Come And See Us At The National Audio Show and Get 10% Off PMC, Bryston and Heed!

[HiFi Lounge]

Hi Everyone,

It gives me great pleasure to announce that in conjunction with PMC Speakers, Heed Audio and Bryston, HiFi Lounge will be showing at the National Audio show at Whittlebury Hall on September 21st and 22nd.

This is certainly going to be an interesting one as I have never done anything like this before, although I have been to a lot of HiFi Shows over the years, but not in my widest dreams did I ever think I would be exhibiting at one.

We will be in room S5 on the ground floor and will be showcasing the PMC Fact.12’s with a full Bryston rig comprising of a pair of 7B SST2’s, the SP3 Processor, and the BDP-2 media player and BDA-2 DAC combo. We will be rotating this system with a Heed Audio/PMC rig which will include the PMC twenty.23’s and the Heed Obelisk Si integrated amp with the X2 power supply and Heed DAC, so showing 2 fantastic sounding systems at very different price points. Just thinking about it I will try and squeeze the Bryston BHA-1 headphone amp in as well with a selection of High End Headphones

So if you are already planning to go to the National Audio show it would be great if you would like to pop in and say hi, I’m sure we can get the room sounding pretty decent, and if you weren’t planning on going I would really recommend it as it is a proper HiFi Show unlike, Bristol which is mixed with a lot of AV. Myself and Wendy went last year, we were only planning on going for one day but it was so much fun we went back on the Sunday and still didn’t get round to seeing it all. It really is mad to think that last year we went as punters, this year we are going to be exhibitors, it’s a mad world

Also for the show weekend only we are offering 10% off any PMC Speakers, Heed Audio or Bryston electronics along with Atlas cables that we will be using at the show to hook everything up, so it is a good opportunity to save a few pounds.

Please pop along to the National Audio Show’s website for more information and hope to see you there -

http://www.chestergroup.org/nationalaudioshow

Cheers,

Paul.

 

[HiFi Lounge]

Hi Everyone,

Just a quick update, Really busy at the moment planning next weekends HiFi Lounge showing at the National Audio Show in association with PMC speakers, Heed Audio and Bryston, in a moment of madness we have decided to now take on a room that is 4 times bigger than what we originally planned, which is slightly scary, but equally exciting, especially as it will really give the 2 systems that we are planning on running a real chance to sing.

We will now be situated in the Vale Suite on the first floor showcasing the awesome new PMC Fact.12’s driven by a full Bryston rig with 600 watts per channel and the more modest Heed si amp with x2 power supply and PMC 23’s which will sound equally as impressive considering the more modest price.

So next week looks like a busy one, what with van rentals to organise + pulling the HiFi Lounge demo rooms to pieces to move a lot of our demo stock over the Whittlebury hall for the show.

Being HiFi Lounge’s first show I am equally as nervous as I am excited so hope to see some of you guys there for what promises to be a lot of fun

Oh yeah, don’t forget that we are also offering 10% off any PMC speakers, Heed Audio or Bryston Kit purchased at the show or until the end of the month if you come and say hi and what with PMC Golden ticket promotion meaning you could actually get a pair of PMC Twenty speakers for free if bought before the end of October, so it really is a great time to come and have a listen.

Anyway see you at the National Audio Show

Cheers,

Paul.

 

[HiFi Lounge]

Hi Everyone,

Well there are only 2 days to go now before I up sticks and move a lot of HiFi lounge over to Whittlebury Hall for the National Audio Show this weekend, I really can’t wait. I spent last night pulling out all the boxes needed to take everything over safely, it is amazing how many empty boxes you end up with when you run a hifi shop, I think we are easily going to fill the Transit van we have hired, just hope we only need to make one trip.

In a last minute decision, partly bought on by the fact that we know have a bigger room, we have decided to take along a selection of our High End Headphones, basically the best from each manufacturer that we do, other than Stax for which I am taking along the 4170 system, as I think that offers great value for money and shows the classic Stax Lambda sound. As well as a great selection of cans we will be taking along the Bryston BHA-1 headphone amp and the Heed Canamp to drive them and will be using the Oppo 105 as the source with a selection of music, all being fed off a USB hard drive. I’m not sure how much critical listening will be able to be achieved as the PMC speakers will be really singing but it should give a fair idea of sound quality which can then be followed up with a visit to our dedicated headphone room to explore further.

So this is what we will be taking -

Sennheiser HD800

Grado PS1000

Fostex TH-900

Beyerdynamic T-1

Stax 4170 System

Audeze LCD-3

HiFiMan HE-6

Don’t forget that we are offering 10% Off any PMC, Heed or Bryston bought between now and the end of September.

Hope to see some of you over the weekend for what promises to be good fun, just need to figure out what tunes to play, I’d always wanted to be a DJ so maybe this is my chance, one things for sure though we won’t be playing the normal plinky plonk HiFi show music

To make things a little more challenging we are going to a big PMC party at Metropolis Studios in London Thursday night, the evening before the set-up day for the show, which probably isn’t the best idea, especially as I think there is a free bar, but considering PMC throw the best party’s there is no way we could miss that, so if we all look a little worse for wear over the weekend please be gentle on us.

In relation to the show, here is a great review on the Fact.12’s that we will be showcasing this weekend, I know Rene who wrote this and he was so impressed he actually bought a pair, you can’t say more than that.

PMC fact.12 nothing but the truth | The Ear

Right I must dash, I’ve got a lot of kit to start boxing up

Cheers,

Paul.

 

[HiFi Lounge]

Hi All,

Well it has certainly been a long, tiring but very rewarding and exciting few days as we have been getting ready and setting up for our first HiFi show as exhibitors. There have been a couple of small issues to contend with throughout today as we have been setting up, but nothing that couldn’t be overcome and now I feel confident that we have done all we can to present at the National Audio Show with a room that sounds pretty damn good. Initially the Heed and PMC twenty.23 system worked out the box and sounded really lovely but the PMC Fact.12 and Bryston rig needed a bit more work, eventually though after playing around with positioning and moving some sound panels around they are really singing now

The biggest shock of the day was opening the door to the Vale Suit where we are situated for the next couple of days and realising how big our room was and then deciding which way to fire the kit, in the end I think we chose right, we also set up our headphone rig but I fear that may interfere too much with our main system with noise leakage from the cans so that may have to become a static display.

Anyway here are a few pictures of the last day, I can’t wait till tomorrow when everyone starts arriving, I guess I’d better start thinking about what to play, I tried some Rammstein before leaving and that really rocked, although that may empty the room rather than fill it, need to sort out something a little more pleasing for everyone, but if you do want to hear some Rammstein then please do ask

Hope to see some of you tomorrow

Anyone see where our HiFi went?



Ah there it is.



It was looking like we were going to need a bigger van.



Now that is a big room, fantastic.



Time to get busy.



The start of a system.



Then a couple of hours of chaos.



Now we are getting somewhere.







Outside our room.



All ready for action







Cheers,

Paul.

 

[hifinutt]

yes enjoyed the room greatly , thanks for all the effort you put in

 

[dohraeme]

Likewise.

The (relatively) small PMC Twenty.23 were playing when I was there and sounding nice.

 

[TheMinimalCriminal]

Would really like to have come and listened to this room in particular as I'm mulling over the idea of switching from full hifi to just headphones for entirely practical reasons.

 

[HiFi Lounge]

Thanks guys, have to say we had a ball, great fun

 

[HiFi Lounge]

Would really like to have come and listened to this room in particular as I'm mulling over the idea of switching from full hifi to just headphones for entirely practical reasons.

Feel free to come along to the shop and spend as much time as you like in our dedicated headphone room, to be honest that would be far better than the show as for headphones our setup was far from ideal but it was done to just give people the idea that we do quite a good range of high end headphones and will then explore the different options further, personally I'm intrigued by the Abyss headphones, I never knew anything about them before the show.

 

[HiFi Lounge]

Hi Everyone,

Well we survived our first HiFi Show as exhibitors and I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who supported us and came along to say hi, it was great to see so many of our customers and friends along with meeting so many new people interested in HiFi, all in all it seemed like a great show, although I only got to see 2 corridors, a lift and 4 walls for 3 days there seemed to be a really good turnout with our room being packed many times with standing room only on both the Saturday and Sunday.

Yes it was a lot of work but more importantly it was great fun, there really is nothing better than playing music all day and talking HiFi

A hotel really is quite a harsh environment in which to make a HiFi sing but I think we did a pretty reasonable job, not perfect, but we got many comments from people saying that it was one of the best sounding rooms at the show, which is all you can ask for really, saying that with PMC, Heed and Bryston it shouldn’t be too difficult really to make a great sound.

Now all that is left is to un-box everything and make the shop look like it used to rather than a store room, so once again, thanks to PMC and Heed for all their help and support and everyone who popped in to our room, hope to see you again there next year.

Here are a couple of pics of the room in action -









Now the painful bit, time to pack it all down, thanks to Ross & Wendy’s Dad for helping, it actually ended up not taking that long.





Next year we are just taking a portable radio to demo

Cheers,

Paul.

 

[SCIDB]

hi,

Good stuff. I liked the sound of your room, you did well.

SCIDB

 

[SCIDB]

Now the painful bit, time to pack it all down, thanks to Ross & Wendy’s Dad for helping, it actually ended up not taking that long.

Cheers,

Paul.

[/b]

Hi,

It seems that I have been captured in this photo along with Jack (BD Audio).

SCIDB

 

[deggie]

Hi dean ...im dissapointed no ....jazz hands...

 

[SCIDB]

Hi dean ...im dissapointed no ....jazz hands...

Hi,

I didn't notice the camera 'til after the photo was taken.

SCIDB

 

[deggie]

Hi dean, our paths did,nt cross at the show,

hope you enjoyed the day.

 

[HiFi Lounge]

hi,Good stuff. I liked the sound of your room, you did well.

SCIDB

Thanks SCIDB, it was a lot of work but great fun, just about getting straight in the shop now what with un-boxing everything and getting it all hooked up again.