Northern AV Show Report

The Northern AV Show was held at Ascot Gurney hotel over the last weekend of 11-12 June 2022. As part of the organizing team, it was our duty to ensure a good show for all stake holders, namely Penang State Development Authorities, exhibitors and finally the show goers.

Here's a pictorial with some personal comments below:

Officiating the Northern AV Show, from left: Ashwin, YB Yeoh Soon Hin & our very own Wilson Teoh

Getting YB Yeoh in to the AV hobby!

The show not only featured hifi, but live acts too, seen performing here is EB Duet

CMY brought all their big brands on display

Some pretty nice Canto-pop tunes coming out of this system

ProAc + Cyrus system

Center Circle Audio introducing Avantgarde speakers & HiFi Rose amongst the system

HiFi Choice brought many systems with them to the show, but this B&W + Michi system truly shines

Dali speakers also featured

Sonus Faber speakers too

Stenheim speakers with DCS hi-res player, unfortunately the hotel wifi glitch prevented this system from fulfilling it's hi-end performance 

Also present were Silbatone tube amps, Novaris PLC & Frank Ultra bank here, presented by Frankie Voon himself, and sometimes Peter Ting 

AA Audio streamers, developed locally by Dr Anwar Ali, former Intel engineer

Inside the AA Streamer

Tech X displayed desk top speakers & E1 Personal Audio presented much head fi 

Stars Picker booth was busy all with many head fi fans checking out the latest products

Double GT Audio displayed some of their gears plus offers cash & carry too 

Fine SPL display their locally designed speakers which are made in China

AFC Top HiFi has Xavian speakers & other hifi brands on demo

Hi-Way Laser was displaying all ATC system

Hau HiFi demo-ed ATC speakers with Myryad electronics

Hau HiFi also had this Ultra Short Throw project by CHiQ on display, which I found the picture quality to be rather impressive

Choy Audio showcased Yaqin amps mostly

I kinda like the looks of this tube amp, especially the meters

CCY Engineering had their impressive sounding locally designed & made amps on demo with Yamaha speakers 

Quantum Acoustics show cased their AV system with excellent surround system

Caruso Vinyl had a booth selling software to feed audio systems

At the 2nd floor main foyer, there were three levels of AV demos, including the level 7 & 22.

Overall, the show was well attended and the Penang State Development Authorities had some pretty ambitious metrics for the show. The Northern AV Show will be back next year, bigger & better!