Athens Highend Show went well last week. Philippe sent me his pictures few days ago and also shared his exciting story below.
A lot of enthusiastic people. The ifi sales guys were saying this show is way better than anything they have in the UK. The dac and the R3 went well.
On the software side we had a shout out with the best analog gear in the world and they thought they would humiliate us and they were extremely impressed: the told us that it was one of the finest digital gear they had heard and when the total cost of the source including PC was 2000 euros compared with a 40000 turntable + phono stage. Well, what an optimized pc+good usb cleaning+mushichi player could do especially at this price.
We [including Fidelizer] are pioneers: in the high end community the fact that a pc can be a better source for audio than all this expensive hardware has not yet sank into the mentalities a lot of didactic work is needed.
I think if I can build a presence in the finest audio shop [having their pc setup and optimized with banners ] will help a lot.
The latter part sounds like a good idea to me if you ask me. I wonder how to make audiophiles in general accept new computer-based solutions as mainstream. If mainstream audiophiles were like 90s, I’m sure a lot of famous computer engineers will be hired to build highend music servers, found his own companies and sell off later to China by now. 😀
