Into T.H.E. Show's Home Stretch
Brooks Berdan Ltd. of Monrovia, CA eschewed the big stuff, and displayed, in two different rooms, "realistically priced Hi Fi Music Systems"
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Jason Victor Serinus
Nearing the End of T.H.E. Show
At one point, an attendee approached me in the hallway and said, "Is it just me, or are a lot of these rooms bright?"
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Hope Springs Eternal at T.H.E. Show
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
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Day Two at T.H.E. Show: Can the Glories Continue?
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?
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Honoring Richard Beers at T.H.E. Show
On the first night of the show, a standing-room-only assemblage of friends, associates, and supporters gathered in a huge, tented outdoor pavilion to bid adieu to Richard Lawrence Beers (July 26, 1949January 26, 2016), co-founder of The Home Entertainment Show.
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T.H.E. Show Newport: Can It Really Be This Good?
Was it really possible that so many excellent sounding rooms, both large and small, could be located on a single floor?
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T.H.E. Show Newport: The Going Keeps Going Good
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
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T.H.E. Show Newport's Amazing 2nd Floor
After the speakers totally disappeared, all that remained was truly glorious, open, clear, extremely seductive, and supremely musical sound
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T.H.E. Show Newport Really Opens
Press Day, Schmess Day. Some people were ready, some were not
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T.H.E. Show Newport Starts Friday!
T.H.E. Show Newport returns to its new venue at Hotel Irvine this FridaySunday, June 35, 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. . .
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