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t seems forever that the Montreal

show has been at the Delta hotel,

right downtown. The Delta was

a great venue for hi-ﬁ companies

looking for solidly-built rooms whose

acoustics you could work with. It wasn’t

so good for those needing vast space,

and the show had long spilled over into

adjacent hotels. This time organizer

Marie-Christine Prin intended to attract

other consumer electronics ﬁrms: Sony,

Toshiba, Nikon, perhaps even (snicker!)

Apple Computer. Hence the shift to the

Centre Sheraton, also downtown.

I was the one snickering about Apple,

but guess what…Apple was there.

UHF was not, however. Unlike the

varied hotel rooms at the Delta, the

Sheraton rooms are too small for what

we do. We made up for it (sort of) by

putting a “virtual room” on the Inter-

net, (complete with a system that could

be seen and examined, if not actually

heard), which remained open through

mid-April. Our absence meant that both

Albert and I had plenty of time to tour.

Albert’s account follows this one.

The ofﬁcial guide to the show, by

the way, had a hopeful photo of a Nikon

camera, but Nikon wasn’t there. It could

have been worse…imagine Nikon hadn’t

come and Canon had! On the other

hand Sony did have some cameras there,

including the DSC-R1, which Albert and

I had a great demo of. After the show we

bought one…and the product pictures in

this issue (except for the show pictures)

were taken with it.

For several years the show has been

afﬁliated with a good cause, research

into children's diseases. Proceeds of the

ofﬁcial show CD have gone to that cause.

This year the cause also had an ofﬁcial

spokesman, actor Rémy Girard, shown

on this page with Marie-Christine.

Girard will be familiar to worldwide

movie audiences as the man in the hos-

pital bed in the Oscar-winning ﬁlm The

Barbarian Invasions.

Did the show’s shift in venue and

orientation pay off? At show’s end

Marie-Christine told me it deﬁnitely

had, and I talked to a number of exhibi-

tors who were ecstatic…the ones in the

large rooms and salons. I also talked to

less happy exhibitors, who had found

the hotel rooms too squeezed, the

entranceways to them too narrow, and

the acoustics…well, it’s a hotel, isn’t it?

I have no idea whether the happy ones

or the unhappy ones predominated.

Notwithstanding the show’s ambi-

tions to be a sort of mini-CES, this is a

consumer show, not a trade show, and it is

therefore normal for local dealers to be

major exhibitors, albeit with the support

of their suppliers. And thus there were

large rooms backed by such stores as

Audioville, Coup de Foudre and Codell.

Not at the show was the largest of these

dealers, Audio Centre. I had heard before

the show that this suburban store would

move back to its old building (very old,

in fact) to save money. Rumor said that

it was just…gone.

I’ve often deplored that the Totem

Mani-2 loudspeaker (reviewed in this

issue) is never heard at shows. It was there

this time, in the Audioville room (see the

photo at lower right on the next page),

driven by Conrad-Johnson gear. As usu-

ally happens when it is demonstrated,

visitors commented on how amazing it

was to hear a small speaker ﬁlling that

huge space.

The official show CD, a music

sampler, is produced by a local high

end recording company, Fidelio. The

company had brought not only its own

CDs but also its Nagra master recorder,

shown on the next page. I got to hear the

master tape of a new percussion SACD

the company was launching. It’s tough

for other exhibitors to compete with

that.

Montréal 2006

by Gerard Rejskind

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