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VTV Audio EXPO NY/NJ Show Report by Charlie Kittleson Our East Coast Show was a total success! 1400 attendees and over 40 press passes were given out. Major positive reviews on major webzines and magazines. All 40 exhibitors and vendors were ultra-pleased and many said this was the BEST AUDIO Show they have participated in. Most said they had much better room traffic than any of our competing shows!! This was an incredible event that will long be remembered by those who attended. The relaxing atmosphere of the tropical paradise inside the Piscatawy, NJ Embassy Suites was captivating. Everyone of the vendors was very pleased and so were the attendees. If you missed this show, you missed a great event. Next time one of these shows comes to town, get off your butt and come on down! After the Expo, an exhibitor got over 20 calls from dealers who want to distribute his speakers! Plus many more got reviews in web and print audio publications and had terrific exposure to the serious audiophiles from the Tri-State Area.
Charles King, EE, giving a class on the history and maintenance of reel-to-reel tape recorders! Charles also did an informative presentation of the basics of audio test gear and how to interpret test results.
Dricoll of Staten Island with two towers of Fisher gear!
Mike Urban (corner) and Bob Pienkowski (r) of CT with lots of vintage gear, tubes, books and vintage radios!
Charlie Kittleson, VTV, with Steve Leung of VAS/Cayin Audio
Darren Hoffman of NY had lots of interesting vintage electronics at very reasonable prices!
Saurday Night Dinner with Audio friends at a great East Indian Restaurant in downtown Princeton, NJ
Steve Melkethesian of Angela Instruments gave an informative talk on changes in audio parts and componentry (caps resistors, sockets, etc.), over the last 10 years.
After the EXPO we drove over to Flushing, NY to visit the legendary basement of Ed Duda, this is just a small sampling of the massive amount of audio test gear Ed had on or near his bench.
Charlie Kittleson with Ed Duda, former Design Engineer for Lafayette Electronics, Corp, NY. Ed gave a very informative and down-to-earth talk on his years with Lafayette and audio system improvements that most people overlook.
Click on the following links for tons of photos and reviews of the show: VTV Audio and Music EXPO - New Jersey and New York 2006
Be Sure to attend our LA VTV Expo June 3 and 4, 2006 at the LAX Embassy Suites North! VTV Audiophile & Music EXPOSITION NEW YORK/NEW JERSEY May 6 & 7, 2006
Embassy Suites 121 Centennial Avenue, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854 732-980-0500
EXCITING NY VTV EXPO Exhibitors & Product Lines: AAD Loudspeakers Acoustic Horn Company Alextronix Amazon Turntables American Electronic Project, Inc. Analysis Audio USA Atohm Aryum AudioXpress Magazine Audio Path Aural Audio Bauls Audio - Bastanis Speakers/Cables Benz Phono Cartridges Cantus Speakers David Buckley Audio Darren Hoffman - Vintage Hi-Fi and Parts!! Dennon Empire Cartridges EURO Labs Gemme Audio Gold Ring Graaf Granite Audio High Performance Vintage Hi Fi Restorations JAS Audio Jasmine Audio Lehman Amplification Metropolitan Music of New York Morch NHT Speakers Red Dragon Audio Schroeder Sound Quest Starsound Technology Stillpoint Audio Supports Symposium Unison Research Urban Antique Radio and Vintage Hi-Fi Valve Amplification Company (VAC) VPI Turntables
Steve Melkithesian, of Angela Instruments will speak on the current state and future trends in audio component parts such as, vacuum tubes, resistors, capacitors, tube sockets, transformers, wire and more. Steve has been in the audio and guitar parts business for about 20 years and is a knowledgeable and entertaining speaker. This is a 60 minute presentation at 12:00 NOON on Sunday, May 7, 2006. Charles King, EE, will present the History of Tape Tecorders: History/Theory of Tape Recorders- Mechanical, Acoustical, Edison, Electro-magnetic Telegraphone, Blattnerphone/Marconi-, Telefunken Magnetophone, Ampex, Philips Cassette Tape Machines - An overview on how they work, US and Foreign Consumer tape machines, Professional Audio Machines, Standards, Favorite and Recommended Machines Tapes - Tape Formats, Materials, Widths, Pre-recorded, Mono and Stereo Tapes, Master Tapes Questions and Answers (appoximately 90 mintues on Saturday) Ed Duda, former Design Engineer for Lafayette Electronics, NY, will disccuss his years at Lafayette Electonics as a tube hi-fi and transistor equipment designer. He will also talk about the first transistor radio kit that he designed in the early 1950s. Ed is a colorful and humorous speaker with a lot of great stories and good common electronic sense. He will also give his views on the current state of consumer electronics. Another one not to miss.
Charles King, EE , on Sunday will present: Basics of Audio Test Equipment and Measurements: Safety Issues, How do you start? What Equipment is needed and what do you test for? Measurement of voltages, current, resistance, distortion, capacitance, frequency Test Equipment: Types including Multimeter, test leads, tools, variac, oscilloscope, function generator, distortion analyzer. Discussion of equipment calibration. How to measure, Electrical layout, using Variac, checking bias, waveforms OK, Sound OK, Examples
VTV 2005 Los Angeles Audio Expo Coverage (Click Here) Sonic Flare Coverage of VTV EXPO LA 2005 Audio Asylum 2005 VTV EXPO Story & Photos Positive Feedback Online Coverage of the VTV LA EXPO 2005 More Photos & VTV Expo 2005 Coverage from Audio Kinesis _________________________ Photos and Stories of VTV Audio & Music EXPO Los Angeles 2005 Story 1. Click Here for: Positive Feedback Online Coverage of the EXPO by Dave Robinson, Editor Positive Feedback-Online Story 2. Click Here for: Complete, in-depth coverage of VTV Audio Expo by Josh Ray, Editor of Sonic Flare, the newest and one of the best online audio magazines on the Internet. Great photos and descriptions of all the exhibitor rooms at the VTV EXPO!!! www.sonicflare.com Story 3. Click Here for: Audio Asylum Story about the VTV EXPO with many photos of rooms The 2005 VTV Audio and Music EXPO was a resounding success. This was the first Los Angeles regional audio and music show with both display tables and private vendor suites in many years. Over 1000 attendees and 42 paid vendors enjoyed two days of exotic audio equipment, interesting conversation, vintage hi-fi and NOS tubes, tube school and exhibitors with state-of-the-art audio equipment for their listening enjoyment. This will be an annual event in Los Angeles, so if you didn't make it this year, check our site for the 2006 EXPO which will be bigger and better. We are planning a New York Show in late April as well. Check information below.
Charlie Kittleson, Editor of Vacuum Tube Valley Magazine and Expo Director
Anita Elliott, VTV EXPO Hostess and Charlie's partner at the VTV Table
More audio enthusiasts in the main ballroom
An exotic analogue synthesizer on display from Analogue Haven.
Ron Welborne with the incredible Cogent Horn System
John Atwood teaching TUBE SCHOOL
Shane Manning and his son, Travis purchasing a G & L Guitar from Ron Moreno, G & L Guitars
Steve Slater, APEX Jr. a well-known seller of surplus electronic parts in Los Angeles
Ekkehart's Willms Vintage Microphones, Radios and More!!
Beautiful and great sounding amps from Emmille' Audio
Scott Richardson with Tekline, PS Audio and Mr Cable and his huge selection of cables and wire.
Cy Brenemann with Kent Leech, with a Sophia Tube Analyzer, had many vintage tubes for sale
Eric Barbour's New S-1000 all tube Synthesizer from Metazonix
The one & only Jack Elliano, "Mr Transformer," with his display of iron, parts & vintage audio
Steven Chow and Bill Stierhout, Quantum Products AC Power Conditioners
Positive Feedback Online Coverage of the EXPO by Dave Robinson, Editor Positive Feedback-Online
V T V L A EXPO Audiophile and Music EXPO November 19 and 20, 2005 Was a huge success!
Held At the Beautiful and Spacious Arcadia Embassy Suites Brief Show Report: (more in a few days) We had well over 1000+ attendees both days who loved the expo, visited our 43 paid vendors and bought lots of great audio and music goodies. Several vintage vendors were cleaned out in the first few hours of the show. All of our vendors were pleased with their sales. One table vendor took in over $16,000 and another took in over $10,000. Room exhibitors had steady traffic for most of the event. Lots of great networking, great tube finds, vintage gear, great deals on guitars, amps, exotic parts, speakers, home theater and cables. Everyone walked away with a smile on their face and asked when the next one is. The show had a great vibe, lots of happy people and a fun time was had by all!!! Most Exhibitors in private display rooms told us several hundred people passed through each of the vendor's rooms, reviewing amps, speakers, cables, accessories, more.
Exhibitors and Products who appeared the VTV EXPO: 65 Amps Acoustic Image AER Analog Haven Anthony Gallo Acoustics Antique Electronic Supply Apex Jr. Parts Audience/Auricaps Audiokinesis AXISS-AirTight Alextronics Bright Star Audio Cain and Cain Cogent Loudspeakers Cyrus Breneman Amps DeHavilland Amplification EdgarhornElectra-Print Audio Furutech G & L Guitars Gini Systems HiFi Home Audio Imagine Hi-Fi Jolida Jumping Cactus Loudspeakers Jupiter Condensers L A Amp Show Lovan Mr Cable Metasonix Tube Synthesizers Music Fidelity NEC Nightingale PHY-HP PS Audio Quality Rare Records Quantum Power Rex Speakers Richard Gray Power Royal Device Scow Vintage Hi-Fi Sherwood/Newcastle Shindo Labs Sonance Sonist Loudspeakers Supra Cables Tek-Line Cables Thorens The Horn Loudspeaker Company Tonian Laboratories Tono-Wired State Tube-Sonic Amplifiers VRS Audio Systems Vacuum Tube Valley Vintage Microphones Welborne Labs Western Electric Tubes Zu Speakers and Cables The VTV Audio-Video-Music Festivals are designed to open up audio shows to the general public, bringing in more buyers, dealers and small manufacturers who normally could not afford the high fees charged by other organizations. Also, we want to build a more healthy audio community with a better public image and a great networking opportunity for our passion and profession.
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