Anyone here going if only for pens and mugs?
Sunday again
Yes I might be up for that could go either day depending on who’s going
Same here
There appear to be just 23 Exhibitors - hard to see how that can be commercially viable?
I was wondering about it, as I’m going starting a course in Palma on the Monday, so travelling through London wouldn’t really be adding much to the trip, but it does look to be really very small.
Good point. I hadn’t even looked. That does seem a very short list. I’ll maybe take a look nearer the date before deciding. Just up for a day out with little expectation tbh but from the current list I might not bother.
So as I had a free ticket I decided to go take a look. As @Mrs_Maureen_OPinion pointed out there are very few rooms The Whittlebury show was substantially bigger than this. How can a London based show have such a low turnout of exhibitors?. Most rooms sounded average. OK so I was there early so maybe some kit needed to warm up a bit but the return to many rooms left me underwhelmed. One of the reasons I made the journey was because we had Gershman speakers in use. In this case their Monitor Studio standmounts. I was hoping that they might have the relaxed presentation of the Avant Guard model that I used too own but no. I suppose ‘Studio’ says it all. Still pretty good just not what I was hoping for.
They did have a very nice looking Zavfino turntable in the system.
The Winters Audio room was very impressive (no ob1 in attendance though which was a shame. Apparently its a busy day at the Crawfish restaurant.) The system was being driven by a Gryphon Essence 120 integrated with Giya loudspeakers and centre stage a direct drive turntable with a milled aluminium plinth from a new UK company called Onkk. Very nice if you like the curvacious look.Fitted with a Tri-Planer arm and a Murasakino Sumile cartridge. The system sounded really good.
Audio Note does it again. I walked in to Rage Against the Machine being played. A nice change from the usual meh. Those small pair of Ax2 standmounts were amazing. Rage was followed up with some Gorillaz which again sounded great. A very impressive system at the low end of their product range.
The other room I really liked was the Russell K room which was running a pair of the RED 50se standmounts with Rega amplification. Lovely sounding speakers.
That’s pretty much it. Very disappointing overall. Anyone looking for free mugs and pens @Stu forget it. Its a barren wasteland. Not even any vinyl stalls. £3 for a half filled cup of tea and ULEZ charges don’t help either I won’t bother next year. Whittlebury is way better and free tea and pastries.
Wasn’t Mik there?
Not sure tbh
He mentioned he was doing, it perhaps he didn’t make it?
Onkk is interesting although Googling it finds a picture/news story about it from 2021.
Must have taken a while to get it to market.
Liking their insta page
That Onkk TT
Yes, the looks aren’t for me either but it seems like there’s some worthwhile engineering in it.
There’s a tie in with Emporium and Onkk I seem to remember
Looks like Mik was listed:
I think the designer is from the Bungay area so quite possibly.
Yes it was Nick at Emporium and an engineer/horologist