Day Two at T.H.E. Show: Can the Glories Continue?
Only one question followed me to the 14th floor of Hotel Irvine: Will floor 2's unprecedented number of good-sounding rooms be repeated on other floors during T.H.E. Show Newport?
First Public Day at T.H.E. Show Newport
Silverline Audio's tiny SR7 loudspeaker punches above its weight
Honoring Richard Beers at T.H.E. Show
On the first night of the show, a standing-room-only assemblage of friends, associates, and supporters gathered in a huge, tented outdoor pavilion to bid adieu to Richard Lawrence Beers (July 26, 1949January 26, 2016), co-founder of The Home Entertainment Show.
Hope Springs Eternal at T.H.E. Show
I've included the long view of this room to demonstrate the lengths to which Ocean Way Audio's Allen Sides, in partnership with Viola Labs, went to achieve reference quality sound at T.H.E. Show
Into T.H.E. Show's Home Stretch
Brooks Berdan Ltd. of Monrovia, CA eschewed the big stuff, and displayed, in two different rooms, "realistically priced Hi Fi Music Systems"
JA's Day at T.H.E. Show 2016
My beat at T.H.E. Show 2016 was the ground floor. En route to the audio exhibits, I was stopped dead in my tracks by this beautiful black Bugatti. No information on this particular car was available, but I assumed it was part of the display of tasty automobiles in the Hotel Irvine's lobby and outdoors pavilion, put on by Reus Car Audio Design, Whitledge Design, Wyred 4 Sound, Magnum Automotive Design, and The Source Audio Video Design Group. Pride of place in the car exhibit was Sony's Hi-Res Audio demo vehicle, which had been shown off two days earlier at the Capitol Studios event in Hollywood.
More from T.H.E. Show: Sasha Matson's Day Three (Part One)
There's more than one way to skin a cata profusion of ways to hook together audio components in the high-end world of todayand my hunch is that the number of dedicated cabling companies has increased within the past decade, and now exceeds that of any other audio-hardware category.
Nearing the End of T.H.E. Show
At one point, an attendee approached me in the hallway and said, "Is it just me, or are a lot of these rooms bright?"
Sasha at T.H.E. Show, Part Two
During the second part of my first day at T.H.E. Show, I paid a visit to the Hotel Irvine's Woodbridge Rooma poetic name that gelled with the quality of the gear on display
Sasha Matson at T.H.E. Show Newport, Part One
Stereophile Editor John Atkinson and I drove down from deepest Hollywood to arrive at T.H.E. Show Newport late on Thursday night, in time for the public opening the following morning