New York HiFi Show: Tubes and Turntables

I also attended the NY AV show last weekend.  Bought a 3 day ticket, booked a hotel and drove up from South Jersey.  Probably the biggest waste of time and money I can remember.  I took me about three hours to hit every room.  The sound was generally mediocre (except for the Legacy and the Martin Logan rooms) and the number of exhibitors was small.  I always hope tp purchase a little something (LPs or budget equipment) at a “show marketplace” but even that was limited to two or three exhibitors.  Even the Westchester, NY show from several year ago was better.

I don’t think I’ll be returning to the NY show as long as this group is running it.  How can you have a high-end audio show in Manhattan that is smaller and less interesting than other shows in smaller venues?

I always felt that it was cost prohibitive for me to travel to Denver or Chicago to attend the better shows, but I may have to re-think that after this.  

BTW, I like Whart’s idea of a NY Audio Day, which would be great for consumers and increase traffic into the stores.  A nice spring weekend would be great!  (NY was freezing last weekend!!!!)

@asvjerry, thank you for your insight.

Ohm did have a room at the show. They earned my WORST OF SHOW award going away

I was at the show on Sunday and was disappointed, although not surprised, by the small number of exhibitors and rooms. Evidently the high cost of staging a show in NYC is a major obstacle to attracting many manufacturers and retailers, and even many mainstays of the past several shows were absent this year.  That being said, I thought there were several good sounding rooms, including Audio Note, LTA/Rethm, Triangle Art/Egglestonworks, Pure Audio Project, Alta Audio, AVM/Harbeth, and Luxman/Triangle, which made it a worthwhile experience for me...

In Volti Audio's newsletter from last years show (volume 37) , Greg Robert's says he will never go to NY as long as the Chester Group is putting on the show. 

trelja, well...*G*  Just shows to go ya'....

One can't please everyone....and if you could, you probably would hate it and what you'd be doing to do so.  IMHO....