Munich High End show 2018

[jandl100]

I guess I think life should be fun. not drab.

You want drab? Fine, fillyer boots!

I think those D'Aggie amps look fun.
If they were £2k I'd be having a listen.

[Marco]

Do you wear a lab coat when you settle down to listen?

Doncha believe it - and nothing else either - and he looks HOT!

[Only kidding...maybe]

Marco.

[montesquieu]

From my experience last year it was clear that Munich is no place for the faint of heart or those attached to Audio Note badger-bashed approaches to visual styling.

One of its the show's main functions is as a forum for relieving Europe's nouveau riche of dollops of their not very hard-earned ... I'm sure some people who buy this stuff don't particularly care what it sounds like so long as it's flash enough to match the rest of their designer decor and has a price tag with suitable bragging rights. Dan probably only needs to sell or two of these systems for every few dozen boring old Krells and that's another Ferrari in the garage.

[George47]

I llke Martin's point of view. We could do with more "inverse snobbery" in Hi-Fi, I'm in favour of that. That's why I avoid buying silver or 'champagne' coloured equipment, black or grey is the way to go, matt finish even better. Makers like Line Magnetic lead the way. Good Hi-Fi should not look out of place in a boiler room!! So there!!!

More Power Igor!!!

[bigmoog]

I like aspirational items. Munich is the finest Hifi Show and I enjoy the coverage.

Am especially drooling over the new K-tell spartacus turntable (the one with triple counter rotational platters made from pure californium coated rubber)..and the new Gilson GLAMM.....oh! and the that cartridge made from tooth enamel with a (rocking) horse hair cantilever (dual mono)...only $69

[Marco]

I guess I think life should be fun. not drab.

We're bang on the same page there [fun, for me, is what life's all about], *BUT*, in terms of hi-fi equipment, the "fun" should derive from how it sounds, and by the HUGE GRIN it puts on your chops, when listening to your favourite music; not how it looks!

Some might say my modified Mercedes looks somewhat 'drab' (it's all-black 'n' mean, and totally devoid of bling), but when you drive it, 'drab' it ain't... And so it should be with hi-fi: the fun factor should come from the listening experience, when you 'take it for a spin' with your fav choons!!



Marco.

[jandl100]

I like it when it looks fun as well as sounds fun.

[walpurgis]

I like it when it looks fun as well.

I know a girl like that!

[Marco]

Hi Tom,

One of its the show's main functions is as a forum for relieving Europe's nouveau riche of dollops of their not very hard-earned ... I'm sure some people who buy this stuff don't particularly care what it sounds like so long as it's flash enough to match the rest of their designer decor and has a price tag with suitable bragging rights.

Now if some crass idiot, with more money than sense, wants to spunk his 'hard-earned' on blingy badge-fi, which looks much better than it sounds, then that's entirely up to him (or her), but surely what you've written above defeats the whole point of what HIGH FIDELITY is supposed to be about, i.e. reproducing the closest thing to the original sound...??

And therefore, by definition, SOUND QUALITY should *always* matter more than looks??

Whilst no doubt going to Munich, with a few of the lads, is a veritable jolly jape, and tons of fun [guzzling gallons of beer, 'exploring' skanky fräuleins, whatever], but what you've just written is *precisely* why I've stopped going to hi-fi shows, as most of them are full of the kit you describe, aimed at the sort of materialistic tossers I'd take great steps to avoid in real life!!

The day when hi-fi shows return to catering for the genuine enthusiast, who cares more about what's under the hood of the equipment he uses, than what it's 'dressed in', is that day when I might go back.

Marco.

[Marco]

I like it when it looks fun as well as sounds fun.

Well, your idea of "fun", in that respect, is rather different from mine

"Fun" to me, in that respect, is when it looks a bit NUTS/BONKERS, as in the kit MEANS BUSINESS, in a rather naughty way - not when hi-fi is prettified to fuck.

Marco.