AUDIO VIDEO 2023, AKA “THE WARSAW SHOW”
Jason Victor Serinus
At the risk of writing hyperbole, I will state that Audio Video 2023 was unlike any other audio show I’ve attended. At no other audio show have I encountered so many young people, so many women, and so many brands unknown in the United States. Not even in Munich have I encountered crowds as dense as those that mobbed the show’s biggest site, the National Stadium of Poland, PGE Narodowy, on Saturday. A press badge counts for nothing when you’re 11" short of 6'3", attempting to see far enough into a huge room to spy a seat. Any seat.
Happily, the majority of attendees at the Warsaw Show did not come to yap away about the stock market or the speaker they built three decades ago. People came to listen, and they respected others who came to listen. Even in the largest rooms, with crowds of some 150 people, it was possible to hear music and learn from presenters’ unamplified raps.
DAY 1
My first show experience was the night before opening day: a short preview of unusual Snell Type A replicas manufactured by Audio Note distributor Wojtek Szemis and powered by Audio Note gear. I then spent my first show day on the eight exhibition
