Thursday 13/03/08
Groundhog day. Wake up. Shave. Breakfast. Put suit on. Get Tram. Trek the long corridors to Hall 8.0 – its almost like I never left.
Once again Chris is straight into meetings. Mine start a little later so I’m once more talking to walk up customers.
Meanwhile the demo has had a new noise limit slapped on it because of off-site complaints yesterday. Our suspicions are that the line arrays are being carried by the gale force winds and dumped somewhere on the French border. Its either that or our bass is undermining the financial centre of the city! The new limit sucks – it is now LEQ of 95dB over 20mins, with a max SPL of 100dB. We might as well take most of the TA-500t system down. And guess what, despite this not being what we signed up, and paid for, there’s no recompense! Paul and Danny work on some new demo music that better suits the level limited system. Despite the signal lights on the amps and controllers barely coming on, those distributors and their customers who understand systems appreciate the quality and coverage of the system.
More talking about FlexArray, Dendritic and Polyhorns to the hordes of interested parties. Another “interview” with foreign press – this time for a Russian magazine. More distributor meetings plus informal meetings with distributors I’ve already had meetings with. More coffee, more Apfel San and more breadsticks.
In between talking to customers I sometimes catch the eye of an industry colleague and have chance for a quick catch up and gossip before being pulled back to the world of FlexArray. Amazing what you can find out on the floor of a tradeshow!
The day continues in much the same vein. Soon it is time for plans to be formulated about the PSNE Annual Pop Quiz later that evening. This is a traditional form of “entertainment” which involves large chunks of the British Pro Audio business, an Irish bar in Sachsenhausen, alcohol and obscure music trivia questions. It is a good release following the intensity of the past few days of the show. Its also a good chance to catch up with old friends from the industry.
Its now far too early in the morning, I’m trying to get bodies out of a Taxi at our hotel and get to bed. We came second in the Pop Quiz thanks to the combined efforts of myself, Chris and Guy Lewis from Audioforce. To celebrate a party of assorted industry types found a Cuban bar and some Mojitos, plus a bottle of the winnings – hence the bodies in the back of the cab.
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