North West Audio Show - Cranage Hall, Cheshire 21/22 June 2025

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Another visit to G Point Audio...!

 

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Acoustica's room, the Naim gear is off to the left, they focus more on just the music. Price list for reference...!

 

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Some shots from the Doug Brady rooms, first Burmester and YG speakers...

 

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More Doug Brady...and oh Rega, you shouldn't have...!

 

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Luxman and Quad in the Doug Brady room...

 

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Kii actives models Seven and Three, KEF and Monitor Audio speakers...Doug Brady room again.

 

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Purchases? Well, no hifi hardware and all music -

Until next year then!

Beautiful write up. Did they have hardware on offer and what sort of discounts did they have? Thanks.

 

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Fanthorpes room with PM speakers, these were pretty impressive...

 

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Edwards Audio room. Great little system in here...

 

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Morgan Acoustics and their Ten 12 floorstanders. These were nice, blended the music beautifully. They'll be at the Edinburgh show in November too.

 

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The Karma AV room focused on MOFI audio gear - very decent sounding setup.

 

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Next, Auden Distribution with their Luphonic Turntables display...

 

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Auden again and the Eggleston Works and Hegel demo system. AC/DC in full flight during this session!

 

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Neat Acoustics and their fantastic Iota II presentation. This room was one of the busiest and for good reason. The number of people with jaws almost agape at what they were hearing was staggering!

 

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Kii we're next with their actives and while these'll set you back around £7,000 a pair, they're deeply impressive with a grip on music you really need to hear.

 

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Hadn't mentioned them above, my bad, but Arke Audio had a really good room with their speakers and a mixed bag system featuring Denafrips DAC, Avalon amp and Puritan power management.

 

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Alchris Audio, with all of Chris (sorry...) and their very fine room.

 

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Yorkshire Hifi's room with the aforementioned Piega speakers and Hifi Rose based system...

 

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Auden Distribution's second room with the Hegel H400 and D50 DAC and the Amphion speakers...the Auden guy who completely disagreed with my views on the D50 just out of shot...!

 

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Dooley's Hifi and their Fyne Audio / Musical Fidelity setup. I really wanted to run back to a Piega rep and show them this....

 

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Think this is the High End by Oz room OR it's Chord. Flying visit as the music didn't grab me too much here...

 

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Willow Tree Audio had a very good room and that Technics SP10 was something else.

 

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Audiocounsel's Audio Note room. Brilliant. One of the best of the weekend.

 

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Atoll Electronique's room. Nice gear, sounded good.

 

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No idea. Great room, lovely system, that's where it ends. Anybody recognise the speakers?!