HIGH END 2008 / MUNICH, GERMANY

                            MY FIRST EUROPEAN SHOW

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I was instantly overwhelmed by a festive marketplace of high end audio rooms and displays. Each manufacturer was set up uniquely but in a uniformly cohesive way as to entice listeners and I was a willing participant. As we walked through and around to the second level I noticed quite a few foreign brands that I had chance to listen to at Perry’s house. Company’s like, Ascendo, Behold, Dali Megaline, LINN, ELAC, and Gryphon.

    
I was surprised to see the ADAM Professional Audio room. I was caught off guard not realizing they were a German brand. Only recently, I had just purchased a pair of their A7 Studio Monitor loudspeakers, so it was only fitting that I gave them a personal thanks. I have a simple preproduction set up for my home recording studio which also includes an IMAC 24, Korg Triton Studio Workstation, PreSonus Firebox and the ADAM A7s. I found the ADAM A7s very impressive as its stereo imaging was tremendously accurate and lent itself to astonishing reproduction accuracy. I also met ADAM’s Canadian distributor Jason Christopher from Montreal, Canada, who besides running a top of the line recording studio in Montreal, said the his entire studio uses nothing but ADAM. He sat at a table where CP and I were resting our feet and we just struck up a conversation and found out that we knew some of the same people in the music business. He extended an invitation for me to come to Montreal and maybe do some production in his studio. I plan to take him up on the offer.

Thursday morning....

Friday morning...

All Thursday morning, into the afternoon and early evening (the show officially ended at six o‘clock), CP and I traversed from booth to booth and room to room dead set on taking advantage of Thursday’s designated Press Day. We both knew that opening day (Friday), would mean lots more people, lots more noise and less time listening (photo above).

When we got back to the Hotel at about seven o‘clock, CP, fighting the fatigue of travel, decided to hang out for a while at the bar/grille located inside the Leopold Holiday Inn. I, on the other hand, didn’t care what time it was because my body-clock told me different. At seven o’clock that evening, when many show-goers met at the bars and restaurants to talk about Europe’s biggest audio event, I went straight to bed. I slept undisturbed and straight through the night waking at the break of dawn fresh, with renewed vigor and ready for the world of audio!