Yelamanchili manohar
Well-Known Member
Hi all 
This idea springs from a UK show, where members of a certain UK forum, congregate every year, in a hotel with their own domestic systems over a weekend of fun. This event takes place in a hotel, and is open to public.Though tickets to public are sold, to recover the expenses incurred by the forum managers, who take the risk of booking the hotel etc...
So the basic idea is that, a hotel is booked with removable beds and furniture , with rooms big enough to house a full fledged music system and enough electrical sockets and WiFi coverage to house a streaming system. Some trade manufacturers like audio Note also setup their systems, albeit at additional costs.
And the number of rooms is declared in advance of 8 months . Larger rooms cost more than smaller rooms. And the admins have to pay the hotel 6 months in advance. Since the details of the hotel and room sizes is declared 8 months in advance. Forum members have 2 months in hand to confirm their attendance, and pay for their rooms. The admins accordingly book, just the requisite number of rooms.
Once done, folks start arriving from all corners of England on Saturday morning, lugging their kit in their respective cars and trucks. Some directly book a room and arrive on friday itself. It is supposed to be a moment of camaraderie, when everyone helps everyone to unload their kit and shift them to their respective rooms. Then the day is spent setting up their systems in a unfamiliar room as best as they can. The whole time, there is lot of idle banter and fun. Once the systems are setup, beer flows. And everyone visits every other person's rooms to hear their system.
Come Sunday morning, the show is open to public from 10 AM till 5 PM. Though I admit that there are not enough foot falls to be honest. So these chaps keep listening to each others systems, followed by a curry night on Sunday for those who are staying back and leaving on Monday morning.
At the ground floor of the hotel, are stalls from vinyl and CD sellers, which apparently do great business. And forum members also bring along kit they want to sell.
So all in all, it seems to be fun. And I know some forum members in the UK who are in their 70's now, and find it difficult to carry their kit, but still make this annual priligrimage every year. Looks like they live and look forward to this show, year after year, to have some fun. And most importantly, meet their far away located friends from the forum.
I was wondering if it's possible to have a similar hifi Vision enthusiast show in india, a HFES if you want to call it. My kits not easy to transport, mostly very sensitive tubes and extremely heavy speakers at 120 kgs +. Hell even my CD player weighs 38 kgs, and that's still way lighter than my TT setup. But iam still game to risk lugging all this, if I can meet forum members I've known for years, only by their forum handles. And we mad hobbyists can spend 2 days listening to each others setups.
One risk is that, once the first show becomes a hit....we might be addicted for life

This idea springs from a UK show, where members of a certain UK forum, congregate every year, in a hotel with their own domestic systems over a weekend of fun. This event takes place in a hotel, and is open to public.Though tickets to public are sold, to recover the expenses incurred by the forum managers, who take the risk of booking the hotel etc...
So the basic idea is that, a hotel is booked with removable beds and furniture , with rooms big enough to house a full fledged music system and enough electrical sockets and WiFi coverage to house a streaming system. Some trade manufacturers like audio Note also setup their systems, albeit at additional costs.
And the number of rooms is declared in advance of 8 months . Larger rooms cost more than smaller rooms. And the admins have to pay the hotel 6 months in advance. Since the details of the hotel and room sizes is declared 8 months in advance. Forum members have 2 months in hand to confirm their attendance, and pay for their rooms. The admins accordingly book, just the requisite number of rooms.
Once done, folks start arriving from all corners of England on Saturday morning, lugging their kit in their respective cars and trucks. Some directly book a room and arrive on friday itself. It is supposed to be a moment of camaraderie, when everyone helps everyone to unload their kit and shift them to their respective rooms. Then the day is spent setting up their systems in a unfamiliar room as best as they can. The whole time, there is lot of idle banter and fun. Once the systems are setup, beer flows. And everyone visits every other person's rooms to hear their system.
Come Sunday morning, the show is open to public from 10 AM till 5 PM. Though I admit that there are not enough foot falls to be honest. So these chaps keep listening to each others systems, followed by a curry night on Sunday for those who are staying back and leaving on Monday morning.
At the ground floor of the hotel, are stalls from vinyl and CD sellers, which apparently do great business. And forum members also bring along kit they want to sell.
So all in all, it seems to be fun. And I know some forum members in the UK who are in their 70's now, and find it difficult to carry their kit, but still make this annual priligrimage every year. Looks like they live and look forward to this show, year after year, to have some fun. And most importantly, meet their far away located friends from the forum.
I was wondering if it's possible to have a similar hifi Vision enthusiast show in india, a HFES if you want to call it. My kits not easy to transport, mostly very sensitive tubes and extremely heavy speakers at 120 kgs +. Hell even my CD player weighs 38 kgs, and that's still way lighter than my TT setup. But iam still game to risk lugging all this, if I can meet forum members I've known for years, only by their forum handles. And we mad hobbyists can spend 2 days listening to each others setups.
One risk is that, once the first show becomes a hit....we might be addicted for life
