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What. A. Show!

Just got home ten minutes ago from Seattle. The most intense thing I've done since I went to the European Triode Festival in 2004. At least I didn't have to fly to Zurich this time ... only a 2.5 hour flight to SeaTac, and quick trip in the hotel bus. But man, the SIZE of the concourses in Denver ... combined with THREE gate changes.

Lots of fun meeting people at the show, and there were three or four really outstanding rooms, including [blush] our own. The Spatial team are great people and thoroughly professional, and several pre-orders are coming in. I have a feeling several vendors will be using a flight of Ravens and Blackbirds in their rooms next year.

Yes, it was fun!  As Lynn said, there were 3 or 4 outstanding rooms and we had one of them.   It was a scramble taming the room and the internet connection on setup day, well into the late evening.  But we got it!   I would say the system was very much on song except for image height and width and that was totally limited by the small room.  But depth was very good and tonality was unaffected.   Hope a few more folks that stopped by will give others an unbiased opinion on this thread as they get home.

I stopped by, and it was the only room I was made to feel totally unwelcome. Someone on the way in basically told me to get out there's a reviewer. Inside there was one guy sitting down being lectured about how great blah blah blah. I was totally ignored. Asked if we could hear some music? Got a glare and a terse "in a minute" then back to being ignored. Another guy I trust managed somehow to hear it, said it was okay. Only room all weekend actually refused to play music and treat attendees rudely. 

You want my unbiased view on this thread? Never seen one so dedicated to shilling allowed to go on and on. Free advertising. Must be nice.

Wow... It's really unfortunate that you had that experience and was certainly not how I was treated and I'm just a nobody.  I stopped by 3 times across the day on Friday and while the room was quite full each time.  However, I did introduce myself to Don and had a quite nice conversation.  Shill, not really sure what that really means but I get the implication and at least for me incorrect. 

I’m truly sorry you had that experience. The staff in the (fairly small) room rotated between Don, myself, and the four younger people at Spatial. (Don and I were the obvious old farts.) The Spatial people were manning the room (with a nonstop 4-hour playlist+personal requests) and Don and I were there to explain the electronics, tell various origin stories, and provide comic relief.

Reviewers popped in and out, and the famous Amir from ASR even showed up for a minute or two. Crowds came in surges, particularly on Saturday, when it was jam-packed. I was not aware that anyone had emptied the room for a reviewer, that’s certainly not what I saw when I was there. They had to take their chances like anyone else. There might have been special cases after 6PM, with private showings arranged in advance, but after-6 was mostly Social Hour for the exhibitors ... for example, I dragged all of the Spatial staff and Don to hear the Songer/Whammerdyne room, just down the hall from us. I’ve been old friends with Matt Kamna, the designer of the Whammerdyne 2A3 amplifier, so that was my after-hours excuse to get them to open the door ... "hey, here’s all my friends, can we listen for a while?" ... kind of thing.

I don’t know who the Famous Name Reviewer was. I wasn’t aware of anyone dropping by, much less closing the room for them. Our plan is to build a customer base (that’s you, folks) before we let any product get formally reviewed by the magazine or YouTube reviewer. Speaking only for myself, we’d like the Big Guns to give us a little breathing room, while we get the production machine going.

Don and I already have market identities ... we’ve been doing our respective things for thirty-plus years, with our names attached to what we do. We don’t need to build something that’s already there. So I’m not in a hurry ... at all ... to get in a review queue. People have heard about the Karna since 2003, well, here it is, in a room that’s about half the size of my living room, so please make allowances.