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    I've just had a pleasant morning in Leamington Spa at the Audio Show 2018.

    Highlight of the show for me was a setup of Thoress amplifiers and a pair of Italian speakers. It was as though you could do a material comparison of strings they sounded so real. Lovely



    However, I think another important aspect of the show was how much excellent low budget equipment was on show. For example an interesting mini pre/power amplifier setup:



    There was a nice relaxed atmosphere, and generally lots of lovely sounding system. So a very enjoyable morning.

    Apologies for the quality of the photos (mobile phone snaps)
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    An unusual system was that shown by Living Sound which seemed to comprise 6 speakers, arranged asymmetrically and a dedicated studio recording technique. It sounded good, but not revolutionarily so as was being touted. The players did sound to be "in the room" but I've heard a lot of systems do the same, and the sort of music (string and Jazz quartets) tends to lend itself to that sort of delivery. So in summary a good sounding system, but not ground breaking in my opinion.

    And I should also mentioned, they seemed to be at the show looking for investors in the business rather than with a product to sell - which was unusual.
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    Another system I particularly enjoyed was demonstrated by Waterfall Audio. The glass speakers sounded good, with a nice clean sound with a lack of obvious cabinet colouration. The video of Nils Lofgren was particularly enjoyable.

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    I was also impressed with the Kerr Acoustic speakers being shown in a few rooms. The K320 seeming to hit a sweet spot of sounding excellent without having to mortgage the youngest child to afford them. Here are the smaller K300's in the Longdog Audio room (part of a very nice system)



    Sorry - that's a very poor photo.

    In Kerr's main room they had a system using a vintage Sony Pre-amp, and Pioneer stable platter CD player that sounded excellent. It was great to see so much affordable good quality Hi-Fi on show. It wasn't just esoteric stuff that I could never imagine being able to afford.
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    I can’t see your photos
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    Quote Originally Posted by YNWaN View Post
    I can’t see your photos
    Yep - all blank here too.
    I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in

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    Quote Originally Posted by YNWaN View Post
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    Bum. I'll update them now. .... OK - they should be visible now.
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    Anyone know which AudioNec speaker was there?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ReggieB View Post
    I've just had a pleasant morning in Leamington Spa at the Audio Show 2018.

    Highlight of the show for me was a setup of Thoress amplifiers and a pair of Italian speakers. It was as though you could do a material comparison of strings they sounded so real. Lovely



    However, I think another important aspect of the show was how much excellent low budget equipment was on show. For example an interesting mini pre/power amplifier setup:



    There was a nice relaxed atmosphere, and generally lots of lovely sounding system. So a very enjoyable morning.

    Apologies for the quality of the photos (mobile phone snaps)
    Didn't Arcaydis or a related company fold a few years ago in a pretty messy way.
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    Actually a bit of research shows they bought the rights to EB Acoustics and have gone some way to making amends for previous companies failings.

    https://www.pinkfishmedia.net/forum/...2#post-3349867
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