As Marja & Henk already reported from the Doelen Lente show in Rotterdam earlier this year, KR Audio introduced the first push/pull amp for their current lineup, a 70wpc 4xKT88 integrated shown here in SE trim to the left (gold-plated details and different tube cage) and standard to the right. The KT88s are KR's own of course.

The first Kronzilla ever sold is now 10 years old and still runs on the original set of tubes. Dutch importer Cor Dekker brought it to make a point.

Eight 1610 double triodes in a system don't happen every day. This was the other thermionic high roller suite.

Krell had a static display with two amplifiers that seemed quite unkrellish - at least if one hadn't paid attention to the company in a while as yours truly. Bad dog said Ivette as she yanked my chain.

KWO Audio from Germany showed their Melange stands.

Lansche already featured in the intro but here's another shot of their smaller models.

Leben showed with Blumenhofer Acoustics but the static black/silver amps and preamp in this photo are prototypes of Blumenhofer's own electronics (ETA not yet firm).

Lexicon and surround sound are nearly synonymous, meaning our publication is only marginally acquainted. It's hard enough to get two channels right in a finely dialed home hifi - why bother with five or more? But that's just my opinion. Many whose hearing I trust keep reminding me that 5-channel SACD done right spells sudden death for stereo. With vinyl dead and hifi dead, it's become quite the cemetery, hasn't it? Thankfully, actual trends paint a quite different picture.

Lindemann rose to fame with his SACD player many years ago but it wasn't long until the line fleshed out to include everything necessary ahead of the loudspeakers. That includes cables.

Live music. Show management in Munich is always on the ball to remind visitors what the real things sound like. From the United Blues Experience of Wolfgang Bernreuther on vocals, guitar and dobro, Rudi Bayer on double bass and Beata Kossowska on vocals and harmonica to Allan Taylor playing from his new SACD Leaving at Dawn in the Stockfisch Records and Inakustik hall to the Walking Act of Aneta Moran, Susanne Jäger and Sabine Bürger below who exemplified mobile hifi as a girl-power marching band, there was no shortage. Bravo show management and performers!

Here are some men at work preparing for the event. It's always the back-room guys behind the scenes who never get any luv. A hand of applause please for these Stockfisch Records gents who went the extra mile.

The room before the audience filled it up.

If you're a stock fischer, this is home, sweat home Alabama. Actually, Northeim.