Week Eleven : Wherein We’re Off to EXPO!

For a dude so obsessed with the newest technology, I am surprisingly primitive in my little urges and drives. A bit of a Throwback is what they call it. Those who would have been better born as cavemen. I know some that get miserable in the winter through what’s termed SAD or seasonal affective disorder and my dad has a special daylight lamp he uses in winter to help stave off winter blues. So I know it’s genetic for me too and as the day length increases and the Snowdrops then Daffodils and finally tree blossom shows, so rises my own sap and my heart as it means the onset of the time we can open our windows and play our tunes to cows and passers by in commercial jetliners.
The show season kicked off with Ultimate Dubs yesterday (11th March 2012) and there’s lots of shows to come but the one I am horny for right now is the annual EXPO of Mobile Electronics News, or M.E.N. magazine, for whom I write a column called Rayner Rants. It was once called Car Audio Retailer but as the market moved towards all the other stuff to allow dealers to survive parking sensors and Bluetooth, it was renamed to reflect the wider nature of things. I’m there to report on half the companies and also to do some schmoozing of my own for Talk Audio as lots of those that really matter go there to exhibit to the visiting dealers. Sadly, the experiment wherein it was tried with one public day failed as it was weekday and we don’t have the draw of Gadget Show Live. So it went back to trade-only.
So I’ll keep this one short and let you know that as well as recent additions to the Talk Audio Site Associates’ band, in the shape of Matrix Audio and Digital Designs, we can announce that Kenwood Electronics are going to be getting back on board as well and we can bring you news of the new equipment in their 2012 season line up, immediately after the show. Mind you, I am due to go see a very posh set of Focal Home speakers on the Thursday for Home Cinema Choice, so it might be a day or two after but it’s all looking very cool right now.
I have some getting ready to do for EXPO myself with packing, getting some Duracells in for my Canon and taking my lad to cash in his vouchers and loyalty points at GAME as sadly they look like they might be about to go west today
Adam Rayner Online Editor