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![[SOUNDSTAGE! LIVE]](../covers/ssmainlive.gif) The Best in Online Trade Show Reporting SoundStage! People and Places the Show
If YOU try to take YOUR own picture, YOUR head will look like this too. Doug Schneider with arms stretched and camera in hand photographs himself along with Stereophile's Web-Master Jon Iverson (center) and Barry Willis (right).
Well known mail-order retailer Audio Advisor was set up for business at the show and was consistently bustling with activity. Advisor is tremendously innovative when it comes to providing their customers with service. At the show they had fax service for taking any orders from their extensive catalogue and had the product shipped directly to their customers' homes! They even had author Robert Harley (Technical Editor of Fi magazine) on hand at the booth promoting and signing his book The Complete Guide to High-End Audio.
Kevin Lee (left) and Jack Rubinson (right) of Nova Audio are shown with the entire line of Nova speakers (less the nearly $30K flagship). Look for Marc Mickelson's review of the Rendition (speaker on far right) in the July SoundStage! issue.
Robert Stein (r) of Ultra Systems/The Cable Company takes a short break during the first comsumer show day to show off -- well, a whole lot of cables! Their annual demo cable blow-out is a popular attraction for show-goers.
Trevor de Maat is the U.S. distributor for Kharma loudspeakers. Kharma makes speakers ranging from about $2,000 (that's the one above) all the way up to $60,000.
Stereophile magazine's Jonathan Scull (l) contemplates the weight of Monster Cable's massive new product announcement while wife/photographer Kathleen defends herself against the camera of SoundStager Doug Blackburn and another member of the press in a quick-draw challenge.
John Upton (r), SoundStage! contributor and author of the extremely popular SoundStage! article Tu-Be or Not Tu-Be article is caught with Kevin Deal of Upscale Audio (interviewee in that same article).
Stereophile held an annual press luncheon. Above, Stereophile's Larry Archibald addresses the crowd. As most already know, Archibald, former Publisher of Stereophile, recently sold the magazine to Pederson Publishing. Archibald and well-known Stereophile Editor John Atkinson will still be involved with the magazine in the years to come.
Hales Loudspeakers had plenty of product on display. Above Doug Schneider is with designer Paul Hales. Look for Greg Weaver's review of the Revelation 1 loudspeaker in an upcoming SoundStage! issue.
DCC manufacturers some of the finest sounding CDs in the biz. The talent behind many of these great sounding discs? Recording engineer Steve Hoffman (center) takes a painstaking approach to ensuring the best sound ends up on the final product. Steve is shown here with the rest of the SoundStage! crew (Duvall in red shirt, Schneider in white shirt, and Upton on far right), all of who heaped praise on him for the work he's done.
Publisher Doug Schneider is shown with George and Colleen Cardas. Once again Cardas products were used in many of the fine displays at the show.
The friendly ladies at Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, Karen Thomas and Jane Kneer, were once again 'manning' the booth with special show deals on all their CD and LP products. Mobile Fidelity is also one of the supporters for Sony's new DSD (Direct Streaming Digital) technology which is a new digital audio format being proposed to take Digital Sound to the next level of quality while maintaining compatibility with existing CD players by having 2 layers... one playable on new DSD players while the other layer plays just like normal CDs on existing players. This new format will have complete backward compatibility with today's CD technology. |
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