March 2019 News
John Bamford honoured with Honorary Fellowship at Bristol Hi-Fi Show
The Clarity Alliance honoured the late John Bamford during the seventh annual “Best of Show” awards at T he Bristol Hi-Fi Show, bestowing its Honorary Fellowship award on the hugely respected and greatly missed journalist. Awards were also presented to exhibitors for their displays and demonstrations at the show and a special presentation was made to Simon Byles for his services to Clarity, the UK hi-fi trade association. The Honorary Fellowship was awarded to the late John Bamford, former Hi-Fi Answers and Hi-Fi News journalist, Hi-Fi Choice editor and Pioneer and Meridian product specialist. Presenting the award, Clarity’s chairman, Tom Barron, said: “John was one of hi-fi ’s great guys, with a love
of music, hi-fi and a true gentleman. His warm smile, passion and enthusiasm and his huge contribution to the British hi-fi industry make him a very worthy recipient of the Clarity Honorary Fellowship. He will be very sadly missed.”
Receiving the award on behalf of Mr Bamford was Paul
Miller, Editorial Director of AVTech Media and President of EISA.
He commented: “John’s elegant and communicative writing style was a boon to Hi-Fi News and his voice will be sorely missed. Although John had a varied career in hi-fi , he remained a true audiophile throughout.” Elsewhere at the show, Clarity’s team of anonymous judges visited every room to facilitate the presentation of the “Best of Show” awards. The winners were:
“Best Sounding Hi-Fi Room” – Linn; “Best Home Cinema Room” – PMC; “Best Presented Room” – Henley Audio; “Best Innovation” – Sony; and “Best of Show” – Dali. Also marking the contribution of Simon Byles to
Clarity, Tom Barron presented him with “Honorary Life Membership”, and said: “Simon was a board member of Clarity’s predecessor, BADA, the British Audio Dealers Association, for many years and its last chairman. He was instrumental in the rebrand and relaunch of BADA, into Clarity as an all-encompassing hi-fi industry trade association and for that, and his dedication to the hi-fi industry, we are delighted to recognise him with this special award.”
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SIRIUS BUYING GROUP APPOINTS NEW GENERAL MANAGER
Major buying group in the electrical appliance and kitchen retail industry, Sirius Buying Group, has announced Mark Veysey as its new General Manager.
PMC’s award-wnning listener experience at Bristol
PMC treated visitors to an exclusive show at the Bristol Hi-Fi Show by playing never before heard Dolby Atmos music, supplied to PMC straight from the studio, for exclusive use at the event. In addition, PMC’s room, which also won the Best Home Cinema room award in the Clarity awards, was at capacity for the duration of the event for both the Atmos presentations and the two-channel demonstrations using the twenty5 series and the company’s award-winning cor integrated amplifi er. The event also saw the UK debut of the Bryston SP4 processor, that was very well received by visitors, and
used with PMC’s multi-award winning twenty5 series loudspeakers, which also showed off their two-channel prowess in conjunction with the cor amplifi er. As
the speakers of choice for
Universal Music’s Dolby Atmos mixing suite at the world-famous Capitol Studios
in LA, PMC showcased a truly authentic Atmos experience to the visitors that attended the show. The surround speaker system was expended into a 7.4.2 Atmos system. Subwoofer duties were handled by a
twenty5.sub and two professional twotwo sub2s for additional LFE required in the very large room. All speakers were powered by Bryston amplifi cation.
Appointed with effect from 1 February with the intention of bringing a heightened level of commercial expertise to the group, Mr Veysey will be responsible for helping Sirius Approved Members and Suppliers to take full advantage of the different business services available from the group. In
addition to facility management,
Mr Veysey will also provide an added layer of support to Sirius, emphasising its unique ideology and loyal mind-set and culture which defi nes the group.
Prior to this new position at Sirius Buying Group, Mr Veysey spent seven years with Retra. This led to him taking a consultative role at Retra, advising and training members on warranties, fi nance, FCA compliance and many other business issues relating to the electrical retail sector. Preceding this, his career spanned over 15 years within the building materials sector in various senior and managerial positions. Mr Veysey commented: “I am thrilled to have joined the team at Sirius, in particular during this current exciting growth phase where I hope to further strengthen the services and support supplied to our members. My aim is to create strategies that support the growth plans of the group and profi t from my broad based business experience to date.”
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