The Burning Amp Festival- an Audio Happening

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Vix

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Sorry Papa, I couldn't resist! Perfect for the avatar :D
 

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Variac

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Zen Mod and his "Smokin'" sausages. See, I got him the proper stone slab!
People got a choice - stone or charcoal fired..
My son in the red shirt.

Hard to tell in the photo, but it was a beautiful day even though rain was predicted. The next day my brother got married on a sailboat in the bay
-still beautiful. Monday- Rain!....lucky. I'm pretty tired. Thank you all who volunteered.

Mark
 

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Bksabath

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As Maighty Zen is clearly not adverse to bodily contact with others (actualy he sems to enjoy such quite a fair bit )

Where is the picture with Papa?:D:D:D
Bear hugh would winn the prize IMO

Also Is that an enviromental HSE issue that the barbequee (at least it lokks to me) is cold? Maybe not even Lit

Maibe SIC powered heat sink could do better job?

Do not mind me and my silly jokes I am Just jalous that I am not there.
Jokey silliness is endemic near Liverpool

Keep them camming
 
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Bksabath

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Mikorist tanks the top one almost there for my collection of knick nacks and such
but not good enough to join the chalk Ludvig Van repro Jet

Second one maybe for more private collection...

We want bear hog but hand shake may do

That sorry but Papa face prety serious there
Maybe thinking what a plonk...
 
6L6

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vix said:
I kindly ask anyone who attended this BAF and heard Nelson's Slot Loaded Open Baffles to write a few comments about their sound. I am very curious,but no one commented anything yet...
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The Slot-loaded OB's sounded just as you would expect... Big, open, effortless, punchy, dynamic, musical, all in all, very nice indeed. :D Also, even though it sounds cliche, they were not boxy at all. Everything else there, save the Orions, sounded boxy by comparison. The beast of a thousand jfets had no problem driving them, and although it would have been nice to hear them biamped with an active xover, the passive was very good.

I think, however, their WAF is measured in negative numbers... ;P

If I had a dedicated room, I would build them today.


c2cthomas said:
Errrrrr - I hate to ask this - but how much do you know about Electro Static Discharge (ESD) and MOS devices????
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Yeah - I know exactily what you are talking about. Hopefully there were no stray zapps, I have no real idea how I could replace them... :(
 
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Variac

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I never stop moving at the show, so just an impression, but while I was in Nelson's room, they would catch my ear each time as sounding very good. Punchy, not boomy bass. The rest like other full range open baffles. Bass/full range integration v. good. I was a bit sceptical thinking that having just a bunch of bass drivers without the slot would be just as good, but now I'm wondering, the bass was so nice..

The slot has more WAF/SAF than 8 bass drivers visible, so a winner in that regard too IMHO

Mark
 
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Variac said:
I never stop moving at the show, so just an impression, but while I was in Nelson's room, they would catch my ear each time as sounding very good. Punchy, not boomy bass. The rest like other full range open baffles. Bass/full range integration v. good. I was a bit sceptical thinking that having just a bunch of bass drivers without the slot would be just as good, but now I'm wondering, the bass was so nice..

The slot has more WAF/SAF than 8 bass drivers visible, so a winner in that regard too IMHO

Mark
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I agree. The system seemed limited in SPL, but that's to be expected with a small open baffle arrangement. I thought the beast with a thousand jfets sounded fantastic on this speaker arrangement (my favorite amp of the day).

The beauty of the bass slot is that the baffle can be much narrower than if the woofers faced forwards. All in all, this experiment proved valuable and will remain etched in my thoughts for many years to come.

Since there's no A/B comparison, one can only speculate what other woofer arrangements might present.
 
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