Very recently an email landed in my inbox from a relatively new High End Audio dealer called Kantata Audio, based in Lisburn, Northern Ireland. The subject matter was an upcoming HiFi Show to be held at the Crowne Plaza (1) just outside Belfast, on the 23rd of March, this year. The email was from John Stirling, […]
Its a sad fact that Bangor town has had no music retailer since January 2012 when HMV closed its doors in the town. Over the years Bangor has had numerous record shops, from Smyths for Records, Unicorn Records, Harrison/Musique, Kosmos, Underground Music, Plastic Passion, The Record and Tape Centre, Aquarius Music, MTM and Sho’nuff, to name a few of the independents that traded there over the years, but after HMV closed its doors in the town there had been no new music retailing in the town until Bending Sounds started trading in April 2017 …….
This will be the first in a series of review/visits of some of the record shops in Northern Ireland. It won’t be as expansive as my Scottish series back in 2012, simply because of logistic limitations, but I will do my best to visit all the main players in independant music retailing in the north of Ireland…..
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Continuation of the Munich High End Audio Show 2018
Once again the annual High End show was held in Munich, between the 10th to 13th of May at the MOC exhibition centre. Now in its 37th year many new and exhiting audio products were on show and this Photo Report will cover the best of these
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High End 2017 was held this year, as it has for a fair number now in the MOC, in Munich. The show was held on the 18th – 21st May and from all accounts the show was larger and better attended this year than in previous, this perhaps reflecting High End Munich greater importance in the audio show calendar.
This year the Sound & Vision show celebrated its 30th Anniversary and once again the venue was the Marriott City Centre Hotel, in the UK city of Bristol. Interestingly over that 30 years run time the venue hasn’t changed. Held on the 24th February to Sunday 26th February 2017, this show featured a number of product launches […]
I want to wish all the Adventures in High Fidelity Audio readers a very Happy Christmas and a peaceful, blessed and prosperous New Year.