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1. Freddie To and Daniel Chan of d&b audiotechnik China. 2. Danny Lau of Rightway Audio Consultants representing L-Acoustics. 3. GLUX demonstrated the diversity of its products. 4. The team on the SAE stand, the company is also the distributor of Verity Audio. 5. Fabien Bareille (centre), Wayne Grosser (right) and colleague of Clair Bros. 6. Vladimir Hasman and Michal Zykan of Milos. 7. Bruce Ferguson and Emma Wolf of Darkroom. 8. The Eastar Electronic team. 9. The Beta Three team headed up by Rodger Rapsey (second from left).


PALM EXPO CHINA BEIJING


The 22nd China International Exhibition on Pro Audio, Light, Music and Technology took place in Beijing on 7-10 June at the China International Exhibition Centre (CIEC). This was the second year that Palm Expo Beijing was held at the new facilities close to the international airport.


After a turbulent start in its new home last year with many complaints from exhibitors - namely the lack of visitors - organiser IIR needed to pull out all the stops to prevent exhibitors from losing interest in the show this year. Unfortunately, the general consen- sus on the show floor was that not enough improvements were made and it’s looking likely the organiser will suffer the consequences heavily next year. For some exhibitors, witnessing the show just once in the new location was enough


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to put them off with a number of major brands deserting this year’s show. One of par- ticular note was Leafun, distributor of Robe, Avolites, Lumen Radio and RCF, which instead of taking a stand at the exhibition decided to run a concurrent workshop for its customers in a more central Beijing location. Once again, exhibitors that mondo*dr spoke to were disappointed with visitor figures. Although the buses running from the centre of Beijing out to the exhibition centre seemed to be better publicised this time, making it easier for visitors to attend, IIR still struggled to convince the numbers onto the arranged transport. The rainy weather over the four days made the show one of the wettest on record. And while IIR can’t possibly have any control over the weather, it did have conse-


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