For the last time, hi-fi’s most important trade show was held at Munich’s Event Center Messe (MOC), before being relocated by the High End Society to the larger (26 000m2) Austrian Center Vienna (AVC), in the center of the Austrian Capital from 2026.
For this latest edition, over 10 000 trade visitors and 11 000 individual visitors made the trip to enjoy the systems of over 500 exhibitors, divided over 4 halls and 3 floors, as well as in some rooms of the Motorworld located just opposite.
During this 2025 edition, the show showed more reason than in the previous two years, with products that were often geared towards the high-end, but also towards the search for ever greater improvements in listening conditions and precision. This dynamic was felt not only in the ultimate systems from certain brands (CH Precision 10 Series, Wilson Audio WAMM, YG Ultimate Gemini, Esprit Lisa & L’Esprit, Aurender N50, Stenheim Reference), but also in the new products presented by the majority of companies, starting with our French « belles » Atoll, Absolue Créations, Davis, Diptyque, Esprit, Jadis, Kora, Metronome/Audirvana, Solen, Totaldac and Qobuz and its new Qobuz Connect application, present throughout the show.
An opportunity to celebrate some major anniversaries (65 years of Audio Technica, 100 years of Luxman), this edition also saw the reappearance, thanks to historic distributors, of Koetsu cells (interview VU#60) and the Platine Verdier. In just over 230 pages, we invite you to take part in this journey, where dreams go hand in hand with the very finest engineering, with the same goal in mind: to enjoy the greatest music recordings in the best possible conditions.
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