{"id":1149,"date":"2026-10-26T07:01:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T07:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbscable.com\/en\/2026\/10\/26\/plase-show-vietnam-audio-cable-buyers-guide\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T07:07:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T07:07:52","slug":"plase-show-vietnam-audio-cable-buyers-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbscable.com\/th\/2026\/10\/26\/plase-show-vietnam-audio-cable-buyers-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"PLASE Show Vietnam: The Audio Cable Buyer’s Guide (Hanoi & Ho Chi Minh City)"},"content":{"rendered":"

PLASE Show is where Vietnam’s professional audio and lighting market does its annual buying. It runs two editions a year \u2014 Ho Chi Minh City in May, Hanoi in October \u2014 and for a cable supplier it is the most efficient week of the year to meet distributors, rental houses and installers in one place.<\/p>\n

This guide covers what the show is, when each edition runs, and what to check before you specify cable for a Vietnamese project.<\/p>\n

What PLASE Show is<\/h2>\n

PLASE stands for Professional Lighting And Sound Equipment Show. The 2026 edition was the 14th, and it is the largest international exhibition of professional audio and lighting equipment in Vietnam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Item<\/th>\nHo Chi Minh City edition<\/th>\nHanoi edition<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
2026 dates<\/td>\n15\u201317 May 2026<\/td>\n17\u201319 October 2026<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Venue<\/td>\nWTC EXPO International Exhibition Center, Binh Duong Ward, Ho Chi Minh City<\/td>\nVEC Exhibition Center, Dong Anh, Hanoi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Opening hours<\/td>\n10:00\u201320:00<\/td>\n09:00\u201319:00<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Scale (Hanoi 2026)<\/td>\n\u2014<\/td>\n~13,000 m\u00b2, ~250 booths, 12,000+ visitors expected<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Focus<\/td>\nSouthern market and surrounding provinces<\/td>\nNorthern market, with an outdoor line-array demo area<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The Hanoi edition is the larger of the two and includes an outdoor performance area where line array systems are demonstrated at volume. That matters for cable buyers more than it sounds: a system demonstrated outdoors is a system whose cable runs are long, and long runs expose capacitance and shield quality in a way a showroom never does.<\/p>\n

Why the two editions are not interchangeable<\/h2>\n

Buyers who attend only one edition see half the market. The southern edition draws distributors and installers working on hospitality, karaoke and entertainment projects; the northern edition draws the rental and touring companies and the outdoor event market. The specification conversation differs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Application<\/th>\nWhat changes in the cable specification<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Karaoke and hospitality install<\/td>\nFixed runs, short lengths, jacket appearance and termination quality matter more than weight<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rental and touring<\/td>\nHandling, coil memory, jacket abrasion and connector retention matter as much as the copper<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Outdoor and event<\/td>\nJacket material, UV and water exposure, and the ability to re-terminate on site<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Houses of worship and theatre<\/td>\nLong installed runs, low capacitance, and consistency between production batches<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

What to bring to a cable booth<\/h2>\n

One printed page per product, with four lines. This is the single change that turns a show visit into a purchase decision:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Construction<\/strong> \u2014 conductor count, size in mm\u00b2 or AWG, stranded or solid.<\/li>\n
  2. Screening<\/strong> \u2014 none, foil, braid, spiral, or a combination.<\/li>\n
  3. Jacket and environment<\/strong> \u2014 jacket material, outer diameter, and where the cable lives.<\/li>\n
  4. Delivery format<\/strong> \u2014 reel, drum, pull box or coil, and length per unit.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    A factory will read all four lines and mark what it can build. A trading desk will nod at all four and quote from a list. That difference is the most valuable thing you learn at any show.<\/p>\n

    Five questions to ask at the stand<\/h2>\n
      \n
    1. Give me the model code, not the category.<\/strong> “DMX cable” is a category. A model code is a repeatable purchase order. LBS builds single-shielded DMX512 models such as the 128 \/ 2 \u00d7 0.35 spiral-shielded construction<\/a> and double-shielded variants across its DMX and lighting control range<\/a>.<\/li>\n
    2. Which part of the cable carries the shield?<\/strong> Spiral, braid and foil behave differently at the end of a long chain, and the answer changes the capacitance figure.<\/li>\n
    3. Show me the conductor.<\/strong> A strip-back sample on the counter tells you stranding, copper colour and whether the foil is bonded. A catalogue photo tells you nothing.<\/li>\n
    4. What is made on your own line?<\/strong> Extrusion, stranding, braiding and assembly are separate capabilities. For OEM work, see how LBS describes its OEM and ODM process<\/a> and its manufacturing and quality process<\/a>.<\/li>\n
    5. Send the datasheet by email.<\/strong> A file you can archive is a file you can hold a supplier to. A photo of a monitor will not survive your purchasing system.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Specifying network and loudspeaker cable for Vietnamese venues<\/h2>\n

      Two cable families cause most of the after-sales conversations in this market.<\/p>\n

      Network cable for audio over IP.<\/strong> The category label is a claim until the datasheet shows conductor size and bandwidth. LBS publishes screened and unscreened models as LBSFTP-C6A<\/a>, LBSSFTP-C6A<\/a> and LBSUTP-C6A<\/a>, and the full network cable range<\/a> covers Cat5E through Cat6A. For fixed installs the shield type decides whether the cable tolerates being run beside mains; for touring the jacket decides whether it survives the truck.<\/p>\n

      Loudspeaker cable.<\/strong> The loudspeaker cable range<\/a> covers 2-core and 4-core constructions from 0.5 mm\u00b2 to 6.0 mm\u00b2. For long installed runs the conductor size matters more than the brand printed on the jacket, and for rental stock the jacket compound matters more than either.<\/p>\n

      Connectors are specified separately because termination changes the answer more than the copper does \u2014 the LBS connector range<\/a> is listed on its own for that reason.<\/p>\n

      LBS AudioCable at PLASE Show<\/h2>\n

      LBS (Linkwell Broaden Sonitive) Guangdong Cable Technology Co., Ltd. exhibited at both PLASE Show editions \u2014 Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi \u2014 in 2026 and in 2025, showing professional audio cable across its loudspeaker, audio signal, DMX and lighting control, network, AV and connector ranges. At the Hanoi edition the stand was in Hall 6, stand T18<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

      Buyers who want to work through a specification sheet outside the show dates can send it through the enquiry form on this site. The same four lines \u2014 construction, screening, jacket, delivery format \u2014 apply whether the conversation happens at a booth in Dong Anh or by email.<\/p>\n

      A broader set of buyer-facing guides on specification, termination and selection is collected in the resources section<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      PLASE Show is Vietnam’s largest professional audio and lighting exhibition, running in Ho Chi Minh City in May and Hanoi in October. A buyer-side guide to what the show is, how the two editions differ, and what to check before specifying cable.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical-guides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbscable.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbscable.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbscable.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbscable.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbscable.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lbscable.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"https:\/\/lbscable.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbscable.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbscable.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbscable.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}