Bristol Show Report

Wonderful day spent with Martin, Mark, Stephen & Richard.

Pics as usual:






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My head hurts.......

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...where did I leave the bed.....

Night :SLEEP:

 

Rob, we are not interested in your mis-use of contact cleaning fluids.

What did you see? What did you hear?

 

Rob: That was the best show report by anyone, ever.

Brian: Plenty of 'proper' show stuff on yer PFM:

http://www.pinkfishmedia.net/forum/showthread.php?t=75073

 

rob, i wish i was there but i became a grandad, where is the guiness?

nando.

 

Hi Brian, nice to see you

Truth be told, as a veteran of these shows for over 25 years, the main reason for going is social as unless there on business and exhibiting, you just tend to see people reinventing the wheel.
They even book the same rooms year after year in which to do it.

The plan for our gang is to bomb around the show visiting a few rooms of interest then retire for cocktails and chatter in the excellent Severnshed bar/restaurant nearby.

There were one of two things of interest.
The Naim UniQute looks very impressive especially given the low cost and the usual high quality Naim build.
This to me is the true evolution of Julian's Nait 1 - shoebox amp with built in ability to handle digital sources. If the limited power isn't a problem it should suit many.

Martin and I had a long and interesting chat with Martin Colloms about mains pollution and for me that was worth more than seeing the same electronics as yesteryear in new cases.
He is working on an epic article discussing the deteriorating quality of UK mains and i'm looking forward to reading it in the next edition of Hi-Fi Critic. I'm of course quite sceptical of claims for mains wires and conditioners but Martin is looking at things from many different angles and he's got my interest - much to my surprise!

Nice also to chat with Paul Messenger and talk about ESL57 with some interesting new slate stands that extend the baffle area.
I'll report more when Paul sends me the details.

That was it really, so buy a UniQute and everyone please take a subscription to Critic and support a good quality, genuinely advertisement free audio publication.

Rob.

 

Congratulations Joseph!

This will do until we meet up - :beer:

 

Rob, great report (OP) .

 

I had the mains & cables chat with Martin Colloms too. It'll be an interesting read when published.

 

The best value at the show was Rega's 3 LPs for £10. What amused me about this was that one of the albums was Nic Jones - Penguin Eggs which was selling in the vinyl boutiques downstairs for c. £20+.

But the cocktails and chat at the SevernShed afterwards were the highlight.

Thanks to Martin, Rob, Steve and Richard.

 

Yes!
...next year we'll just skip the show and make -up our impressions of it from the bar

 

If I take up drinking, I'll join you.