Random thoughts from the Bristol Show 2025

[Jasonovich]

They were both in attendance. My point was that Matthew and I had different impressions of those two, but agreed elsewhere on the majority.

Fair enough
Saw some of it on the YT, so many brands were present. Looked packed.
Is it going to be at Bristol next year?
I was hoping to take a mate along on the next showing, he'll probably be bored out of his pants but we can always explore the culinary delights of Bristol afterwards 🙂

 

[nopiano]

Fair enough
Saw some of it on the YT, so many brands were present. Looked packed.
Is it going to be at Bristol next year?
I was hoping to take a mate along on the next showing, he'll probably be bored out of his pants but we can always explore the culinary delights of Bristol afterwards 🙂

It’s been on the same week in the same hotel for about thirty years. A good chance it’ll be the same again next year!

 

[Jasonovich]

It’s been on the same week in the same hotel for about thirty years. A good chance it’ll be the same again next year!

Magic ☺️👍

 

[matthewpianist]

Could it possibly be nearing the end of its shelf life?

I know it's expensive for manufacturers, and I would imagine a large of proportion of visitors (including me), will never find the budget for most of the kit they hear. I would imagine it's fairly questionable from a commercial perspective. The big consumer brands clearly see that, because there's no KEF, B&W, Marantz, Denon, Yamaha etc., and I'd be very surprised if you could show me that most of the specialist brands have high enough margins (and turnover) to speculate to accumulate to too high a level.