There were crowds of visitors again this year at the Sound & Vision Bristol Show to see first hand the latest in Hi-Fi and Home Cinema as well as integration and numerous other related products. This is the 19th year for this event, which is the first major exhibition on the calendar in the UK, to be followed by CEDIA UK in June and What Hi*Fi? / Stuff in November (see our Special Reports Section as well as our Video Clips).

High-end is the key word again so don’t miss the Meridian 17,000 £ D-ILA technology projector or the 1080p projectors on demo from ProjectionDesign (above) and Sim2.

On the high-end was Linn, as ever, and when speaking of speakers this year, the Nucleus Reference 3.1 from Anthony Gallo (photo below), at 2995 £ a pair was a very original design that caught our eye.

Also for those up-market, not to say almost unlimited budgets, there were the Quad 2905 (6,000 £) and Quad 2805 (4,500 £) electrostatic loudspeakers.

The key attraction at Denon was the unveiling of their (photo below) new receiver AVR-2807 (800 £) as well as showing the Denon AVR-4306 AV receiver (1,500 £). Also a big attraction was the Denon the high-end universal disc DVD player, DVD-A1XVA. 

AudioLab (photo below) had its 7-channel power amp, 8000X7, on display (you may enjoy our video clip interview last November, at the time it was a scoop) with a price of £1,500 as well as the 8000AV processor. 

Judging by the crowds, the KEF KHT3000 series looks to be a, or THE, big upcoming success story, combining quality with a very reasonable price, offering a speaker system that will fit in the lifestyle and the “normal” global Home Theater budgets of many households. The newly designed subwoofer you can admire in the photo below, and you will want to listen to and see our recent exclusive interview and detailed presentation of the KEF KHT3000, click HERE.

The photo below is the new B&W CM1, boasting this British manufacturers’ image for quality sound, which will also fit in reasonable budgets.

You can admire of all the following brands in our Photo Report :
Acoustic Energy, Appolo, Arcam, Artison Speaker, AudioLab, B&W, Car Intro, Chord, Cyrus, Decorative Art Blurb, Denon, DND, Anthony Gallo, Hi-Fi Choice, Hi-Fi Plus, Icon Audio, Ixos, Jules Quad, Linn, Meridian, Moon, Myryad, Naim, Nbien, NEAT, Neuros, Nordost, Onkyo, Pinish, PMC, Profigold, ProjectionDesign, Public Pay, Pure, Q Acoustics, QED, Red-Line, Rega, REL, Revolver, Sennheiser, Sim2 Multimédia, Slee, Soundstyle, Storex, TCI, TEAC, Uvem, Velodyne, Vivante, What Hi*Fi?, Yamaha…

CLICK HERE to see the complete Photo Report of the Sound & Vision Bristol Show 2006.