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incidentally,
and you can
expect to read
more ab out
t h at i n ou r
The exhibitors at this year’s Salon
pages shortly.
were scarcer than usual, and no one
Suffice it to say
is more keenly aware of it than CEO
that it is one of
Michel Plante.
the most excit-
Would the Salon even break even?
ing recent devel-
“That’s not even certain,” he told us,
opments in the
and he plans to canvass the stakehold-
world of digital
ers — that is, the people who do or should
audio.
exhibit — on what he should do next.
The speaker
When the torch was passed to him three
at bottom right is
years ago, he moved the show from the
the Verity Parsifal
Delta hotel to the huge Centre Sheraton
Monitor. If it looks
complex, which offered a much greater
smaller than you
array of large rooms to accommodate
expect a Verity
companies like Apple, Sony, Canon and
speaker to look,
Nintendo, to choose only those examples.
it’s because it is the top
And it worked…once. But it was clear this year that the Salon’s core clientele, the part of the Parsifal full-
high end two-channel industry that has kept it going over more than two decades, range speaker, mounted on a stand of
was what remained strong.
adjustable height. It’s $10,000 the pair,
And several owners of major stores told us that what still works for them in a not including either the stand or the
time of trouble is two-channel stereo. Why More than a home free theatre. version? Rocco subwoofer (Verity is maintaining
A number of exhibitors confided in us what their own wish is: a move back to the its penchant for operatic names — Rocco
Delta, with its acoustically superior rooms. For years Plante now, has we heard have the been same publishing, thing. And on our was Web a character site, a free in PDF Beethoven’s opera
he knows he has work to do. “I’m version tired of of advertising our magazine. that someone like Marantz Fidelio, sung by a bass). Nice-sounding.
will be there,” he said, “and then getting The just reason a couple is simple. of receivers.” We know you’re looking for Disappointing information, and was the impressively-
In August we got the word: the that Salon is will almost move, certainly but not why back you’ve to the come Delta to with visit our styled site. Herald And that’s loudspeaker why shown at top
its impossibly-congested elevators, we but give to away the what Bonaventure. some competitors It sits atop consider a huge to be left a startlingly on page 22. large Looks like the natural
convention space (which will be hosting amount the of National information…for Home Show free. that week) and child of B&W, no? In fact this $7000
has loading docks aplenty, as well as its We very would own give Métro it all station. away The for free, chosen if we dates: could still self-powered stay in business. speaker is from China. The
March 25-28 (the 25th is for trade and Recent press only). figures indicate that each issue is getting accompanying downloaded as electronics many
Got suggestions? Drop by the show’s as 100,000 Web times, site: www.salonsonimage.com.
and that figure keeps growing. looked just as impres-
Yes, we know, if we had a nickel for each download… sive. This gear has
h o p i n g t h eTruth y other is, we’re times in the I’ve business heard it, of but helping it was you enjoy potential, music though at home
sound as good under the fed best from possible a PS conditions. Audio player And that movies may too. for We’ll now do it’s what a little we need
as they look. to do in not order have to get been the working information quite to perfectly. you. bland. I want to
O n e m o rOf e course, That player, we also by want the you way, to read was the our one published keep editions an eye on too. it. We
speaker: hope t he that, I had having heard read in this Vegas far, playing you’ll want some to of read on.
The next show
Audio Physics Reference Recordings’ remarkable HRx we’ll be covering
Virgo, shown recordings. I wanted to get a second is of course CES
at top right. It listen, but on subsequent days the lineups in Vegas in early
should have were long…which may of course be a January. The Mon-
sounded ter- good sign.
treal Salon returns
rific, as it has We’ve done our own experiments on the final weekend
with HRx, in March at the new
venue, the spectacular
Hotel
B o n a v e nt u r e .
Did I mention
the four-season
outdoor
s w i m m i n g
pool?
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