A rare opportunity for hi-fi industry and consumers to get close to a music making experience
PMC Speakers takes the opportunity to showcase its role in music making business at a consumer show. Celebrating 35 years in business in 2026, PMC speakers will have an impressive exhibit at annual High End Show, which will be held June 4–7 in Vienna, Austria. Visitors to the show can finally explore both sides of PMC products: domestic quality hi-fi speakers and amplifiers, and studio quality control monitors, with active amplification, crossovers and DSP.
PMC operates and equips its own mixing studios — in London, Los Angeles and Nashville — and brings a taste of making music to the exhibition venue at High Show in Vienna. A purpose-built acoustically treated studio space will be on demo as ‘PMC Studio Vienna’, just for 4 days of the exhibition but fully-functional — a place to experience how the best music and film sound is mixed and producedd by industry’s top professionals.
Exclusive Masterclasses with Industry Legends
According to PMC’s pre-show announcement ‘PMC Studio Vienna’ will play host to three curated sessions per day with leading engineers, artists, industry figures as well as demonstrations of the flagship fact fenestria loudspeakers. Visitors are invited to join PMC at the scheduled sessions to hear from Grammy Award winner Steve Genewick (Bob Dylan, Diana Krall, Bastille, Gregory Porter), as he presents a ‘Behind the Hits’ story direct from inside the inner sanctum of the legendary Capitol Studios, Los Angeles.
Genewick will also be joined by PMC’s Maurice Patist, head of sales – studio, as they strip bare definitive jazz recordings and explore the technical mastery behind some of the most famous tracks of the genre.
Continuing the studio theme, Miles Showell, the master of vinyl mastering, will take a deep dive into the subtleties of his craft, including his speciality, half-speed mastering. The fenestria home loudspeaker system will showcase his work, revealing what defines exceptional analogue sound.
The renowned singer, songwriter and producer SOHN, whose fourth album Albadas (Dawn Songs) was recently released, will take up residence in PMC Studio Vienna to explore the techniques behind spatial audio from an artist’s perspective. SOHN will be conducting a live demonstration of Atmos mixing using tracks from his critically acclaimed first album, Tremors.
Within the artist theme, the Canadian singer and High End Ambassador, Dominique Fils-Amié, will be also presenting tracks from her new album, My World is the Sun, in Dolby Atmos.
In a joint statement, PMC founder and chairman Peter Thomas, and co-CEOs Tom Loader and Oliver Thomas expressed their excitement at the forthcoming celebrations, “35 years is another fantastic milestone in the life of PMC, and what better way to mark it than at the world’s leading hi-fi show. We’ll be pulling out all the stops to proudly showcase our prominent role at the centre of music creation and playback over the past three and half decades.
“With our roster of special guests and certainly a few surprises, to coin a phrase from the BBC – our very first customer – we are going to inform, educate and entertain visitors at the show with insights into music recording, mixing and mastering, alongside demonstrations of our flagship home audio speakers to show just how good music at home can sound, and how absolutely faithful it is to the artists’ and producers’ creative visions.”
Flagship PMC fenestria Demonstrations & Anniversary Celebrations
In between the scheduled studio sessions, a state-of-the-art audio system, comprising the PMC fenestria speakers, Bryston amplification, the Michell Gyro turntable, Apollo and Muse phono stage, and a high-resolution streaming source, will demonstrate some of the world’s best recordings. Steve Genewick, Maurice Patist and PMC UK’s Phil Millross will also showcase some surprising recordings to challenge perceptions of system performance.
Visitors to the High End Show are invited to register for up to two sessions per day by visiting the booking site, which goes live at 9am BST on 25th May. Alternatively, tickets may be booked in person at reception outside PMC’s room, M1.
