HIGH END 2016 - MUNICH - OVERTURE
The High End Show is a Bavarian pagan feast in honour of the gods with lots of beer to wash the sin of audio lust away.
high end 2016 - munich
High End 2016 - Munich - Part One - images galore: slideshow 1 to 4 (160 photos)
Images are worth a thousand words. Comments, opinions and critics need more time to digest all the information.
HIGH END 2016 - MUNICH - PART TWO - PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION - SLIDESHOWS 1, 2 AND 3 (100 photos)
Day two photo report in HD slideshows by JVH.
HIGH END 2016 - MUNICH - PART FOUR - HIGHLIGHTS II: BURMESTER, ABSOLARE, BEOLAB, SONUS FABER, CHORD, COCKTAIL, BLUESOUND, HIFIMAN, NAGRA
Further random highlighting of new stuff that called to my attention: some cheap, some expensive, some just plain inaccessible like the Burmester C500 Concept.
HIGH END 2016 - MUNICH - PART THREE - HIGHLIGHTS I: GRYPHON, AUDIO RESEARCH, ELAC, ESTELON, MARTEN, PATHOS, QUAD, AUDIOQUEST, D'AGOSTINO, METRONOME, AVANTGARDE
Just a few random highlights. The list will grow as time to sit down and write allows.
HIGH END 2016 - MUNICH - PART FIVE - HIGHLIGHTS III: AURALIC, BRINKMANN-MQA, CONSTELLATION, DIGIBIT, DYNAUDIO, EMM, FOCAL, MARTIN LOGAN, NAGRA
JVH continues to explore the audiophile fauna in the High End 2016 audio industry jungle.
HIGH END 2016 - MUNICH - PART SIX - HIGHLIGHTS IV: ADVANCE, ATOLL, AUDIOVECTOR, BURMESTER CHORD, GRYPHON, MCINTOSH, MSB, NAD, NAIM, PLAYBACK, PRIMARE, PROJECT, QUAD, RAIDHO, SOULUTION, STENHEIM, T+A, UNISON
These are the last of the highlights, just to be followed by thematic photo galleries: rooms, ubiquitous loudspeakers (Magico, Wilson Vivid), horns turntables, tubes and...audio 'weirdos'...
High End 2016 - Munich - Part Seven - Turntable Gallery
Analogue turntables like watches will never die, because they are collector's items, and sound better.
High End 2016 - Munich - Part 11 - Headphone Gallery
Everybody seems to want a pair. Some cost more and sound better than loudspeakers.
High End 2016 - Munich - Part Eight - Tube Gallery
A valve amplifier is like the old flame you swear you will never go back to, until one day the past invades the present.
