My wife and I were there today. I felt the rooms were too spread out and after being there 5 hours, my sciatica was killing me and we left. I got to meet quite a few of the industry professionals. Bob Carver was extremely gracious as was Sandy Gross. I thought most of the rooms sounded very good but the choice of music was terrible (IMHO).
We we went into the Lampizator room and when the person demoing saw I was wearing a Pink Floyd T shirt, he put on Welcome To The Machine. It sounded good but he played it so low that I couldn’t really enjoy it. We went into the Raidho room and heard the D5.1 speakers. No offense to anyone but they were playing Opera quite loud and my wife and I quickly left. John DeVore was extremely gracious and his room sounded fantastic.
I liked the show quite a bit and I wi she my legs weren’t killing me so we could have seen more. One disappointment was The Marketplace. There wasn’t a whole lot for sale there and all the vinyl was at full list. I thought they would be giving even a 10% discount. I had a wad of cash burning a hole in my pocket but all I bought was some stylus tip cleaner for 35.00. I was looking for the new David Gilmore “Live At Pompei” but it was already sold out. That was at 12:05 and the Show opened at 12. They must have sold them to the industry insiders.
Tomorrow, we start the 4 day trek for home. I can’t wait as after 2 weeks on the road I miss my bed, pillow and audio systems.
