What Was Your First Audio Show?

[Tabl10s]

For me, it was Stereophile '93 in San Francisco. At the time, I'd only been in the hobby for less than three years and was a treat to see all the equipment and writer's that I had read about.

I remember seeing J. Gordon Holt pass by me as a tiny wisp of a man.

 

[mtemur]

Although I was in hobby since 1992 my first audio show was 2010 Munich.

 

[FDPDK]

Well my first show was local in my city, but at the same time it was then the biggest audio/highend show in Scandinavia .
Remember listening to som big Sonus Faber speakers as well as i think it was Krell amplifiers and Hans Theessink playing live.
It was a treat at that time to be able to listen to things that at that time i was only reading about.
Also remembering that Ole Kliffort was making a demo of the impact of cables... and its about 40 years ago !

 

[Salectric]

You guys are so young! My first hifi show was probably in Washington DC in the late 1960s when I was in high school, but the ones I recall most vividly were in Philadelphia in 1970-74 when I was in college. I remember talking to Bud Fried (IMF) about his transmission line speakers.

 

[Kal Rubinson]

You guys are so young!

You, too.

My first is, I am afraid, obscured by the clouds of memory but it was a NY HiFi Show some in the late '50s (or early '60s) at the Hotel New Yorker. Everything was new.

 

[BruceD]

IFA Berlin 1973--Grundig showed Holograhic Ballet TV transmission in the round--cool!--Braun white units, Phillips 212 TT. Geloso Wire recorders,
Beomaster 3000-wooo! Beat Club Bremen on the PA--ha!
Good Time,

BruceD

 

[gian60]

My first was in Milan in 1974,SIM,was the only one in Italy and enough big
Listened Magnepan Timpany,RTR,Klipshorn,Jbl 4343 with ML3,biggest Tannoy,ARC ,
That day started my big passion

 

[gian60]

In 1990 i flight to Chicago with friends for the Chicago show,was the biggest in Usa

 

[mtemur]

You, too.

My first is, I am afraid, obscured by the clouds of memory but it was a NY HiFi Show some in the late '50s (or early '60s) at the Hotel New Yorker. Everything was new.

If this trend continues I’m afraid somebody who attended the introduction of original Edison phonograph will be next.

 

[Kal Rubinson]

If this trend continues I’m afraid somebody who attended the introduction of original Edison phonograph will be next.

I missed that one.

 

[TonyW]

My first audio show was at McCormick s Place in Chicago- the 1989 CES. The high end audio gear was set up in the hotel across the street. Me and a buddy went to the show for the day. It was an amazing experience for me at the time. We visited CES where I got to see a demonstration of Sony’s HD TV. It was analog back then but truly amazing. Never thought I would have to wait 13 years to experience that in my own living room.
The hotel was full of gear on several floors. The most memorable event was in the ballroom. Four large electrostatic panels spread several feet apart with four large ARC amplifiers. In the center was a turntable and an ARC preamp. They played an orchestral piece and it was like I was the conductor standing in front of a real orchestra. 1:1 life size and I could pick out each instrument in the orchestra.
This is the day I also discovered PRAT. I didn’t know that term at the time but I heard dozens of different turntables and I recall some just sounded so good, the music flowed so natural while other turntables, not so much.
I recall lots of expensive cables on display and demonstration. I remember my buddy and I snickering at the idea of super expensive cables. Look at me now.
I count this as one of my best days. What an adventure.

 

[Robh3606]

I would have to say late 70's KEF 105?

Rob

 

[andromedaaudio]

You, too.

My first is, I am afraid, obscured by the clouds of memory but it was a NY HiFi Show some in the late '50s (or early '60s) at the Hotel New Yorker. Everything was new.

Now thats some hifi experience right there .

My first show was in 2002 somewhere

 

[Mike Lavigne]

Stereophile Show, Los Angeles, 1998. i knew no one.

had got serious about hifi in 1994.

Stereophile, and my local hifi dealer, Definitive Audio, were my go-to info sources. i owned Wilson Watt Puppy's, and Mark Levinson electronics. had just joined the local hifi club a couple years prior. was starting to meet local audiophiles.

pre-hifi on line forums. the next year there were news groups, then 1999-2000 you had Audiogon and Audio Asylum enter the picture. information sharing became common place, and the world opened up for a guy from Seattle.

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[gleeds]

CES, McCormick Place circa 1979, at the invite of my friend and mentor, Mike Kay of Lyric Hi-Fi. An experience I will never forget!

 

[Nemal1]

My first from memory was the Harrogate show around 1979 and was the largest in the Uk at the time, spread over 4 local hotels within walking distance of each other.

Remember very little (only in my early teens, it was my dads hobby) but there was early Beko and win labs turntables, tannoy, nakamichi and luxman laboratory reference series (he owned the preamp from that line)

 

[Hear Here]

My first hi-fi shows were at the Hotel Russell in Central London. These memorable shows ended in 1968, so my first visit was probably in 1965.

In those days, UK-built kit was amongst the world's finest and no sign of a "Made in Japan" sign, let alone China in sight!

 

[Don Reid]

I don't remember the name of the HIFi show, but it was in a hotel on Peahtree St. downtown in Atlanta in 1973. One of the most interesting things I heard was the Hartley 24" woofer.

 

[miniguy]

1958, Los Angeles, Biltmore hotel, I remember the new stereo demos by Audio Fidelity records and talking to Edgar Villchur about his new AR turntable, and Joe Grado about his MC carts.