London had two shows happening at
the same time in September 2000! Our virtually live
coverage of the Hi-Fi News 2000 show and this Live 2000 event kept us quite
busy indeed! While the Hi-Fi News show was held at the Novotel Hammersmith
hotel, the Live 2000 Event was at the Earls Court Exhibition Centre. A quite large
convention hall where there constant droning sound of various presentation and
music filled your ears. This Event is more a broad consumer-based show. From
home and auto hi-fi to cellular phones, MP3 devices and video games, Live 2000 was most definitely
a more "mainstream" show where only a small amount of specialty
high-performance audio could be experienced. Still, we at Enjoy the Music.com
did find some very interesting pieces. The Event's floor was broken down into
five distinct zones. The Warner DVD Experience, Hi-Fi and Home Entertainment,
Online Pavilion, Telecoms World, Intelligent Home all offered various consumer
products and services. Most zones had sponsors who had very large displays
filled with everything from gameplay finals to a car audio competition (by the
UK's counterpart of America's IASCA, CSA). Being an IASCA judge myself, i
found that the UK seems that the UK autos are right on track with what America
currently offers.
Yes, this was most definitely a mainstream show, yet we at Enjoy
the Music.com found quite a few "world's first
look" for quite a few pieces! Please come join us at many of the sights Live
2000 Event had to offer. As always...
Enjoy the music,
Steven R. Rochlin
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