Hong Kong High End AV Show Opens 7 August With Innuos's Full Nazare Stack, a Soulnote Flagship Phono Stage and an Astell&Kern Debut

The Hong Kong High End AV Show 2026 opens on Friday 7 August and runs through Sunday 9 August at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai, with exhibitors due to fill Hall 3, the S2 and S4 series meeting rooms and the Chancellor Room. In the run-up to opening day, several exhibitors have confirmed what they'll have on show, and the announcements so far lean heavily on digital front-end gear — a multi-box streaming stack, a streaming DAC, a portable player — alongside a flagship phono stage and a floorstanding loudspeaker as counterweights.

Doors open at 10am and close at 7pm on Friday and Saturday, with a shorter 10am-to-6pm window on Sunday. Admission is HK$100 per day, and organiser Audio Technique has said every ticket includes a copy of the 2026 The Perfect Sound hybrid SACD. Audio Technique has also said to expect a number of Hong Kong debuts of high-end hi-fi across the weekend, though no exhibitor count or floor-plan total has been published.

Innuos brings the complete Nazare stack

Innuos will use Listening Booth X08 in Hall 3 to demonstrate its complete Nazare Full Stack, according to Hifi Pig and The Absolute Sound. The stack comprises three components from the Nazare Series: the Nazare Music Streamer and Server, the NazareNET audiophile network switch, and the NazareFLOW modular reclocker and converter. Innuos describes the roles of each box as follows — the streamer/server forms the basis of the system, the network switch manages the digital signal path, and the NazareFLOW reclocks and converts the signal before it reaches the DAC. For the Hong Kong demonstration, the NazareFLOW will be fitted with the ProISL module for MSB, one of several dedicated modules Innuos says the FLOW platform is designed to support, alongside options for CH Precision and EMM Labs. Innuos frames the demonstration as an illustration of the part a high-quality digital source can play within a complete hi-fi system, rather than a claim about how the system will perform on the day.

Aria Audio pairs Audiovector speakers with Soulnote and iFi

At booth X20, distributor Aria Audio will bring together three brands — Audiovector, Soulnote and iFi Audio — according to Hifi Pig.

• Audiovector R 5 Arrete floorstanding loudspeakers: Audiovector states a frequency response of 23Hz–53kHz and sensitivity of 90dB, and specifies an AMT tweeter with carbon fibre sandwich drive units. These figures are manufacturer-stated specifications.
• Soulnote E-3 MC phono stage: Soulnote describes the E-3 MC as its current flagship phono stage. It uses the company's Type-R circuit design and three independent transformers, and is compatible with MC, MM and optical cartridges.
• iFi iDSD Phantom: a streaming DAC and headphone amplifier priced at HK$35,999. The sources describe it as offering high output power without specifying a wattage figure.

Debuts: Astell&Kern's PD5 and Audionostrum's Saturn

Astell&Kern will give its PD5 digital audio player its public debut at the show, according to Hifi Pig; the PD5 succeeds the A&norma SR35 and uses eight DAC chips, with no price yet announced. It's covered in more detail in a separate article on this site.

Elsewhere, Audionostrum will give its Saturn its Asia premiere at the show, per Hifi Pig's news listings. Beyond the name and the fact of the premiere, no further details have been confirmed at this stage.

A digital-leaning preview, so far

Taken together, the confirmed announcements ahead of opening day skew towards the digital front end: Innuos's three-box streamer, switch and reclocker stack; iFi's streaming DAC and headphone amp; and Astell&Kern's portable player debut. The Soulnote phono stage and Audiovector's floorstanders are the clearest analogue and loudspeaker counterweights confirmed so far. That's worth stating as an observation about what's been announced this week rather than a claim about the show as a whole — plenty of exhibitors have yet to detail their plans, and Audio Technique has indicated there will be more Hong Kong debuts to come.

For readers wanting coverage once the doors actually open, Hifi Pig has said its Jon Lumb will be reporting from the show; that will be Hifi Pig's own coverage, not ours. A full list of exhibitors and the floor plan is available via Hifi Pig's exhibitor listing.

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