The Burning Amp Festival- an Audio Happening

[mpmarino]

I think next year we must and will have workshop on metal working with Magura as separate event.

Now THAT is a great idea! We don't even have to ask Magura to do it - we will make him do it!

 

[RKH]

I'm anxiously awaiting details for SY's pre amp! I hope we don't have to wait until Burning Amp '08 ;o)

Ryan

 

[WBS]

I'm anxiously awaiting details for SY's pre amp! I hope we don't have to wait until Burning Amp '08 ;o)

Ryan

 

[lousymusician]

I want to thank everyone who put this on, and everyone who came. This event was so much fun, I had to tear myself away when my ride came at 7pm. I lay awake in bed later, still thinking over all I saw.

There were probably tens of thousand of hours of labor in all the different pieces, in total. It was a joy and gift to be able to hear so much incredible, home-made equipment in one place, and I am definitely going again next year. Don't do anything different!!

Well said!

I'd like to give a shout out to the owner of the Metronome's (with Hemp FR8's) - they were incredible. They were my favorite speaker of the whole day, by a good margin, and I wasn't the only one. The total synthesis of the music they made was a wonder to behold. We played them loud, and they really held their own. They were definitely more then a sum of good characteritics (fr, dynamics, soundstage..) At one point, someone had their Rega Planar 25 playing Ricky Lee Jones, and it was incredible. IMO, the best setup the whole day in terms of overall naturalness, body and musicality. Then, someone switched in the LossLess CD player, and it was very interesting to hear the difference. Educational, to say the least.

Lousymusician, they were yours I believe. Congrats!

Thank you, you are too kind! And more importantly, thanks to Scottmoose and planet10 for publishing the Metronome design, and Tubelab for his amp board - all I can take credit for is trusting their talents and building them as directed.

What are those brass/wood things? (post 622)

See post 55 of this thread - and thank you again, Magura! I hope we can meet again next year!

I also want to give a nod to the BOFU BIB's - they were the only speakers to give me the chills. At less then $100 for the pair, they were great. Not just for kids.

I liked them too - they captured something in the scale and power of a piano I haven't heard often. Not bad for speakers meant to love in a barn!

Anyway, thanks again to everyone. It was so much fun, my girlfriend still hasn't stopped hearing about it... [/B]

Nor my wife, or co-workers!

Bill

 

[AR2]

I'm anxiously awaiting details for SY's pre amp! I hope we don't have to wait until Burning Amp '08 ;o)
Ryan

SY left right after the BA event home to take business trip - red eye - early morning flight to Europe. He will be there I believe week or two. Do not take it hard if you have some delay in getting the details on his preamp.

 

[wrenchone]

And remember the hacker's credo - hack first, document later.... Sy had a rough schematic at BA - I'm sure he'll share it when he gets back.

BTW, greetings to the "Eye Lady".

 

[jacco vermeulen]

we will make him do it!

How about taking Morten hostage at the next event so that we can all have some of them Danish Smörebuttons ?

 

[PSz.]

Burning Amp '07 was incredible. I will remember it fondly for the rest of my life, and I look forward to future Burning Amps with great excitement. HUGE thanks to everyone who made it happen and all who attended.

I always prefer to thank people in person. This year I finally got to thank Nelson for the Zen articles and all of the knowledge he has shared. I hope to thank him next year by bringing something I built with my goodies from this year.

best regards,
PSz.

 

[Iain McNeill]

I'd like to give a shout out to the owner of the Metronome's (with Hemp FR8's) - they were incredible.

+1!

Bill, I too was blown away by your metronomes. They adhere to the spirit of monogamous amps (one amp - one driver) that I believe in (me = triamp) but you had such incredible sound from that one driver - must be the perfect phase coherency you achieve with no crossover!

I'd really like to measure your speakers to see what they are doing. Maybe we could set up a norcal group to all take open field measurements of the same speakers at the same time and compare all our results - a sort of measurement calibration round robin to see if we all measure the same thing? Would need some ground rules but I'd be happy to chair such an event. We could then self certify!

Anyone else interested in such detail?

 

[hifiZen]

Okay, finally got my photos together... here we go:

 

[hifiZen]

Variac's speakers...

 

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And his F4 amps...

 

[hifiZen]

Up in the rafters, we had some carefully engineered acoustic treatments...

 

[hifiZen]

Jan, Matt and myself set up some small speaker demos in the side room, Grahame provided the Transporter + wireless setup to use as the source, along with FastEddy's Oppo everything-player (CD, SACD, DVD-A):

 

[hifiZen]

Here's the side room demo. From left to right: Matt's 90dB-efficient MTMs (outside pair), very impressive sound/$ ratio, and nice veneer job, my Krutke (Zaph Audio) Seas L18 speakers, Floor: the C-UGS preamp running off three bench supplies, Matt's Foreplay preamp on top of Jan Didden's error-correcting power amp, on top of the FirstWatt F3.

 

[hifiZen]

...and a closeup of the amplifiers & source components:

 

[hifiZen]

...and here we are having a listen...

 

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back out in the main room...

 

[hifiZen]

up at the front, some of the components on demo toward the end of the evening...

 

[hifiZen]

Lots of goodies to browse through at the back of the main room, although by this point, things were getting a little picked through... but plenty still left...