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• Will Cheng of Avolites, Niclas Ardvisson of W-DMX and Yehuda Shukrun of Compulite
• The Soundus team line up in the DiGiCo area of the booth
• Frankey Ng and Menze Van Der Sluis of Prolyte with the Tongsuh management team
KOBA
SEOUL, KOREA / 15-18 MAY
Having not visited KOBA, personally, for the last couple of years - Jamie had stepped in - I was looking forward to being back and seeing how the show had developed. Seoul was exactly as I remembered it; clean, efficient and welcoming, and I was met at the show in a similar fashion by many familiar faces. It was the 28th edition of the show this year, which takes place at the COEX Convention and Exhibition Center. It had a total of 927 companies exhibiting from 32 countries. Visitor wise, the event peaked on day three, but overall welcomed 41,616 across the four days. The exhibition offers
a professional audio hall - combined with some lighting stands - on the lower floor, while the vast broadcast section of the show is located upstairs. Most of the usual suspects were on the show floor in terms of the larger distributors - many with European representatives flying in to show their support, including Minuit Une and Music&Lights, having quite recently set up distribution deals - however, a couple of major players, Sovico and Dasan SR, were missing, and not for the first time. Some manufacturers opted to run seminars to coincide with the show, these included FBT, XTA and Shure.
• Stagetec and Merging products on display
On the event floor itself, Bose Professional was showcasing its F1 / L1 system, while Tech Data presented the CBT Series, the PRX/SRX Series and the new VTX A12 from JBL, the i-Tech Series from Crown, the SVS/N300 Series from AMX, and products from Soundcraft and BSS, too - demonstrating a full HARMAN solution. Sound Solution had an impressive booth, displaying RCF’s HDL 6-A, Adamson’s S10 line array with E219 subwoofers, and FENIX Stage’s ELV/300/6 lifting tower with new swing-arm plates. L-Acoustics distributor, Klausys had the recently
• Soundus’ DJ Kwon and Edan Kwon flank Marc Vincent of K-array
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