Munich 2014

Days of posting will be required to provide for you all of the analog news at Munich's High End Show this year. There's so much to report both with still photos and videos. The show ends tomorrow but tomorrow will be a day off from the show to post as much as possible tomorrow morning before leaving for the U.K. where I will be visiting the S.M.E. factory with American S.M.E. importer Chad Kassem of Acoustic Sounds, to see where (if anywhere) the company plans on going over the next few years.

Meanwhile at photo above says all you need to know about this year's extraordinary show. The attendance was spectacular—the most people I've ever seen at the always crowded Munich High End Show. It wouldn't be surprising if the legitimate total attendance exceeded 16,000 people.

The huge convention center was packed both yesterday and today and the demographics were encouraging: young people were all over the place—both kids with their parents and adolescents and young adults there to see what's new and exciting in the world of high performance audio.

Headphones and high resolution audio were on the minds of many but the interest in vinyl among the young at the show was unmistakable. The show was packed with new analog gear from phono preamps to record cleaning machines to used and new vinyl, turntables, cartridges and accessories.

So stay tuned and over the next fews days analogplanet will be posting the world's most complete analog gear show coverage including videos.

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