Royal Ascot HiFi Show

[hard1175]

Did any members attend the show.
I went on Saturday a very low turn out due to the bad weather,
I must say I was very disappointed with the show. The set up of the show in general and the demonstration rooms.
This was the first visit to the Ascot show and the last.

[walpurgis]

Moved from Welcome area to Blank Canvas section.

[Beobloke]

Did any members attend the show.
I went on Saturday a very low turn out due to the bad weather,
I must say I was very disappointed with the show. The set up of the show in general and the demonstration rooms.
This was the first visit to the Ascot show and the last.

Could you expand more on what you didn't like? I'm not trying to stir or anything but as it was the first time a show has been held at a venue like this, I'm interested in any feedback I can pass onto the Hi-Fi News organisation team - good or bad!

[hard1175]

I felt that the show was very disjointed no flow to the rooms.
There also seemed to be a lot of static displays where rooms could have been used to demonstrate the equipment.
Their was a lack of accessories stalls just two record stalls and a Cord cable display.
Compared to what was at the Windsor shows.
Hopefully this will improve for next years show.

[AJSki2fly]

I was considering going with a friend who live only 40 mins away, but other stuff got in the way. I had a look at the pictures and what struck me most was the fact that nearly all the equipment looks to be high end and probably pretty expensive.

It seems that not a lot has changed in 30 years since I last went to a HiFi show in Southampton. All the rooms then were stocked by dealers or manufacturers touting the more expensive end of their equipment and seemed to be trying to outdo each other. All a bit disappointing for your average punter with a low to mid range budget. Maybe I am missing something but I don’t get it, or is it that they are aiming at the older music buff who has too much money from over from pension etc.

[Spectral Morn]

I watched Analogue Planets coverage on you tube and I felt it looked poor compared to the early NAS shows, which I enjoyed a lot. The NAS shows now look to be pale shadows of their former majesty, havent been in five years to any mainland shows as costs had got crazy.

Surprised News is allowing anyone other than their own to cover it. Got a very strong sense at the beginning of these that PM wanted to protect and make coverage exclusive to them. I think for myself if I was to put money into covering another show it would be Munich not a UK mainland show.

[WESTLOWER]

I was considering going with a friend who live only 40 mins away, but other stuff got in the way. I had a look at the pictures and what struck me most was the fact that nearly all the equipment looks to be high end and probably pretty expensive.

It seems that not a lot has changed in 30 years since I last went to a HiFi show in Southampton. All the rooms then were stocked by dealers or manufacturers touting the more expensive end of their equipment and seemed to be trying to outdo each other. All a bit disappointing for your average punter with a low to mid range budget. Maybe I am missing something but I don’t get it, or is it that they are aiming at the older music buff who has too much money from over from pension etc.

Personally, I would hesitate putting any negativity on the show if I didn't attend, seems a tad unfair to judge it by a few uploaded pictures.

Sorry, there was plenty of gear at ALL price points.
Obviously the nature of these shows is the show case element, so it's understandable that they prominently show the best.
But as I said, there was plenty of 'affordable' kit.
I'm not particularly old or wealthy so I understand the category you are referring to.

Michael Fremer gave a decent (long) round up of the show and he makes an effort to touch on 'affordable' kit..
But I guess 'affordable' is subjective.

[AJSki2fly]

Personally, I would hesitate putting any negativity on the show if I didn't attend, seems a tad unfair to judge it by a few uploaded pictures.

Sorry, there was plenty of gear at ALL price points.
Obviously the nature of these shows is the show case element, so it's understandable that they prominently show the best.
But as I said, there was plenty of 'affordable' kit.
I'm not particularly old or wealthy so I understand the category you are referring to.

Michael Fremer gave a decent (long) round up of the show and he makes an effort to touch on 'affordable' kit..
But I guess 'affordable' is subjective.

I was offering an observation on what I saw from not a few but quite a lot of photos, and what was written about the show, and as I said it reminded me of a similar approach at a show 30 years ago. As for affordability it is down to size of pocket and what you as a n individual choose to spend your money on, however comparing prices 35 years ago to now a reasonable hifi system TT, amp and speaker you would expect to pay around £1k, taking inflation into account that would now be around £8-10k, however it does seem to me that a great deal of the hifi components today are now pushing well beyond that level. Which is possibly reflected at the show.

[jandl100]

I didn't go but there's a quite positive write up from Hifi Pig webzine.

https://hifipig.com/uk-hifi-show-liv...t-show-report/

"Overall, this is the best UK hifi show I have ever attended".
Well, I'm not sure you can much more positive than that!

From the photos in that report it certainly looks impressive.

[User211]

Meant to go forgot about it.

That said I've heard nearly all of it before many times... but I do like a show.