Shows Heathrow High Fidelity Show 09 Heathrow High Fidelity Show
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Heathrow High Fidelity Show Total number of exhibitors 38 Most recent exhibitor added Aspara Loudspeakers Print this page The show is now Live! |
A perfect synergy of technology and traditional show...
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date for this show!
To receive your loyalty card in time for the High-fidelity show, you must sign-up to this web site by 24th March 2008 (applicants in UK).
Welcome...
...to the wonderfully British and very idiosyncratic show that demonstrates each year that there is still a huge yearning for the unusual, offbeat, fiendishly expensive or just plain hard to find High End Audio equipment.
Largely made up and supported by the smaller manufacturers and Distributors this really is the show that you’ll be guaranteed to see new things, new ideas and people, and isn’t that just the best reason to go to a show?
Tweaky, eclectic, super friendly, down to earth, different, inspirational, motivating, unintimidating
. . all words that have been used to describe this uniquely British show.
The organisers go out of their way to attract new exhibitors each year but studiously avoiding the mass marketeers, and as its reputation grows from overseas as well.
Run uniquely as a non-profit making event costs to exhibitors are kept to the absolute minimum so that there is a maximum incentive to attend.
We look forward to seeing past customers and of course new faces without which, the show would not continue to prosper.
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| Park Inn London Heathrow Bath Road London Middlesex UB7 0DU United Kingdom Phone: +44 20 8759 6611 |
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Travel Details
THIS SHOW NOW HAS IT'S OWN DEDICATED EXCLUSIVE ENTRANCE
Make your way to the BLUE CONFERENCE CENTRE at the front of the hotel
This is the ONLY entrance for show visitors.
Train / Shuttle Bus
Addendum
" Several of our visitors have also told us that if you're travelling from the London direction and alight at Hatton Cross Tube Station rather than Heathrow there is a free bus service which takes around 6-7 minutes and stops off on the corner of Sipson Road which runs at the side of the Park Inn Hotel. The bus numbers to look out for are 285 & 423. "
Take the Piccadilly Line tube or the Heathrow Express and alight at Terminals 1,2&3. The Hotel Hoppa picks up at intervals outside each Terminals 1,2&3. Catch the Hotel Hopper H2 to PARK INN HEATHROW.
Travel by car
Uniquely for people travelling by car to our show there will be a dedicated carpark within the Hotel. More importantly you can park all day for just £5.
From London A4:
Follow signposts for terminals 1,2 & 3. At traffic lights where you would turn left for the Airport, turn right and then take the first left into the Hotel entrance.
From M25:
Follow signs for M4 Terminals 1,2 & 3. Take exit 4 off the M4 for terminals 1,2 & 3. Avoid entering the tunnel into the Airport and take the spur road to your left and turn left at the first set of lights. You are now in front of the Hotel.
From the M4:
Take exit 4 off the M4 for terminals 1,2&3. Avoid entering the tunnel into the Airport and take the spur road to your left and then turn left at the first set of lights. You are now at the Hotel.
ALL DAY DEDICATED PARKING ON SHOW DAYS OF JUST £5
YES PARK ALL DAY FOR JUST £5
SO NOW YOU CAN BRING YOUR CAR TO HEATHROW
Airlines
British Airways, http://www.britishairways.com
Lufthansa, http://www.lufthansa.com
London Underground
Tube Times, http://www.tfl.gov.uk/modalpages/2625.aspx
Undergrou Map, http://www.tfl.gov.uk/gettingaround/1106.aspx
Local Trains
http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/
Hotel/Accomodation
http://heathrow.airporthotelguide.com/
You can also stay at the Park Inn Heathrow, subject to availibility.
Finding you way around...
Over the coming months we will add guides as to how to get the most out of your visit to the show!
Click on links below:
>> Open Show Floor Plan (PDF Format)
Download Show Programme
Here is your chance to see the programme before you arrive at the show. Choose version below by clicking on the image:
High-res version (13mb)
Low-res version (2mb)
Loyalty Card - Don't Forget the cut-off date for this show!
Only 500 will be available and to show visitors only...
Special announcement: The free (for visitors only) test CD “Bass Tones, Tastes, Textures and Transient Tests”
This will be available to visitors to the Stereonow Syndicate Room #1. This disc has 12 short (less than 60 seconds each) and rather special pieces played by one of the world’s leading electric bass session professionals. These pieces are variously played on 4, 5 and 6 string basses, some solid-bodied and others electro-acoustic. Some pieces with picks, others with just fingers.
According to Howard Popeck: "This unique CD is designed to very quickly highlight the differences in bass character and performance between varying speakers and systems. With a feeble system, all the tracks sound tonally pretty much the same. On a decent system not only do all the tracks clearly and immediately demonstrate differing textures and tones, but the harmonics ring pure and sweet and the decay (one specific track for this) is natural rather than studio-enhanced. The sympathetic vibrations (a natural phenomenon) of adjacent un-damped strings can be clearly heard – on superior systems, and
not at all on the mediocre ones!
As the quality of the system improves, the distinguishing aspects of each track are readily identifiable. As far as Chester Group know, no one has produced such a ‘tool’ before for show visitors – and certainly not free.
Once you’ve heard these tracks on the Harbeth/LFD/North Star system, then take it to any other exhibitor and ask them to play it. Once they’ve done so, some might well refuse to repeat the exercise. In which case you’ll be able to draw your own conclusions.
No bass pedals or effects were used. The recordings are uncompressed and un-equalised. Direct injection into the recording equipment. No post-performance fiddling whatsoever.
This isn't some shoddy cheap CDR. This is a tool to keep, with guidance notes and a proper CD case. The bass energy is enormous. Use with caution i.e at low volumes initially."
Only 500 will be available, and only to visitors to the show. We regret that there can be no exceptions to this and we cannot respond to request from non-attendees. Thank you.
Duo Mezzo
GT Audio will be demonstrating the incredible new Duo Mezzo Loudspeaker.
niche
2. a comfortable or suitable position in life or employment
Well we’d like to add to that dictionary meaning:
3. a comfortable, suitable or situation that deals uniquely with a specific interest
And that couldn’t better define the unique nature of the ‘Heathrow High Fidelity show 2008’
Since its launch back in 2003 this show has steadfastly kept to its original objective:
To make available products or services not readily available on the average High Street.
To provide access to high quality products.
As far as possible concentrate on Audio only
To search out the new and interesting
Well we think we’ve achieved that again and in this all too common mass merchandising world we live in isn’t nice to know that here’s something just for you and there is nowhere else you can get it.
THIS YEAR
Well once again we’ve filled the venue with exhibitors and kept it to what you want and all you want, lot’s of top class demos and no distractions. We’re pleased to say yet again we’ve rung the changes with some new names without losing the support of key exhibitors. More than enough to keep you busy all day with low cost parking, great access
( all on one floor
) and above all the unique High Fidelity flavour. Enjoy as they say.
We will be hosting some exciting competitions at the show...
