE 2006 in Los Angeles.

Kind of helps to put things in perspective, size wise, by counting the number of hotel rooms occupied by exhibitors at the shows – although Montreal had a lot more stuff on static display (i.e. not plugged in) than is typical of the other shows, which should count towards overall size as well.

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