Who says there's a North South divide?
Found it, in Cheshire.There is a Hifi Show in the north, it’s called the North West Audio show. There are loads of audio/Hifi shows round the country, they just don’t advertise on here.
Also Bristol is in the South West - very different the the “south” and I don’t just mean the accents
If it was about getting a large volume of people close by wouldn't London have been better?
im with uWill give this show a miss for the second successive year. I live in the Midlands and not prepared to waste another day with a 200 mile round trip ( not fun getting into Bristol during the rush hour ) viewing a lot of equipment that is frankly fanciful and out of my budget. If they moved the show to somewhere more central, then I would make the effort.
It will be interesting to see if "Denon" or "Marantz" will announce replacements for their top of the range AV amps (AVC-X8500H / SR8012) as it's been approximately two years or more since they come onto the market.
I highly doubt it ! X8500 is still as future proofed as an AVR can be ! the only 13 channel (in 1 box) of amplification offer for consumers, all object based audio formats supported, All HDR flavours supported, an upgrade program for HDMI2.1 when the SoC lands. Frankly that's already a phenomenal offering, if only they could add Roon support but again they will be competing against their own Heos.
I use the park and ride from Brislington which drops off just before the hotel. Pick up is in the same road to go back.
Hope that helps