North West Audio Show Cranage 2022

That bricks room was shite, he didn't even have the decency to play it quietly. That's the 2nd worst sound Ive ever heard at a show. I've heard 6 pack bricks sound majestic before.

Just spotted this comment concerning that particular room

"I liked Simon Hamnett's Isobraics / Naim / Avondale room for scale and finesse across the range."

Now I am sorry, are we talking about the same sound?, yes we all hear and like different things BUT really?

Good Grief, ebay wankerism gone bonkers!

one too many zeros on the price of the amps, two too many zeros on the price of the speakers.

Yeah, as Macca suggested afterward, the standmount part would be more than enough for most normal rooms. They really were extraordinary. The set up was demo'd for us using a track by Mongolian throat singing Metal band The Hu. Find one of their songs on the You Tube, play loud, and understand why alarms were going off in the car park 

AA?

Is that us?

Oh ok. 👍

I have just had an interesting conversation with a couple of dealers regarding the WT&TP syndrome its not just a northern trait in any way.
Which back in the days of LP12's being touted as a quality deck and a nait2 was seen a class leading and 'Kan's were a staple in any self-respecting ' audiophiles' arsenal it was fine. Now time moves on, both with our musical choices and equipment. What we may have at the top of our must have sound traits when we started out is very different from today.

I did spend time in around 20+ rooms at the show so I could grasp more about what those visitors were interested in sound wise and why, regardless of whether the equipment on show was liked or not. Personal preferences were excluded as this was a fact-finding mission.

Generally, the standard of sound was good in most rooms, a few examples of grimness were on show, but for the most part it was of a decent standard.

Three rooms stood out for me for producing a quality all round listenable sound, one expensive two at reachable cost. Three rooms quite frankly should be honed to fabricate sonic weapons of mass destruction shite wis to good a word to use.

The bottom line though after reading a great deal of on-line feedback from many different reports across many different platforms are these:

1. I am completely deaf in both ears, I have zero concept of a cohesive sounding articlate sounding system and that bleeding edge treble is a god given right, the more exciting the sound the better it is.

2. To many customers 'purchase' with their eyes no question.

3. Demonstrating to people a different perspective on sound in a genuine non pressured way is way more helpful than being ' Tune dem'd'

4 No matter style/type of sound your prefer when you listen to something that is intrinsically correct the majority of the listeners are in agreement

Go on, I'll ask

What was the worse?

I remember that system with the Albarry amps. I had not heard any Albarry kit so was interested to cop a listen.

I came to the very same conclusions and thought wtf? How can they think this is anywhere approaching good?

Not just you, no. Even I remember that room with the Albarry amps, and my memory is really bad. They always got great reviews and I really expected them to be special. That set up ruined Albarry for me.