Am I alone in thinking there was a lot of weird music played at the Bristol Show on Friday. I know I’m sixty but average age on Friday must have been 40+ and yet I only heard 3 pieces of music that I’d heard before in 7 hours. They were playing a Supertramp track in the Magnaplan room (I think) when I walked in and which they soon took off, probably because it didn’t sound very good, a Joe Bonammassa BD was being shown in the Arcam room, Wilson B were playing off CD a Jackson Browne song (don’t have any JB) and the guy in the Clearaudio room was asked to play a track from Razorlight which amazingly I’d heard before but only on the radio. This confirmed my previous thoughts that the system sounded a bit clinical or perhaps CLEAR is the word. The guys in front of me then asked him to play some more rock so he put something on and they immediately walked out unimpressed with his choice and I soon followed.
The Naim Statement choice was bizarre but as someone said to me when we walked into the room he’d been coming to the show for years and hardly heard anything he knew.
I know this is not a music show but it would have been nice occasionally to have had a datum point to work from and I did hear a few things I liked but mainly no idea what they were. I was surprised there was no classical played. Was I just unlucky and ended in in the wrong place all the time or should I just concentrate on AV and pictures next year
The Naim Statement choice was bizarre but as someone said to me when we walked into the room he’d been coming to the show for years and hardly heard anything he knew.
I know this is not a music show but it would have been nice occasionally to have had a datum point to work from and I did hear a few things I liked but mainly no idea what they were. I was surprised there was no classical played. Was I just unlucky and ended in in the wrong place all the time or should I just concentrate on AV and pictures next year