Axpona 2015 - Best...and not so best of....

thanks for the show report and the effort. if you'd like some constructive criticism--and I very well might be in the minority--but I think the high end needs to market itself more effectively to younger people and you could use your platform to do it more.

As you can see we reach a wide age demographic. We have more under the age of 44 than over!

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Peter - that's very interesting. I would suspect the headphone crowd helps those demographic numbers. Also, in one of the rooms, I was pleasantly surprised to have sat beside two lovely ladies who were hard core audiophiles. They told me they were both single professionals and loved music. We discussed their gear (all top drawer stuff) and what their plans were for system improvements. They were very impressed with the Resolution Acoustics room and both were seeking better ways to treat their rooms.
 
That's really great Peter. I would have never guessed that by looking down the halls at shows.

my guess is more like a lot of older audiophiles don't use the internet as much as younger ones, which skews the distribution.

i think the subject material could have also been more representative of a younger audiophile and having a John Darko type on the panel would have reached a broader audience. again, this is just my opinion and could be worth a grain of salt. I do enjoy Peter's enthusiasm which comes through wonderfully on camera.
 
LoL

Your profession is showing. PhillipAC from ACircle though retired is also from the same profession.

Yea. I have spent my life understanding data and making sure it is used in a manner consistent with how it is gathered.
 
That's really great Peter. I would have never guessed that by looking down the halls at shows.

Me too! I haven't seen as many walkers and canes like I saw at Axpona 2015 since the last time I went to a Steely Dan concert. :lol:
 
Actually there's been a change in delivery - and unlike most reviews - for the better. Nick's coming by Wed. to drop the 3.0 phono stage off. :congrats:
 
My least favorite rooms were the Martin Logan. Every ML room we went into sounded bright. I don't know if it was the music, room acoustics or the gear. Even my friends that were with me complained about the ML's sounding bright.

The Quad room was also a disappointment. I had never heard Quad's before and they were not my cup of tea and that's coming from a Maggie owner.
 
It asked me for my age range when I purchased my tickets on line. Glad to see I helped bring down the average age a bit :)

No headphones for me either

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Actually there's been a change in delivery - and unlike most reviews - for the better. Nick's coming by Wed. to drop the 3.0 phono stage off. :congrats:

Great Myles. I think I win the prize for asking you the most times when you where going to get it in. Looking forward to your thoughts.
 
Myles,

What did you think of the High Water Sound room? I believe Jeffrey was utilizing the Audia Flight amplifiers with Verity speakers, TW Acustic Raven GT SE table and Tron phono stage.
Jeff had no Tron this time. The phono stage was a 3 input soon to be remote controllable, by TW Acustic for $14k.
 
Peter - that's very interesting. I would suspect the headphone crowd helps those demographic numbers. Also, in one of the rooms, I was pleasantly surprised to have sat beside two lovely ladies who were hard core audiophiles. They told me they were both single professionals and loved music. We discussed their gear (all top drawer stuff) and what their plans were for system improvements. They were very impressed with the Resolution Acoustics room and both were seeking better ways to treat their rooms.

Did you tell them to come here to post? More ladies here can only "class up the joint". LoL. Seriously, they sound hard core and could have a lot to contribute.
 
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