Naim - NBL / 500 system, very dynamic and clear, but shouty and hard. Good on drums! 5 Series, seem pretty good on short listen. Both quite impressive, but sounded cold and clinical. Not as good sound as Hammersmith.
DNM / Living Voice - Not bad for a speaker with a port, but sounded boxy and coloured. Played music reasonably well and had scale.
Electrocompaniet / Castle - Very relaxing, but quite interesting. Enjoyable, but needed more get up and go. Would like to hear the CD player on its own.
Rega - The little system down stairs sounded excellent for the money when used with the P3, with the CD it sounded a bit wrong, but still good value. Whole lot was under about 1400 quid. Upstairs system with the P25 and big new speakers did not work well at all.
Densen - Danes in not boring shock. Totally knocked me out. For a measly 1.8k their pre-power sounded utterly fabulous and played music incredibly well with fantastic PRaT. They were using JM Labs Mini-Utopias (costing 4K), plus the prototype of their new 2.4k CD player. I loved this system. Absurdly good value amplification.
Music Works - I finally met Larry from Audio Counsel! Decent bloke indeed, despite Mana hating friend. Their plug board definitely does something audible, I would need to investigate much further to know if it is for me. Roger (an occasional lurker here) was pretty convinced by their board / leads.
The record stall - Landed a very rare Kraftwerk album, see my music of the week post. Good records at a hi-fi show, what ever next…
Tony.
PS Shame I did not meet any others from here - I missed Dave Cattlin by minutes in the Music Works room...