WHAT HI-FI? Show 2022

[Nitin K]

Nitin K. Thanks. Good you went there and posted the photos. Beyond me, maybe I'll learn someday. As I said in another post, ears may be giving up but I went again today and somehow the Sonus Faber combo at two rooms with different amplification and the Acoustic Portrait room kept drawing me back again and again. The Acoustic Portrait sound had an undefinable sweetness, though the cost at approx 12 l for the system on demo, is far beyond my range of affordability. Unfortunately the smaller system was not on demo, though, sadly, as this costs much less and would have, I am sure , give a taste of Acoustic Portrait sound at a more affordable price point. Interesting to see the Jamo 909 speaker , open back design, on display. I had heard this a decade or so back, it was good.
Here I would like to say something. While the above systems were in the region of 10 l + ,maybe much beyond, let me reiterate that amps and speakers by Norge, Telome, Sonodyne ,Cosmic, Pulz and many other Indian manufacturers sound/sounded astonishingly good at much lower price points and made many of us so happy. Let the music play on play on.

Most welcome and thanks a lot to you too General Sound. My main intention of going there after your nudge was basically to see what I could be possibly missing in my setup and see other setups and experience the sound of the brands beyond my budget too

Many popular brands were missing there. I too missed seeing and hearing some setups over there which I am sure others can fill in

But what I felt could have helped a lot of folks is to have the demo of mid level amps/speakers and other components too since most of the gear connected were the super expensive ones. A lot of prospective buyers are in this mid level segment. The super expensive ones can no doubt be played on request.

 

[spirovious]

Visited the show Today. Honestly it was not to best if compared earlier shows. Stereo setups were good but not optimized to my taste. Me and a FM usually enjoy certain rooms ,but this year we didn't hooked to any particular room.

Yes Dynavoice center and subwoofer made us sit longer. Center was bringing all details out with good sense. Subwoofer was powerful and fast. lts 10 in sw costing 55k+ gst.
B&W tower were connected to 6 series towers with Demon, but in open space sound was little sharp. Bass was reasonably stronger considering a large hall.
AVRs used in multiple rooms were
Marantz sr5015
Pioneer LX505
Onkyo TX-RZ50

Demon avr6700 (2.1)
And
Tonewinner AVR(2.1)

Tonewiner avr sounded clean and open ,but didn't have WiFi inbuilt.

Onkyo was powerful and so was Pioneer, but again both sounded sharp in larger room.

Overall it was good to visit the show after 3 years.

 

[Nitin K]

Visited the show Today. Honestly it was not to best if compared earlier shows. Stereo setups were good but not optimized to my taste. Me and a FM usually enjoy certain rooms ,but this year we didn't hooked to any particular room.

Yes Dynavoice center and subwoofer made us sit longer. Center was bringing all details out with good sense. Subwoofer was powerful and fast. lts 10 in sw costing 55k+ gst.
B&W tower were connected to 6 series towers with Demon, but in open space sound was little sharp. Bass was reasonably stronger considering a large hall.
AVRs used in multiple rooms were
Marantz sr5015
Pioneer LX505
Onkyo TX-RZ50

Demon avr6700 (2.1)
And
Tonewinner AVR(2.1)

Tonewiner avr sounded clean and open ,but didn't have WiFi inbuilt.

Onkyo was powerful and so was Pioneer, but again both sounded sharp in larger room.

Overall it was good to visit the show after 3 years.

True, the Dynavoice center was much clearer than the Klipsh center. The Denon with the B&W's did sound bright. But the Denon amp build quality and looks felt great. Maybe due to the room or setup they sounded bright.

 

[dips0502]

Any good projectors on demo?

 

[Nitin K]

Any good projectors on demo?

Yes Epson, Optoma, Viewsonic. There were more but did not see all.

 

[spirovious]

Viewsonic has Lamp free LED projector with up to 30000hrs life. Its ultra short throw video had great clarity and good contrast

 

[jedviper]

Visited the show Today. Honestly it was not to best if compared earlier shows. Stereo setups were good but not optimized to my taste. Me and a FM usually enjoy certain rooms ,but this year we didn't hooked to any particular room.

Yes Dynavoice center and subwoofer made us sit longer. Center was bringing all details out with good sense. Subwoofer was powerful and fast. lts 10 in sw costing 55k+ gst.
B&W tower were connected to 6 series towers with Demon, but in open space sound was little sharp. Bass was reasonably stronger considering a large hall.
AVRs used in multiple rooms were
Marantz sr5015
Pioneer LX505
Onkyo TX-RZ50

Demon avr6700 (2.1)
And
Tonewinner AVR(2.1)

Tonewiner avr sounded clean and open ,but didn't have WiFi inbuilt.

Onkyo was powerful and so was Pioneer, but again both sounded sharp in larger room.

Overall it was good to visit the show after 3 years.

Dynavoice are having 15" sub for demo........ price @ 130k

Wow great to hear about the show. Do keep posting the impressions on various setups there.

Would request members visiting tomorrow to make note of any wire less speaker systems for a Home Theater and update about them. Also if one could compare Center channel speakers on display would be a huge favor.

MaSh

yes ........... loewe (german brand) wireless speakers demo is there.... there is another wireless speaker demo but forgotten its name

 

[arj]

Picture of the Acoustic Portrait room from today.
Have heard some good feedback about the new Thiyaga Preamp.
Unbelievably someone apparently poked a finger through one of the bookshelf speaker drivers!

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I believe acoustic portrait got the Best sound award in the show. So good to see a domestic setup beating other brands !

 

[spirovious]

Dynavoice are having 15" sub for demo........ price @ 130k

Yes, 10,12in were in display.

 

[Bloom@83]

Didn’t Indiq Audio have any demos?

 

[Nitin K]

Didn’t Indiq Audio have any demos?

Not to my knowledge unless I missed seeing it.

 

[Nikhil]

I believe acoustic portrait got the Best sound award in the show. So good to see a domestic setup beating other brands !

Yes they did. I would really like to listen to the new Thiyaga preamp sometime.






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[dips0502]

also impressed with XGIMI portable projectors......very compact....
saw demo of their upcoming portable projector (slightly bigger than tatasky setupbox). very impressive
it's launching in August 22....

Are details of it available anywhere on the Internet?

 

[jedviper]

Are details of it available anywhere on the Internet?

chk with xgimi india website

 

[dips0502]

chk with xgimi india website

I can't see anything about new products on their site.

 

[captrajesh]

Went to the show just to listen to the AP set up. They were playing their Two-way towers with active crossovers being driven with their (improved) tube pre and SS power amps. In place of earlier 6N2P, the preamp now has 12AX7 tubes. The towers have Scanspeak mid-bass and tweeters.

Siva and Jeya have received me with their usual warm demeanor.

Due to my personal commitments, I only had a brief listen but sure they sounded wonderful. No wonder they got best sound of the show.

Another set-up I had listened was Sonus Faber driven by Rotel gear (I think) which sounded good. Gave a skip to all others. B&W was on display but wasn't played. If they did, too bad that I missed it.

 

[jedviper]

I can't see anything about new products on their site.

then u hve to wait till August...... very compact design like a external HDD, u can carry in ur bag and have 100" projection anytime anywhere...

 

[AmitG]

unfortunately missed the show as i was not in town. Would have loved to be there. I havent been to a hifi show for many years now......Thank you very much for the pictures and descriptions! Unfortunately there is a tendency to showcase the very best top end stuff and less focus on affordable gear.

 

[ssf]

The Mcintosh with the Sonus Faber was sublime

Where they the Olympicas ?

 

[Nitin K]

Where they the Olympicas ?

Hi Ssf,

The Sonus bookshelf were in the McIntosh/Arcam room. Not sure what model but it had a price tag of 10 lakhs according to the gentleman. Those bookshelves had a nice bass weight to it . On enquiring with the staff, there was no subwoofer connected since it was sounding big even at low volume. It actually felt a sub was not required for that room size.
The Sonus were also being played in the Rotel/Michi room but found it on the brighter side for my tastes as compared to the McIntosh.

Rgs,
Nitin