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A solo audio show in Raleigh

For years, Audio Advice Live has been an annual event, drawing enthusiastic audiophiles to the dealership’s showrooms on Raleigh’s Glenwood Avenue, next to Virgin Cigars. This year, Audio Advice Live was different. It was a fully fledged audio show, held like most such events at a conference hotel: the Sheraton Raleigh Hotel in that North Carolina city, with rooms sponsored and presented by a wide range of hi-fi and home-theater manufacturers and distributors.

What differentiated this show from any other is that it was put together by a single dealer (Audio

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