2nd Annual Vancouver Island diyFEST 2005

[pinkmouse]

...i.e. Bottlehead Sex amp, the new Foreplay III, and a Seduction phono...

Hmmm. Are all you valve types frustrated batchelors?

 

[planet10]

Here is a map. Any questions?

I'm going to have Salmon (making amends for being surprised by the no-meat eaters from Seattle) & chicken wings, but i expect most will bring their own hunk of flesh for the Barbie... (knudge, knudge, wink, wink...)

dave

 

[Cal Weldon]

[Bhunk of flesh for the Barbie [/B]

Does she know this is happening?

 

[planet10]

I'm surprised no one beat me to posting pics... it took me a day of being a Zombie to (mostly) recover from the energy getting ready for the event, and for the event itself. I only ended up getting pictures of some of the stuff the next morning, so i'll start by posting a batch of Jason's photos (edited & cleaned up). This set only just touches on a few points & i hope to see more posted from Brent, Tim, & Cal to fill in the holes.

1st up... the event was dominated by speakers (as is usually the case). And there were a few. At least 22 different pairs. A couple pics to get the feel.

dave

 

[planet10]

.

 

[jleaman]

OK OK.. i have links..

From : Brent Welke > http://www.qlogics.com/audio/DavesAudio2005/

From : Jason Leaman > http://jleaman.ath.cx/Event/

 

[planet10]

The FR125 in an open baffle in the "downstairs" system (the blue & yellow specials in behind)

 

[planet10]

Brent with MM-PC

 

[planet10]

Another. the DAC on top of the 'puter

 

[jleaman]

Brent with MM-PC

NO that's Brent pointing at windows 2003 server not booting properly. and me laughing because he should have brought the mac : O )

 

[planet10]

Front-end (at one point -- things moved up & down & around & around)

Chris' RCA phono + home-brew foreplay
Jolida CD player
Jolida EL34 PP (triode)

Brent's miniA, Don's Trancendent Grounded Grid.

 

[planet10]

. another shot

 

[planet10]

some tube amps

RH34 prototype (sound good until pushed -- i'm thinking OPT overload -- parafeed next)

 

[planet10]

Don's Decware ZEN & the 50EH5 5-buck amp

 

[planet10]

Fostex FW167 & tweeter. Didn't embarass themselves at all, but parts are a bit spendy

 

[planet10]

Extremis + SEAS tweeter

 

[planet10]

inside the grounded grid, the Monster line conditioner, and the back of the WR125 + RAW ribbon

 

[planet10]

the Peter Daniel chassis/BGT gainclone. A corner of Chris' parafeed EL84 monoblocks

 

[planet10]

downstairs Front end (in it's basic state -- NAD3020, HK CD player), Rega 3

 

[planet10]

Scott's GM ML-TL, with WR125 & the Al Wooley (RAW) ribbon tweeter. preliminary XO.

The ribbon is quite a bit more sensitive than the mid-bass so tweeters were a lot hot with just a 2 uF cap. Still showed some serious potential. Later we swapped in a 1 uF cap. Still hot but if you scrunched down off axis these really started to shine. The GM box is probably tuned to low so the box will be modified (more on the low end of the WRs & FRs in some later discourse)

Also shown here is the modest Scottish CD player loaned to us by Sound Hounds for the event (a stelalr achiever, but hard to justify that for the sales tax on it you could buy 2 of the Jolidas.