RMAF 2012 and Free Urushi Caps

[fulken]

RMAF is next week!

Please visit Feastrex Room 1121

We are planning to give away some Urushi Caps by Teramoto-san.




Equipment Plan:
Feastrex NF9ex in F90 cabinet
Feastrex NF5ex in F60 cabinet
Feastrex FE3DQ field coil power supply
Maekawa TA-300B SET all finemet irons
Maekawa CV4055pp all finemet irons
McAudi Class-D amplifier
McAudi DSD Transport (SACD)
McAudi DSD DAC
McAudi AC Line conditioner
TVC (finemet transformer volume control prototype)
Stillpoints Ultra SS
Stillpoints ESS Rack
Zilplex room treatment

NF9ex in F90 cabinets


Kingswell hall Yamanashi Japan






Volti Audio will have their Veretta in Room 590.

Feastrex NF5 alnico in Veretta

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Yesterday, custom's broker called me, and I could pick up 300B SET at United cargo!

This amp went through several audio shows and DIY fest in Japan. You can find photo on MJ magazine.

It weight about 35Kg.







NF9ex in F90 cabinet, TA-300B SET, Modified Oppo DSD transport
Now I am waiting for Teramoto-san! He will hand carry DSD DAC on this Sunday!!!

[Gary the Grey]

Originally Posted by fulken

RMAF is next week!

Please visit Feastrex Room 1121

We are planning to give away some Urushi Caps by Teramoto-san.




Equipment Plan:
Feastrex NF9ex in F90 cabinet
Feastrex NF5ex in F60 cabinet
Feastrex FE3DQ field coil power supply
Maekawa TA-300B SET all finemet irons
Maekawa CV4055pp all finemet irons
McAudi Class-D amplifier
McAudi DSD Transport (SACD)
McAudi DSD DAC
McAudi AC Line conditioner
TVC (finemet transformer volume control prototype)
Stillpoints Ultra SS
Stillpoints ESS Rack
Zilplex room treatment

NF9ex in F90 cabinets


Kingswell hall Yamanashi Japan






Volti Audio will have their Veretta in Room 590.

Feastrex NF5 alnico in Veretta

AHHHHHHH! Yes! I love the NF5s in the Veretta! Wish I could afford the Feastrex! My wife would say no way But I could do similarly styled cabinets with Fostex maybe. Or....maybe I'll get an inheritance and buy the Feastrex NF5s!

Thanks for the beautiful post!

[fulken]

Hello Gary the Grey,

The RMAF was great! I am just back to Nashville, and recovering!

I love Feastrex drivers and I also could not afford them, and I decided to sell Feastrex!! Now I have couple of pairs in my house!

Cheers,
Kenji

[fulken]

Lucky winners are:

1.0uF: Robert Taylor
0.47uF: David Cahoon

For the people who did not win, thank you very much for taking your time at my room! I will keep your name and give you special discount for future order!

Thank you,
Kenji

[Davec113]

Kenji, just got your email, THANKS!

I have an EL34 SET amp with Mundorf silver/oil caps, should be a good comparison! I am also using Omega Super 3 XRS speakers, which are an amazing speaker for the price, if you can't afford a Feastrex these are a great option.

And thanks for the demo at RMAF, the NF5ex played one of my demo tracks (Bonobo's "Walk in the Sky") better than any other speaker at RMAF, and not just by a little bit!

[fulken]

Hello Dave!

Thanks for your kind words!

I will ship your caps in this weekend! Please share your impression @DIYAUDIO

Thank you,
Kenji

[fulken]

Sunday Oct. 7th
9:50AM, Teramoto-san flew into Nashville airport. He came to the baggage area with red bag with top secret supply from Japan! How he went through the US custom, don't ask don't tell...

Welcome to Music City USA


After we got all his luggage, we went to straight to my house and fired up McAudi DSD DAC.


McAUDI was the prime contractor for SONY professional, and they made the first discrete DSD A2D/D2A. McAUDI equipped DSD interface board on Oppo 93. Now we have SACD transport! Silver box under the Oppo is McAUDI DSD DAC.

I will write more about McAUDI on my next post


Teramoto-san also brought new AC line conditioner, co-developed with McAudi. Yes this unit also use our special finemet device!


Monday Oct. 8th
After testing all the demo equipments, we load our van and went to La Hacienda Mexican restaurant for the dinner! This was Teramoto-san's first Mexican food!

Tuesday Oct. 9th
We drove from Nashville TN to Kansas city. Our Choice of lunch was St. Louis BBQ!

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Teramoto-san @ Feastrex took me to McAUDI in this spring. After we ate amazing noodle at Yokohama China town, we went to MacAUDI. Masahiro Yamaguchi is the man at the McAUDI, brand name for Dai-ichi Tsushin Kogyo Co.,Ltd.

Sony Esprit to modern Class D amplifier:
Dai-ichi Tsushin Kogyo Co.,Ltd was the prime contractor for SONY. If you are visiting RMAF, you know about SONY Esprit amplifiers. It is one of Yamaguchi-san's design. Esprit amplifier had switching mode power supply (Pulse Locked Power Supply). If you have question for Sony TA-N901, Yamagushi-san is the man.

McAUDI has over 30 years of experience with class-D circuit for Audio. Now we have his latest digital amplifier, McAUDI M1002 for RMAF2012

SACD Transport & DSD DAC:
His company also designed the first discrete DSD AD/DA coveter for SONY. They spent over one million dollars for 8 prototypes. Some lucky people had some chances to listen this DAC, they said even today it is one of the best sounding DSD DAC.

After we rediscovered superior sound quality of DSD over PCM, McAUDI developed DSD interface card for Oppo, SACD Transporter and DSD DAC. This DSD DAC can also take SPDIF, USB input and more... We have the first production pair in here RMAF.

Discrete Op-amp:
When I was at McAUDI, I was sniffing around his office. I found many interesting toys. Feastrex NF5ex, Ray Audio Studio monitor, and SONY Studio monitor (one specially designed for SONY founder, Mr. Morita). Yes I listened all of them! I was not shy at all!!

One of his desk had some kind of modules. I did smell something good and asked him about it. It was his discrete Op-amp module. His company designed many recording equipments, and the Op-amp was originally used for SONY mixing consoles...

Yes! his extraordinary Op-amps are available for your DIY projects!

Cheers,
Kenji

[fulken]

Thursday Oct. 11th

Right after 7am, We finished exhibitor registration and start loading our equipments from loading elevators. At 8am we could start playing!!



Around 9am Bruce Jacobs showed up with Stillpoints ESS Rack with Grid technology!! He helped us assembling their new rack. It is bit more complicated than older style rack with acrylic board, but this new model sounds so much better!





Final touch was done by Zilplex room acoustic treatment.



Wiebe Greydanus of Zilplex is setting up his silver cups!






We, Audiophile has great taste for music, but people in Japanese spa has better touch for room decorations. I hired Kaz from Ten Thousand Waves for the task! Kaz did great job in our room!





While we were listening and looking at equipment, they (ladys) could try out hands lotions and candys! Oh what a concept!

Here is the link to Ten Thousand Waves They are located Santa Fe, NM. Great get away spot!