This has me wondering if more audio shows could lose the entrance free altogether and make up any lost revenue by selling a few more rooms to exhibitors, which in turn will enjoy more foot traffic because entry is now free? Twice unlikely then that the prospective attendee would want to double that spend in bringing his/her significant other. Want to take a wander around the forthcoming Sound & Vision show in Bristol? Like RMAF, you’re looking at £12 per person per day – a fair chunk of cash for the average twentysomething pulling minimum wage and/or paying off student debt. We need to move beyond lip service if we’re to properly address gender inequality.Ī brief chat with a staunchly British loudspeaker manufacturer, also on the 16th floor, pulled apart these thoughts further to conclude that an audio show entry fee arguably funnels its attendee demographic down to the same old same old (men). Its female organiser, exhibitors and attendees should be celebrated because 1) as per a recent editorial by an American publication, we men should be called to task about the high end audio world’s lack of female engagement and 2) because that same editorial was followed by 100+ pages of hifi coverage written by men, about men (and their machines). It shouldn’t pass with comment: a stronger female presence permeates the Norddeutsche Hifi Tage than RMAF. The Norddeutsche Hifi-Tage’s Stateside equivalent might be October’s RMAF, run by the uber-charming Marjorie Baumert (♀), but it pulls 5000+ attendees over two days (not three) and free entry in Hamburg – as opposed to U$40 in Denver – sees more of the usual demographic, middle-aged white dudes, bringing the rest of the family along for the ride. Two talented women working in a heavily male dominated scene. The day prior, before the snow began to blow in hard, I spoke with Daniela Manger (♀) about her P1 passive loudspeakers and caught a quick ‘Guten Tag’ with show organiser Ivonne Borchert-Lima (♀). The 2018 edition of Norddeutsche Hi-fi Tage (translation: North German Hifi Days) had wrapped not an hour before: over 170 rooms of the Holiday Inn converted into high-end audio listening spaces.īy Sunday afternoon, a weekend long snowstorm had slowly filtered the view from the 16th floor to monochrome, no Instagram intervention required. The Sunday night ride on rails from Hamburg to Berlin was a time for contemplation, soundtracked by 1more ANC IEMs pulling Nina Kraviz’s 2017 Essential Mix from an iPhone.
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