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27-10-2015, 09:25
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Hi all,

I wrote this whilst on the train at midnight on the way back from the What HiFi awards at the Hilton on Park lane so I hope it makes sense as the wine was flowing pretty freely through the whole evening which I am feeling the consequence of now I have to say :-)

Firstly a huge thank you to computers unlimited, who we buy our Audeze, Astell&Kern and Sonos products from for inviting me, I have to say that the thought of wearing a tux nearly put me off but I’m so glad it didn’t as it proved to be a great night, although I must say that some of the awards left a lot to be desired, but to be fair a lot of the products I had never heard of.

Anyway I just thought I would give a shout out to the brands that we do represent and would like to give them a big up on a night that was full of a sea of mediocrity, I hope that doesn’t make me sound like a snob but out of 104 awards we represent 5 winners, I’m sure our portfolio isn’t that bad :-)

Firstly a huge congratulations to Astell&Kern for winning best portable player with the AK JR, in fact they didn’t have any other competitors, that just shows how good the JR is, also a big up to Chord Electronics who won best Dac for Mojo, it should also be mentioned that Chord also won with the 2Qute and Hugo, a pretty awesome showing which I couldn’t be more elated with, also I would like to say congratulations to OPPO for winning with the HA-2.

Another huge category is best turntable, so congratulations must go to Rega for winning with the classic RP3, they have won this award 5 years running now, a pretty awesome achievement I have to say but very much deserved.

Finally congratulations must go to Naim for winning the readers award for Muso and Spendor for winning the best Floorstander at the £1200+ bracket for the excellent A6R, much deserved :-)

So that is 5 award winners that we deal with from 104 awards given in one hour, it just goes to show how big this industry is and what a small part we play, I would love to see the awards encompass the higher end, especially in the headphone arena but I do want to applaud What HiFi for putting on such a great evening and for championing Hifi in general even if I hadn’t heard of some of the brands and products, all in all a great night, thanks again to Computers Unlimited for taking me along and please feel free to come in and try some of the award winners at HFL and Highend Headphones.

Below are a few pics from the night -

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Well Done to Astell&Kern For the AK Jr

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Really Pleased For Chord as their DACS Really rule at the moment

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Well Done Rega, Again.

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Great news for Naim with Muso!

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Cheers,
Paul.