Munich Hi End Show & Deluxe Show 2017 Report

Last week we arrived back from Munich High End 2017 at the MOC exhibition centre.

It was the first time for me (Tom - pictured right) - what can I say? Well, as Kevin Best from ETI (pictured middle) would say "it was AWESOME!" Imagine a UK show multiplied by 10. Imagine the cost of a system on demo and add two more zeros to the price tag. The Munich show is a no holds barred experience - all the exhibitors go all out. It was well worth the visit!

Nick (pictured left) and I had a day and a half visit to the wonderful city of Munich and the show - we had to run to fit in all in. As well as the world-renowned High-End show, there was the Hi-Fi Deluxe show just a couple of miles away. Just across the road from the massive halls of the MOC there were a few pop-up shows in the Motor-World Museum and the neighbouring buildings.

 

Come evening we took the U-Bahn into Munich and had some traditional Bavarian food at the Schneider Brauhaus and then moved on to Park Cafe Biergarten for a few beers.

On arrival at the MOC it was straight to Hifi Collective business and we met up with Fredrick Caroe of Duelund. As you can see in the picture we got to see the new 8” driver with Kevlar cone and a unique wooden dust cap. We have an order in for some of these already and they will be available later on this year.
Duelund was exhibiting in collaboration with Zellaton and YS Sound in a system with a combined value of around 500,000 Euros. The Zellaton loudspeakers shown on demo used Duelund crossover components and had real grunt and dynamics.

We had a quick meeting with Joe Roberts who supplies the sound practices archive CD’s. It was great to see him and we now have an endless supply of this classic publication. He was hanging out with Silbatone who had some sweet tube amps driving a vintage Western Electric Mirrophonic M2 syestem from 1934! (picture below).

We spent some time chatting with Dennis and Mr. Turner of WBT, discussing new product lines and slight improvements to some of their now classic connectors – soon to be available at Hifi Collective.

Audio Note was Exhibiting at the Marriot Hotel as part of the Hifi Deluxe show. It was a more relaxed affair and we spent a delightful hour catching up with Peter Qvortrup. You may have noticed that the Audio Note transformers are not available to order at the moment as they are simply not able to keep up with demand for their finished products. As always their demo room was on top form. pictured above.