THE Entertainment Show Newport 2016 – Floor 11., as we all make our way down from the 14th floor on this virtual tour.
THE Entertainment Show Newport 2016 – Floors 13 and 12., as we make our way down from the 14th floor.
If you think you get dizzy watchng this, just think how it is for all us showgoers, getting lost and going around in circles because the hallways branch at weird angles and circle around and no two floors appear to have the same layout 😉
Virtual Tour of the high-end audio show held in Newport Beach, June 2016. On this floor is Audio Note and SOtM and several other rooms
Nordost, Merrill, Madisound, a whole list is forthcoming. Hopefully getting better at this. OJT here at ITS WORST 🙂
A virtual tour of THE Show happening now. Part 1… will be forthcoming. It was upside down and blurry. Noob here. 😉
[The image wasn’t showing up on some sites… so trying again ;-)]
Setting up the Acapella Cellini speakers and 2-shelf HRX SXR rack
Setting up the Acapella Cellini speakers and 2-shelf HRX SXR rack.
[The High Cellini speakers at CES]
We are showing with Acapella Audio Arts again this year, this time in Room 1005 in the tower.
Hermann Winters of Acapella likes to bring The Beast music server which, although not as good as the better digital front ends, is very convenient for an exhibitor [who traditionally play songs from different artists, one after the other, all day long].
Yes, it is horrific that Richard Beers passed away recently [the show organizer] but we were already setup to show, and so the show goes on…
Hope to see you all there!
June 3-5, theshownewport.com
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Room 1005, with Acapella
High Cellini speakers (white with grey horns, like CES) MSRP $55K
Acapella cables, HRS SXR equipment stand with M3 isolation bases
ReQuest The Beast music server
From Paste Magazine
Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Roger Waters, The Rolling Stones and The Who
Same location as Coachella
Officially called Desert Trip. October 7 – 9, 2016.
First concert I *really* wanted to go to in a long time. Tickets are sold out, of course [the analog world sucks at making room for everybody who wants to go to events].
Add Zeppelin and the Dead and you would have E-V-E-R-Ybody from that era – all the giants, together. Or what’s left of them, anyway.
*I* just heard about this a few days ago, … doh!
The consolidation in high-end audio always surprises me, though it often happens in markets that are under-going hardships.
Why are these corps doing this? Are they audiophiles? Are they just big dump corps? Are they just buying the companies for their brand names? Are they nuts???
[These are powerful brand names these two corps are picking up. If there is ever a rebound in this marketplace, or if they pivot the brands to sell something people really want, they will be poised to do well, I think.]
Gibson Guitar
Their brands now include:
TASCAM, Cerwin-Vega, Stanton, and Cakewalk, Onkyo, Integra, TEAC, and Esoteric plus Philips’ Home Entertainment “(now named Gibson Innovations)—a company that invented the cassette tape, the CD format, the DVD format and the MP3 format”.
When they bought Esoteric a few years ago, the deal also included distribution rights to French loudspeaker manufacturer, Cabasse, which Esoteric USA has been handling.
[Between Philips and Teac, they own the entire high-end transport manufacturing market AFAICT]
vs.
Italian Fine Sounds: McIntosh, Audio Research, Wadia Digital, and Sumiko (which handles distribution of Sonus Faber, Sumiko, REL subwoofers, and SME turntables and tonearms)
vs. little ole Harmon International:
Harmon: JBL, Lexicon, Mark Levinson and Revel.
