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Oh yes, there are definitely different kinds of live music but definitely the slogan of this year's High End show "better than live" missed the point not only to my personal opinion. I hope that next year's show promotion will be organized by the High End society again instead of hiring an external PR agency.

If anyone from the responsible PR company would have listened to the live music from the gipsy band that from time to time played in changing locations all over the MOC area they wouldn't have hat that idea... Dynamics, pace, timing, swing , low frequency pitch definitions and tonal colours. Everything you can think of - live and of course unmatchable by any kind of reproduction!

The High End society itself again did a very professional job in supporting the exhibitors and running the show. The athmosphere continously improved since the show moved from the Frankfurt Kempinsky hotel to the Munich MOC.

So the gipsy band even played to "audiophile standards", something that the accordeon player in the bavarian local bar where we arrived around half past eleven maybe did not even know about. Believe it or not: his performance was not lacking a bit of fun. We all got text sheets and sang along with the music.

Following a good tradition that we established in Frankfurt some years ago I was out one evening with Terry O'Sullivan and Nigel Pearson from Loricraft and Martina Schoener

who developed the L'Art du Son record cleaning fluid and also handles the German distribution of Garrard turntables and Loricraft record cleaning machines. The picture on the right shows Martina Schoener, Terry O' Sullivan and Thomas Doerner (left to right) Great evening and very long too. We left around three in the morning or so having to be up quite early some hours later.

Terry had introduced us as the "British Olympic drinking and talking team" as he did the year before. What a surprise: we were recognized again and treated perfectly. I am already looking forward to next year...