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There’s plenty to do and see, should you decide to extend your trip beyond the three days of the show.
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The Sobieski is located in Warsaw’s business district, only a mile-and-a-half from the historic Old City. Remember, too, that you’re not stuck in an office park far from the interesting part of the host city or a convention center chosen for its proximity to an airport. An Uber ride from the airport to the hotel is in the neighborhood of $5, and it’s hard to spend much more than $50 for a meal at even the top-rated restaurants in Poland’s most cosmopolitan city-$20 to dine out is more like it. I stayed at the elegant but comfortably modern Sobieski Hotel (now a Radisson) that’s the AV Show’s headquarters, and the price of my room most nights was around $70, including a phenomenal breakfast buffet to fortify you for the audiophile rigors of the day ahead. The price of a three-day pass to the show, for example, is 60 Polish Zlotych (PLN), or about $15.50. First of all, by the standards of those visiting from North America, Western Europe, and Asian countries with strong audiophile constituencies, Poland is a very inexpensive destination. The Show has been growing organically for 23 years to become what it is now.”īeyond the numbers, there are several other characteristics of the Warsaw show that make a longish flight-about eight hours from JFK to Warsaw’s Frederic Chopin Airport-well worth it. “This is just a hobby for me, as I have another company in a different business, which has allowed me to organize it in a budget-friendly way. “I don’t make a living running the Show,” Mokrzycki told me. No-frills promotion.) Speaking of crowds, Mokrzycki reported a few days after the event concluded that AV Show 2019 had attracted a record 14,238 unique visitors, and that the event’s 178 rooms, nearly 200 exhibitors, and over 660 brands were all new highs as well. (It seems very Eastern European that the nation’s leading audio magazine is called AUDIO and the audio/video show perennially drawing big crowds is simply “Audio Video Show,” with the appropriate year appended. Think of this report as “reconnaissance.”Īdam Mokrzycki, a senior contributing editor for AUDIO, Poland’s longest-established specialist hi-fi magazine, has been connected with the AV Show since its inception in 1997.
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You can be sure that we will field a full team for more traditional show coverage in November 2020. TAS had never been to the event before and I traveled solo to Warsaw, more to gather impressions than to scribble down model numbers and prices.
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The Polish show is aimed directly at consumers-hobbyists obsessed with good sound and its capacity to advance the cause of good music. Munich is first and foremost about commerce-manufacturers meeting dealers and distributors, new products being introduced to the audiophile world via the conduit of a charged-up audio press. The Warsaw show is not to High End München what Avis was to Hertz back in the 1960s. The opportunity to cover Warsaw’s Audio Video Show 2019 was pitched to me this way, by both the editor-in-chief of this magazine and the event’s organizers: “It’s the second biggest audio show in Europe!” Sort of brought to mind the longtime tagline for the Avis car rental company, “We Try Harder.” But once the three audio-packed days in Poland’s capital had run their course, I concluded that the analogy really wasn’t apt.