AXPONA or T.H.E. Newport?

I attended AXPONA last year and will attend this April as well. I found it to
be a very well laid out and easily accessible.

I was able to meet and ask questions directly to many of my favorite
designers and engineers in the audio world. The seminars are informative
and I was able to listen to my own music in almost every room I attended. If
the room and the system sounded good and I thought it was a system that I
could see myself owning I asked the host to play some of my personal
selections. This gave me a idea of how their system compares to my own.

I highly recommend going to this years AXPONA. It well be in a larger
venue and several extra activities including "Live"" music
in the evenings have been added to the schedule.You'll meet a lot of new
people and maybe make some friends along the way.

Thanks Tom.

I'm sure it's a great experience, as all the regional shows tend to be. I'm interested to know if AXPONA is small, like the CAS or DC shows, or if it is in the same league as Newport. I'm sure it's not as big as RMAF, of course.

It was a pretty large show last year and I think will be bigger this year. Last year many folks more experienced with audio shows said that the rooms sounded uncommonly good for a show. Possibly because the show organizers offer room treatments to the exhibitors?

Very little gear that I wanted to hear that wasn't at the Chicago show. A great experience.

Check out who will be demonstrating there. Looks to be quite an impressive field. Demo's Seminars, Music Sales, Auction.

http://www.axpona.com/default.asp

The rooms did sound extremely good last year. I was fortunate enough to meet and introduce myself to the men who created most of my components, very cool!

I brought back a lot of new music too, (LP's, CD's and SACD's).

Let's have a beer together!

Axpona was very good least year, and I'm expecting it to be even better this year. The rooms are a bit larger than your typical hotel room, so they sound a bit better as well. That gives attendees a better chance to hear what the systems can really do.

This year JD Events purchased Axpona and has been marketing it aggressively. They also have more exhibitors than last year. The only downside to last year from a visitors perspective was that the show was packed, our room was literally standing room only all weekend. If it's like that this year, talk to the exhibitors in the rooms you want to investigate further, and they'll likely do quiet after-hours demos for you.