Shhh. Don’t tell anyone, but Florida has quietly become the go-to audio show for couples. There were couples everywhere, music lovers all. And if you made the natural assumption about which member was the die-hard audiophile, you could well have been proven wrong. These were very pleasant surprises, to say the least. Further, it was nice to see chivalry on constant display, as men offered the prime seat to their significant others—at least temporarily. As if that weren’t enough, there were also plenty of college-age attendees.

None of this happened by accident. Show organizer Bart Andeer had seen firsthand the varied demographics of shows like Munich and Warsaw and mourned the lack of such a show in the U.S. He couldn’t see any reason why there shouldn’t be such a show here, other than the fact that audio events are perennially marketed primarily to male audiophiles. Naturally, then, that’s who attends.

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