Here's some snaps I took at this years NW Show, held at Cranage Hall near Holmes Chapel.
Accompanied by my usual pithy but fairly useless commentary ofc.
It's a fairly big show, about 60 rooms so didn't get round everything, but this is what I've got:
First up - ATC

One of the active models, not sure which, they were quite impressive doing 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' at concert levels
----
Fanthorpes are a dealer and were showing the PS Audio Aspen FR20 powered by a whole array of PS Audio kit.

Boring music but couldn't hear them doing anything wrong. Soundstaging seemed pretty good. Needed a bigger room to stretch their legs I think.
-------
Kerr Acoustic - pro company that moved into domestic. Showing the K200 three-way with CAD front end, Music First pre-amp and Musical Fidelity power.

Kerr are here every year and on the spec should be one of the best in show but somehow they never do it for me. Boring music doesn't help.
Although this is a 'compact version' of their K100 reference it could still hit the low notes impressively. One I'd look at more closely if I had the kind of money they're asking.
-----------------
Another dealer, Brian & Trevor - I think these were active Kudos with a couple of subwoofers. Didn't except to be keen on these but they were good. Clean and effortless.

----------------
Alchris Audio - Loudspeaker manufacturer.

Had a listen to the big ones the bloke is resting his hand on in the photo, which is the TX25 three way stand mount
These were pretty good and at the price, £3750 a pair, one worth looking more closely at. Not shy in the lows and seemed to be clean and even otherwise. Seems like a lot of loudspeaker for the money.
Quite a few in the range:

They had a cool Akai RTR also, although we didn't get a go on that whilst I was there.
Amazing view of the Cheshire countryside out of the window of this room, just bushes all the way to the hills on the horizon.
---------------
Another speaker company, Ophidian Audio.
My good friend and colleague Mr Steve C was keen on getting a listen in this room but they didn't have the big ones he was interested in, instead we got the smaller new model. the Ffion.

It's a three-way, there's a bass driver hidden somewhere inside or round the back. Seemed to have potential, being airy and open, but the music was continual bland fayre so hard to really judge if they could cut it.
--------------------------
'Chasing The Dragon' - specialise in RTR audiophile recordings, nothing that's my sort of thing though. Usually they have ATC100A in here but this year using 3-way transmission line from Falcon Acoustics:

They also had this very cool Studer RTR:

With Luxman amplification. I like Luxman so here's a gratuitous pic of it

--------------------------
Doug Brady (Dealer)
There's only one thing looks better than Luxman and that's Accuphase:

Otherwise no comment here, they always have three systems playing at once. Doesn't work.
This was one of them - All components were from Burmeister:

-------------------------
Coherent Systems
Been one of the best rooms last few years, this time showing the new TAD GE-1


TAD do everything I like in a speaker and they do it well. Regrettably the price of admission is just too high for me.
-----------------------------
Some more maybe later or tomorrow. Yes, there's some more Accuphase, don't worry
Accompanied by my usual pithy but fairly useless commentary ofc.
It's a fairly big show, about 60 rooms so didn't get round everything, but this is what I've got:
First up - ATC

One of the active models, not sure which, they were quite impressive doing 'Also Sprach Zarathustra' at concert levels
----
Fanthorpes are a dealer and were showing the PS Audio Aspen FR20 powered by a whole array of PS Audio kit.

Boring music but couldn't hear them doing anything wrong. Soundstaging seemed pretty good. Needed a bigger room to stretch their legs I think.
-------
Kerr Acoustic - pro company that moved into domestic. Showing the K200 three-way with CAD front end, Music First pre-amp and Musical Fidelity power.

Kerr are here every year and on the spec should be one of the best in show but somehow they never do it for me. Boring music doesn't help.
Although this is a 'compact version' of their K100 reference it could still hit the low notes impressively. One I'd look at more closely if I had the kind of money they're asking.
-----------------
Another dealer, Brian & Trevor - I think these were active Kudos with a couple of subwoofers. Didn't except to be keen on these but they were good. Clean and effortless.

----------------
Alchris Audio - Loudspeaker manufacturer.

Had a listen to the big ones the bloke is resting his hand on in the photo, which is the TX25 three way stand mount
These were pretty good and at the price, £3750 a pair, one worth looking more closely at. Not shy in the lows and seemed to be clean and even otherwise. Seems like a lot of loudspeaker for the money.
Quite a few in the range:

They had a cool Akai RTR also, although we didn't get a go on that whilst I was there.
Amazing view of the Cheshire countryside out of the window of this room, just bushes all the way to the hills on the horizon.
---------------
Another speaker company, Ophidian Audio.
My good friend and colleague Mr Steve C was keen on getting a listen in this room but they didn't have the big ones he was interested in, instead we got the smaller new model. the Ffion.

It's a three-way, there's a bass driver hidden somewhere inside or round the back. Seemed to have potential, being airy and open, but the music was continual bland fayre so hard to really judge if they could cut it.
--------------------------
'Chasing The Dragon' - specialise in RTR audiophile recordings, nothing that's my sort of thing though. Usually they have ATC100A in here but this year using 3-way transmission line from Falcon Acoustics:

They also had this very cool Studer RTR:

With Luxman amplification. I like Luxman so here's a gratuitous pic of it

--------------------------
Doug Brady (Dealer)
There's only one thing looks better than Luxman and that's Accuphase:

Otherwise no comment here, they always have three systems playing at once. Doesn't work.
This was one of them - All components were from Burmeister:

-------------------------
Coherent Systems
Been one of the best rooms last few years, this time showing the new TAD GE-1


TAD do everything I like in a speaker and they do it well. Regrettably the price of admission is just too high for me.
-----------------------------
Some more maybe later or tomorrow. Yes, there's some more Accuphase, don't worry