All Hi-Fi Audio & Video Shows
Explore the world’s leading Hi-Fi, audio and video shows in one place. Discover every event associated with each show, including current and upcoming editions across different locations, as well as an archive of past events and links to videos from previous editions. These events are central to the high-end audio industry, offering opportunities for product demonstrations, technology launches, and direct interaction with brands. Use this resource to track important audiophile events, plan your attendance, or stay informed about the most significant happenings in the global Hi-Fi community.
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Northern International Audio & Visual Show
Northern International Audio & Visual Show is a Malaysian specialist event based in Penang. Its first edition was held in 2022, and the second followed in 2024, establishing a new regional platform for high-fidelity audio, visual technology and related lifestyle products in northern Malaysia. The show is supported by the local convention and tourism ecosystem and has quickly aimed beyond a simple dealer gathering, presenting itself as an international event for both enthusiasts and industry participants.
The program combines equipment demonstrations with talks, panels and live performances, giving visitors more than a sequence of listening rooms. International and Asian brands appear alongside regional distributors, while topics extend from traditional two-channel hi-fi to digital audio, home entertainment and industry trends. Penang’s position as a major travel and technology hub also gives the event potential to attract visitors from neighbouring Southeast Asian markets. The show is still young, but its.
November Hi-Fi Show
The November Hi-Fi Show began on 27 June 2004 as an informal record swap organized around the Filipino online audio community WiredState. That modest gathering grew into the country’s best-known annual hi-fi event, reflecting a local scene with deep enthusiasm for vinyl, tube amplification, DIY engineering and carefully restored vintage equipment. Its origin matters: the show was built by enthusiasts first, and that community character still distinguishes it from more corporate exhibition formats.
Over time the event expanded to include major international brands, local distributors and a particularly interesting group of Filipino designers and small manufacturers. Visitors can hear modern digital systems beside analog and home-built equipment, browse records and meet many of the people who keep the local audio culture active year-round. The atmosphere is social and music-centered, closer to a large annual reunion than a formal trade fair. For international observers, it also offers a rare view of a.
Oslo HiFi Show
Oslo HiFi Show is a young Norwegian event that has grown quickly into the country’s largest dedicated hi-fi exhibition. The first edition was held in 2023, and the organizers describe the 2027 event as the fifth edition, confirming the show’s recent origin. Based at Thon Hotel Oslofjord, it was created to give Norway a regular national meeting point for serious audio after years without a large-scale show of comparable scope.
The exhibition covers a wide range of price levels, from accessible systems to costly reference equipment, with national and international exhibitors using hotel rooms and dedicated spaces for demonstrations. That breadth is important in Norway, where a strong interest in design, technology and music has long supported specialist retailers but has not always been matched by large public events. The show’s rapid growth in attendance and exhibitor participation suggests that it filled a genuine gap. Its role is now both commercial and cultural: a place to compare products, meet.
Pacific Audio Fest
Pacific Audio Fest is a three-day celebration of music and high-performance audio, bringing together leading audio manufacturers, designers, dealers, media, and music lovers from across North America and beyond. The 2027 show will take place January 15–17 at the Hyatt Regency Lake Washington at Seattle’s Southport in Renton, Washington.
Under new ownership, Pacific Audio Fest is entering a new chapter with a new venue, expanded exhibits, live music, and a renewed focus on creating an enjoyable experience for both serious audio enthusiasts and anyone who simply loves great music. Visitors can experience world-class audio systems in dedicated listening rooms, discover new products, meet the people behind the brands, explore vinyl and personal audio, and enjoy live performances throughout the weekend.
More than a traditional trade show, Pacific Audio Fest is designed to be a music lover’s experience, combining exceptional sound, direct access to manufacturers and designers, and the relaxed, welcoming atmosphere of the Pacific Northwest.
Paris Audio Video Show
Paris Audio Video Show launched in 2018 as the successor to Festival Son & Image, carrying forward more than four decades of French audio exhibition history. Held at the Palais des Congrès de Paris since 2022, it brings together high-fidelity audio, home cinema, video and music under one roof. Visitors can explore complete systems, discover new products and speak with the people behind the brands.
The show extends beyond stereo listening rooms and home cinema demonstrations. Since 2024, it has also featured musical instruments, DJ equipment, lighting and live sound, alongside headphones and personal audio. Talks, hands-on workshops, artist appearances and concerts make it a place to experience music as well as explore the technology used to reproduce it.
The public programme is complemented by a dedicated day for audiovisual and entertainment professionals. The 2025 edition welcomed 33,450 visitors, and more than 500 French and international brands were confirmed for 2026. This mix of consumer demonstrations, live events and industry exchange makes the show a major meeting point for France’s audio and video community.
Shanghai Int’l Audio & Video Show
Shanghai International Audio & Video Show, commonly known as SIAV, was founded in 1993 and is one of mainland China’s longest-running high-end audio exhibitions. Organized in central Shanghai, it developed over more than three decades into a broad industry event covering hi-fi, home cinema, records and digital products. Its longevity is significant because it spans the period in which China changed from a relatively small specialist market into one of the most important manufacturing and consumer markets in global audio.
SIAV brings together manufacturers, distributors, dealers, specialist media and end users, giving international brands direct access to Chinese listeners while also providing domestic companies with a highly visible home platform. The show combines hotel-style listening demonstrations with larger display and software areas, so visitors can move between complete systems, accessories and music. Industry activities and live events have increasingly become part of the program. The result is.
Sound Society
Sound Society is a Danish hi-fi and high-end audio show created to bring music lovers, manufacturers, distributors and audio specialists together in an environment focused on listening and experiencing complete audio systems. The event presents both Scandinavian and international brands and covers a broad range of equipment, from accessible hi-fi systems to uncompromising high-end installations.
A key part of the Sound Society concept is giving visitors the opportunity to hear complete systems, compare different approaches to sound reproduction and meet the people behind the products. The show has continued to grow, attracting an increasing number of exhibitors and brands. For 2027, Sound Society is moving to VINGSTED Hotel & Konferencecenter in central Denmark, providing approximately 3,400 m² of exhibition space and capacity for more than 150 hi-fi brands. The larger venue reflects the event’s development from a regional gathering into an increasingly international audio exhibition.
Southwest Audio Fest
Southwest Audio Fest held its inaugural edition in Dallas in March 2024. Created by experienced US audio-show organizers Gary Gill and Lou Hinkley, the event was designed to serve Texas and the wider southwestern United States, a large market that had relatively few major dedicated hi-fi exhibitions. The first show used the Hilton Anatole and attracted a broad mix of established high-end brands, specialist dealers and smaller manufacturers, immediately giving the new event national visibility.
The show follows the listening-room model rather than a conventional open-floor trade fair, which allows large loudspeakers and complete systems to be demonstrated with more care. Its organizers also brought over the relaxed, exhibitor-friendly philosophy associated with Capital Audiofest and Pacific Audio Fest. For visitors, the key benefit is geographic: world-class equipment can be auditioned in Dallas without travelling to Chicago or the coasts. With a strong first edition and a large regional audience to draw.
StereoNET Hi-Fi & AV Expo
StereoNET Hi-Fi & AV Expo (London) is the current UK event created from the consolidation of established British audio-show assets under StereoNET management. StereoNET acquired the UK Audio Show and the re-established London Audio Show in 2024, and the combined London format returns under the StereoNET Hi-Fi & AV Expo name in 2026. It therefore carries older show heritage, but the present brand and organization should be treated as a new chapter rather than dated back to StereoNET’s 2016 Australian show.
The London expo is designed as a broad home-entertainment event covering hi-fi, turntables, streaming, headphones, home cinema and related products. Backing from StereoNET gives it an unusually strong media platform and international reach, while the Heathrow location is intended to be accessible to both UK visitors and overseas exhibitors. The merger also simplifies a previously fragmented show landscape. Its significance lies in combining long-running British exhibition experience with a modern.
T.H.E. Lone Star Audiofest
Lone Star Audiofest began in 2005 in Tulsa under the name Great Plains Audiofest. After two editions there, the event moved to the Dallas area in 2007 and adopted the Lone Star Audiofest name. For years it built a reputation as one of the most informal and DIY-friendly events in American hi-fi, giving small manufacturers, experimenters and independent designers an affordable place to demonstrate equipment without the pressure or cost structure of a large commercial show.
In 2025 the event entered a new phase through a partnership with T.H.E. Show, becoming T.H.E. Lone Star Audiofest. The goal is to preserve the original festival’s grassroots character while adding the marketing reach and organizational resources of a larger national show brand. That history is important: its identity comes from direct contact with builders and unconventional products rather than luxury spectacle. The updated format can therefore function as a bridge between established commercial audio, small-scale craftsmanship and the.
T.H.E. New York International Audio Show
New York International Audio Show was launched in 2012, when Chester Group and the late Richard Beers helped return a major specialist hi-fi event to the New York market. After a long interruption, the show was transferred to T.H.E. Show’s organization and revived for the New York–New Jersey area, carrying forward the original event’s East Coast identity. Its history is therefore discontinuous, but the 2012 debut remains the correct starting point for the modern New York show lineage.
The event serves one of the largest concentrations of audio enthusiasts, dealers and media in North America. Its purpose is straightforward: give manufacturers and distributors a place to demonstrate ambitious systems to an audience that normally has to rely on individual dealer appointments or travel to other cities. Under T.H.E. Show, the New York edition also connects with a wider network of events in Southern California, Texas and Las Vegas. That national structure gives the revived show more reach while preserving its.
T.H.E. Show SoCal
T.H.E. Show traces its history to 1996, when the original Home Entertainment Show debuted in Las Vegas as an independent high-end audio event running alongside CES. Richard Beers later became the central figure behind the show and expanded it to Southern California, where the Newport-area edition became especially important to the brand. The current SoCal show carries that broader T.H.E. Show lineage rather than beginning in 2012, and the organizer now describes the event as approaching three decades of history.
Today the Southern California edition combines traditional high-end listening rooms with personal audio, home theater, records, seminars, live music and other cultural programming. Its character has always been more informal and community-driven than a conventional trade fair, with established manufacturers sharing space with boutique companies and experimental designers. That variety suits the Southern California market, which has a large enthusiast base and a strong creative industry. SoCal.
TAA Hi-End Audio Show
TAA International Hi-End Audio Show is organized by the Taiwan Audio Association and is one of Asia’s longest-running annual specialist audio events. The 2026 edition is identified by the organizer as the 36th show, which places the beginning of the series in 1991. Over that period the exhibition has become a major meeting point for Taiwan’s unusually active audiophile market, bringing together international imports, domestic companies, distributors, dealers and specialist media.
The show typically occupies many hotel rooms and function spaces, allowing more than a simple static display of products. Visitors can hear complete stereo systems, digital and analog sources, headphones, accessories and selected video or car-audio products, while the event also maintains a strong tradition of commemorative music releases for attendees. Taiwan’s role as both a technology manufacturing center and a sophisticated high-end consumer market gives the show wider regional importance. It is a useful window into Asian.
The Bristol Hi-Fi Show
The Bristol Hi-Fi Show was founded in 1987 and has become one of the defining annual events of the British audio industry. Created by Audio T’s Tony Revelle, it was conceived as a place where customers could see and hear new products from many manufacturers before they reached individual shops. More than three decades later, that purpose remains recognizable: the show brings a very broad cross-section of the UK market together under one roof at the start of each year.
Bristol’s strength is breadth rather than exclusivity. Major British and international brands appear alongside accessories, vinyl, headphones and more affordable systems, making the event relevant to newcomers as well as experienced enthusiasts. The central hotel format is busy and sometimes crowded, but it also creates the energetic atmosphere for which the show is known. Generations of UK listeners have used Bristol to discover products, meet designers and compare systems, so the event functions as both a commercial showcase and a.
The Headphone Show
WORLD OF HEADPHONES is the specialist headphone exhibition created by the HIGH END SOCIETY. It premiered as a dedicated area at HIGH END Munich in 2022 and quickly proved popular enough to expand into standalone events in cities including Heidelberg and Essen. The Heidelberg edition takes the concept out of the giant international hi-fi show and places it in a more focused environment where personal audio can be compared directly and at leisure.
The format covers the full modern headphone ecosystem: wired and wireless models, in-ear monitors, portable players, DACs, headphone amplifiers and accessories. Listening tables are central to the experience, because visitors can try many products side by side rather than relying on specifications or reviews. The event also attracts specialist retailers and distributors, creating direct contact between consumers and people who work with the products every day. Its rapid growth reflects the wider transformation of headphones from a secondary hi-fi category into one.
The international OEM Show
IPS – International Parts + Supply is the HIGH END SOCIETY’s dedicated B2B supplier show for the audio industry. It premiered in 2022 alongside HIGH END and was created for companies that normally sit behind the finished products seen by consumers: makers of drivers, electronic components, connectors, cabinets, materials, production services and other specialist technologies. Unlike a public hi-fi exhibition, IPS is aimed primarily at manufacturers and professional buyers looking for suppliers, engineering partners and production solutions.
The event benefits from running alongside the main HIGH END show because many of the relevant decision-makers are already in the same venue. That creates a compact marketplace covering much of the audio manufacturing value chain, from component technology to contract production. As HIGH END moved to Vienna in 2026, IPS moved with it and continued to develop its cooperation with organizations such as ALTI. The correct historical context is therefore not a generic.
Tokyo International Audio Show
Tokyo International Audio Show has its roots in 1983, when the organization now known as the International Audio Society of Japan began holding the Import Audio Show. In 1997, after leading Japanese manufacturers joined the association, the exhibition adopted the Tokyo International Audio Show name and moved into the Tokyo International Forum. This history explains the show’s distinctive balance: it began as a showcase for elite imported products but evolved into a meeting place for both international and Japanese high-end audio.
TIAS is respected for its disciplined, listening-oriented atmosphere and carefully selected exhibitor base. The event is smaller and more controlled than many Western shows, with visitors often waiting for scheduled demonstrations in rooms where setup and presentation receive considerable attention. Major Japanese companies use it to show new reference products alongside renowned European and American brands. For international visitors, TIAS offers a particularly clear view of.
Toronto Audiofest
Toronto Audiofest launched in 2018 as a new dedicated high-fidelity show for Canada’s largest metropolitan market. It emerged as the earlier TAVES event came to an end and was developed by the team behind Montreal Audiofest, bringing a proven hotel-show model and a stronger focus on audio itself. The first edition quickly attracted much of the Canadian specialist industry, establishing the event as the natural annual meeting point for manufacturers, distributors, dealers and listeners in Ontario.
The show combines conventional loudspeaker rooms with analog, digital and personal-audio exhibits, including the Earvana headphone-focused area. Canadian brands receive strong representation alongside international products, giving visitors a useful picture of both the domestic industry and the wider global market. The atmosphere is intentionally accessible, with children admitted freely and a strong emphasis on direct conversation and listening rather than sales pressure. Toronto Audiofest has therefore become.
UK Hi-Fi Show Live
UK Hi-Fi Show Live is a long-running British high-end audio event whose modern identity is closely associated with Hi-Fi News and organizer Paul Miller. The show spent years in hotel venues around Windsor before making a major move to the Grandstand at Ascot Racecourse in 2019. That change provided larger demonstration spaces, better separation between rooms and a more distinctive setting, while continuing the event’s established focus on premium two-channel audio and direct access to designers and brand representatives.
The Ascot format is deliberately more curated than a broad mass-market electronics fair. Reference systems, analog playback, headphones, records, seminars and specialist presentations are presented in an environment aimed at serious music listeners. The event has also faced unusual interruptions: the pandemic prevented planned editions, and the 2022 show was cancelled following the death of Queen Elizabeth II because Ascot is part of the Royal Estate. Its return reinforced the show’s.