I’ll be covering High-End Munich next month so took it a bit easier at AXPONA 2019. There were over 180 (!!) listening rooms – therefore impossible to cover everything. Foot traffic felt a little bit tamer from last year – supposedly due to a Star Wars Celebration in the city. As always we had such a great time enjoying the concerts, grabbing drinks, and making some new friends.
Fortunately, some of the listening rooms had similar components as AXPONA 2018 – so we made an effort to see if we could uncover a few new gems. There were a few standout rooms I’ll cover soon in the Show Awards (hopefully before Munich).
One fun experiment I did was go back-to-back from a sub-$5,000 system to a $50,000 system, to a $100,000 system. Obviously, there’s no way to properly evaluate gear at these shows – that could only be done in isolation. My goal was to find out if there were any general subjective commonalities.
What I learned:
Anyway, just quick observations on my part. Nothing is ever so black and white in audio – or in life.
Big thanks go out to our guest reviewer, Steve J, for taking the photos. I’ll be posting 4K videos soon. If you haven’t done so already, subscribe to our channel. I’ll be shifting to more video-based reviews.
I’ll be flying out to Taiwan in a few days and flying back out of LAX again for High-End Munich. If you know any good HiFi spots in Taipei, let me know in the comments.
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You were busy at this show, Jay. What a masterful job you did of capturing Axpona 2019 in photos. I compliment you on your effort and your results. Thanks for sharing. We appreciate the photo coverage you provided of the Parasound/Buchardt Audio room, #729.
Many thanks,
Phil
Much appreciated Phil! You had a wonderful room.