No offense taken... none... it takes a lot more to offend my "sensibilities".... although that amp with the four vacuum tubes and all those mosfets on the heat sinks almost offended by "sensibilities"... besides, to me, The OC is "Paradise".
The drive was actually very smooth, only slow traffic in that short stretch where the 580 and 80 coexist... north of Berkeley, is that it? Once on the 5 it was all 85 mph, even through the Grapevine, SF Valley, LA... 101->580->5->605->405->Paradise....
naw....
Cyclotron... that's what it was.... maybe like run 300Bs as front end?
Take care.... it was fun talking to you... you're the beer guy, right? Not the guy "working with his back"... Yeah... I know, that was indeed a bad joke on my part.
The drive was actually very smooth, only slow traffic in that short stretch where the 580 and 80 coexist... north of Berkeley, is that it? Once on the 5 it was all 85 mph, even through the Grapevine, SF Valley, LA... 101->580->5->605->405->Paradise....
naw....
Cyclotron... that's what it was.... maybe like run 300Bs as front end?
Take care.... it was fun talking to you... you're the beer guy, right? Not the guy "working with his back"... Yeah... I know, that was indeed a bad joke on my part.
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I used that story but about Max Planck from the time he got his Nobel.
Great story!
Jan
haha, I did not realize you were that Tony! I had a great time talking to you. I am the the guy who makes money on his back. I worked the corner on Saturday night and made a few bucks.
Oh, this was a FANTASTIC Burning Amp! Meeting all the folks and getting to hang out with all of you has quenched my soul! I think I will be happy for a while. We have a special thing here. Let's keep it going.
I got home last night after an hour's drive. Hoping everyone else made it home safe. And if you are still in Petaluma, hope you have a safe journey home.
Thanks to Tom, Penny, Jim, Nelson, Mike, and the rest of the crew for making this event possible. Thanks to @nikon f for keeping our room organized--very important. Special shoutout to the
gang: @Ben Mah @pinholer @Monk55 @mordikai @poseidonsvoice @tomchr @Dennis Hui @Jerdy @Skip Pack , George, Francis, Owen, Adrian, Graham, Paul, Terry, Greg, Dennis V (and some others whom I've probably left out).
I got home last night after an hour's drive. Hoping everyone else made it home safe. And if you are still in Petaluma, hope you have a safe journey home.
Thanks to Tom, Penny, Jim, Nelson, Mike, and the rest of the crew for making this event possible. Thanks to @nikon f for keeping our room organized--very important. Special shoutout to the
gang: @Ben Mah @pinholer @Monk55 @mordikai @poseidonsvoice @tomchr @Dennis Hui @Jerdy @Skip Pack , George, Francis, Owen, Adrian, Graham, Paul, Terry, Greg, Dennis V (and some others whom I've probably left out).It was a fantastic BAF.
The parts matching/selection required make it a pretty difficult amp to construct.
I didn't catch who bough it, but congratulations to the member for getthing a very special amplifier...and for contributing to funding for BAF.
Hah! That's the power of the DEF amp for you.
The parts matching/selection required make it a pretty difficult amp to construct.
I didn't catch who bough it, but congratulations to the member for getthing a very special amplifier...and for contributing to funding for BAF.
Sunday in the large room, The acoustics were wanting to be better.
With the microphone and PA the room was full of echoes and unintelligible. Without the microphone and PA presenter voices were way to low (SPL) to be heard.
Thanks DT
Hello Tom,
Real nice looking in person. Looking for your YouTube.
I might want to add a 4-pin XLR output.
Thanks DT
Yes, that's true, but fortunately it wasn't being used as a demonstration room. My understanding was that the mic was causing echo for the Zoom participants - I didn't find it to be a problem in the room itself, but the mic did keep cutting out.
Yeah, house sound can wreak havoc on folks who are not "in the house." And I don't imagine that the house sound system had a pre out so there was likely no way to send any signal to the laptop. Messy. Possibly next time the first stop for the microphone signal should be the laptop, then run a cable from the output to the house sound. Not sure. Would love to have been there and try to make it right. At any rate, the final solution to simply stand near the laptop was brilliant. Maybe diymicrophones has a solution for us!
Agreed, this was the bad sound Burning Amp, at least in the big hall on Sunday. Lots of reverb, the house sound system was a disaster (in wall speakers optimally placed to maximize echo, house mics kept cutting out). Then for a 3 minute period in the middle of Andrew Jones talk we overloaded the house internet while uploading Nelson's slide deck. In live productions only the paranoid survive. The scariest sentence in the English language is "It should work, I don't know any reason why it shouldn't!" The smaller Meeting Room would have been much better
On the other hand, the acoustics in the three listening rooms was much better than Fort Mason. That was the good surprise.
-Tom-
On the other hand, the acoustics in the three listening rooms was much better than Fort Mason. That was the good surprise.
-Tom-
