Please, everyone, show goers as well as exhibitors, you are welcome to submit your room equipment details and whatever other comments along with the Photo ID number of the picture the comments are associated with. Either post it to the blog or email us directly. Some exhbitors have helped us out with equipment details in previous reports and we are happy to post equipment lists. Commentary in the past has only been Neli’s and mine… but we are willing to try something new (other people’s comments will be clearly marked).

To determine a photo ID number right click on the picture(s) of the room’s picture in Internet Explorer and select Properties from the menu. The photo ID number is the “IMG_xxxx” number at the end of the Adress (URL).

Our show reports focus on sound and pictures. The names of equipment and their prices is of lessor priority to us (we consider it to be more or less brochureware) – but many of our guests do enjoy that stuff too.

Thanks,
Mike.

“The Music’s over. Turn out the lights.”

The truth is even more bizarre than just ‘lights out’.

We woke up this morning, packed up, and left Montreal for home. As we left, we glanced into the rooms and hallways that for the last 3 days contained Brinkmanns and Kharmas and ELACs and 100s of avid audiophiles – playing all kinds of wonderful music – now sitting stark quiet, empty, and with beds and dressers looking for all intents and purposes like empty hallways and ordinary hotel rooms. Shoulda taken a photo just to show you all just how weird and dead things looked – but we were packed and it was time to ‘vacate the premises’.

The show report should be done in a few days, …we hope. We took 2400 photos (13 CDROMs worth), about the same as for CES 2006, but this show was, I *guestimate*, only about 1/3 the size of CES. So hopefully we will be able to go into more depth on a room by room basis.

We’ll see.,,,

Yesterday I used the 50mm f1.4 lens for shooting for most of the day. It is a pain to have to stand accorss the room to take pictures with the thing – but when a picture is taken with it, correctly I mean, it is amazingly sharp and just stands out of the monitor like it was ‘real’ or something.

A good number of those 50mm pictures were a little too dark – I am still learning to use that lens (well, the camera too. I really am an avid audiophile with the desire to take pictures of what I think is really cool and beautful – but little skill at this point). But some look pretty good…

Spent too much time at diner at the La Baguette D’ivoire ‘Fine Asian Cuisine’ about 5 blocks from the hotel. Very good mix of Thai and Vietnamese and Chinese. Yummy. No website, (514) 932-7099.

Got back at midnight and had time to process and put up only a few new pictures on Day Two’s dailies. Try to put some more up now….