Jason Victor Serinus

At one point, an attendee approached me in the hallway and said, "Is it just me, or are a lot of these rooms bright?"

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…

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?

Was it really possible that so many excellent sounding rooms, both large and small, could be located on a single floor?

That so many of the 19 rooms I entered on the second floor of Hotel Irvine sounded really good is nothing short of a miracle…

Press Day, Schmess Day. Some people were ready, some were not…

T.H.E. Show Newport returns to its new venue at Hotel Irvine this Friday–Sunday, June 3–5, starting at 10am. By far the largest high-end consumer show on the West Coast of North America, T.H.E. Show promises 149 active exhibit rooms, with 19 of those big and even bigger than big rooms; 68 exhibit tables in the Marketplace and Marketplace foyer, including perhaps 16 headphone exhibitors in separate areas within the Marketplace. You can read the entire show guide here. . .