Hong Kong High-End AV Show 2014


Date: 2014-08-16

 

The period from 8th to 10th August saw the "Hong Kong High-End Audio/Video Show" at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre as an annual event to host visitors from all social circles. A multitude of audio brands were gathered together showing music lovers and audio enthusiasts the trends of audio product development. The equipment and technologies on exhibition manifested themselves as globally outstanding.。

This year Richcoln Company Limited was to present two different product categories. Room S427 was dedicated for conventional 2-channel audio products like Burmester's BA 71 Ambience Series floorstanding speaker, Model 151 Musiccenter, Model 150 Streaming Music Player, Octave's HP 700 preamplifier, Metronome Technologies' T5 Signature CD transport and C6 Signature D/A converter, Acoustic Signature's Novum turntable with TA-1000 tonearm. Booth X-05 featured mainstream CAS (computer-as-source) digital audio products for the younger generation, namely AVM's SD3.2 streaming decoding preamplifier, CS2.2 all-in-one streaming music player / amplifier, Lindemann's new Musicbook 25 and Musicbook 20 streaming music players, Musicbook 15 and Musicbook 10 music players with separate PCM and DSD decoders, Musicbook 50 fully balanced Class-D power amplifier, Aedle high-end headphone from France and Canton AM5 active speaker system.

Besides introducing a multitude of world-renowned audio brands, two daily activities were presented to attendees. A seminar of phono cartridge development with an analogue disc demo session was held on 8th and 9th August. Mr. Peter Ledermann, Chief design engineer and CEO of Soundsmith, who specializes in moving-iron cartridge design and makes the strain gauge cartridge technology flourish, was invited to talk about the principles of phono cartridges and correlated technology and demonstrate his own products via high quality sound recordings on LPs. Both the press and attendees were enthused and pleased to better understand the analogue disc. Every visitor yielding Likes in our Facebook were presented a small gift as a souvenir.

The audio fair lasted three days and came to a finale amidst excitement and applauses. Richcoln Company Limited wishes to express its hearty thanks to all attendees and friends yielding Likes in our Facebook and stresses its commitment to introducing more quality audio equipment while providing more musical activities to audiophiles.