No Barbershop Quartet Act, AXPONA Rocks the Northwest Suburbs!

BARRINGTON, IL -- The middle aged proprietor at Barrington Barbershop was cutting my hair some time ago when he told me about his musician friend’s Leslie speaker that employs a motor to spin its treble horn and woofer for an unusually pleasing effect.

“Would you believe he spent over $2,000 for that?” he said, fascination turning to disbelief.

He would have been floored had he known that 20 minutes away, a trade show would showcase speakers ranging from several hundred dollars to $300,000 - plus, with some systems topping over $1 million in a single room.

The event? Audio Expo North America (AXPONA), which relocated from Rosemont out to Chicago’s northwest suburbs little over a month ago on the weekend of April 13-15, a move that paid off handsomely for its organizer, JD Events, which saw a 21 percent increase in attendance from last year’s show with 8,134 attendees. Held at the swank and ultra modern Renaissance Hotel and Convention Center, it wowed with its amenities and showstoppers presented by over 400 manufacturers and retailers throughout the property.

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