California Audio Show Next Weekend....

By Jason Victor Serinus
After a gap of far too many years, Northern California again has a high-end audio show. Sponsored by Constantine Soo's DaGoGo.com, the fledgling California Audio Show will take place July 30 –August 1 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Emeryville.

That location —next to Interstate 80, just across the bridge from San Francisco, midway between Oakland and Berkeley, and a free (albeit time-sensitive) shuttle ride from the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) MacArthur line—is expected to draw a good cross-section of audiophiles from throughout the Bay Area.

Soo began contemplating organizing the show in 2009, when several importers attending that year's Rocky Mountain Audio Fest kept telling him that California needed its own audio event. When the request was repeated at Axpona 2010 in the first week of March, he felt impelled to heed the call, and thus was born the California Audio Show.

As of July 16, Soo had almost maxed out on exhibit space. He currently expects to have at least 31 exhibit rooms, including six large rooms and two midsize suites, displaying products from about 90 companies. Among the major exhibitors are AAImports, Audio Image of Oakland, Blue Coast World High Rez Music Distribution, Electrocompaniet, JBL, Legacy Audio, Loggie Audio of Redwood City, the Lotus Group, Mark Levinson, Soundscape AV of Santa Rosa, and Win Analog.

The admission fee is almost as good a deal as a subscription to Stereophile. Until July 18, tickets to the California Audio Show were specially priced at $10 for a three-day pass, but the regular admission fee of $15 for a three-day pass is hardly expected to break the bank. Soo has also offered free admission to members of the ever-expanding Bay Area Audiophile Society.
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