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In Reply to: RMAF--some thoughts posted by slapshot on October 9, 2016 at 20:54:01:
This was my 9th or 10th RMAF. I've lost count. Given the construction issues at the Denver Tech Center Marriott I assumed that this year's show would suffer. In my opinion it did not. In fact I think it was one of the best in recent years.
One of the things that made it so enjoyable for me was the diversity of the music being played in the rooms. I heard far less of the same old recordings. Those of you who are show veterans know which ones I mean. I found myself using Soundhound quite often to identify what I was hearing. I now have a long list of recordings to track down.
Another improvement was apparently made necessary by the construction in the hotel: instead of having the majority of the exhibits in two separate locations in the hotel, most of the exhibitors were in the tower. That made it possible to just go to the top floor and use the stairway to just walk down to each floor. This greatly reduced the wait time for an elevator.
As usual, there were some rooms which I didn't think sounded so great and others which sounded wonderful. For those that I thought were really good, that would include Ryan Loudspeakers, the Zesto room and the Acoustic Zen room. There was a lot of vinyl being played. Most of the exhibitors I visited were accommodating to visitors who wanted to play music they'd brought with them assuming their system supported the format.
I heard MQA files for the first time. I thought they sounded great but it's the kind of thing where I'd have to hear comparisons of the same file in different formats to make a better judgement.
I attend these shows for a number of reasons:
1 - To experience hardware to which I'd otherwise have no access.
2 - To hear music which is new and desirable to me.
3 - To be able to talk to designers and dealers about the products and the industry in general.
4 - To experience a sense of community.
This show provided all three and it did so very well.
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- RE: RMAF--some thoughts - Gary 08:53:26 10/10/16 (1)
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