2nd Annual Vancouver Island diyFEST 2005

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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.

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. another shot

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some tube amps

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

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

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

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Extremis + SEAS tweeter

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

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

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

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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.