I want to make this a fun show for everyone and have decided to make it a free event for attendees.

If you are a vendor, please contact me for more good news about fees.

Hope to see many of you there. Thanks for your support.

Even though my rates are low, vendors are resisting to sign up. Probably because it is an "unknown" event and they are afraid of losing money.

I guess that Stereophile and RMAF will be the only larger regional shows because this is not working.

Wayne, any thoughts on this?

The vendors are charged a only few hundred dollars to have the opportunity to have one to two thousand people see, hear and enjoy their products. Hotels in California are more expensive than in OK. This is a medium sized show. A small DIY show can be pulled off on the cheap, but when you want to do a bigger show, lots of time and money has be put into advertising, promotion, mailings, sales and more.

Frankly, DIYers as a group are viewed with disdain by most of the larger manufacturers, but we will have smaller to mid-sized manufacturers with reasonable prices and special deals on parts and tubes. This show will be perfect for the audiophile DIYer who want to look for parts, sources, network, listen and just enjoy the atmosphere and energy.