Burning Amp 2024!

My travel to BAF has begun. Hanging out at the airport on my way to Santa Rosa. TSA was curious why I had all the "computer boards" in my carry on 😛
None of their business.

Back in 2022 I attended a wedding while I was in San Francisco for BAF. The agent at immigration asked me "do you have any friend here?" and I said "Yes, I have a friend, she lives here". "Is she your girlfriend?" "No" 5 seconds of silence... "you can tell me if she is there is nothing wrong with that" "I am here for her wedding!" "Congratulations for being the bridegroom!".
 
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Here is how we will fill the rooms with audio systems:

Preschool Room-large systems, this room will be available on Saturday after the Speaker Camp class is done.

Club Room-for small and desktop systems, and testing of Zenductor amplifiers with speakers.

Conference Room 2-regular size systems with bookshelf or slightly larger speakers.

As stated before you do not have to bring a complete system, we will mix and match what you have.
 
I have this very large Infinity HCA amp that is up for grabs. I don't know much about it; I got it at a garage sale and apparently the father had been working on restoring it before he passed. I realistically will not get to this in the next 10 years and would like someone to try and use it. Was about to cannibalize it but its pretty cool. Weighs 112lbs so I'm not hauling it to Burning Amp unless someone is down. LMK
https://www.stereophile.com/content/infinity-hca-power-amplifier
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Those are fans, not speakers, eh?
 
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Hopefully, someone who knows the arrangements with the Community Center will chime in with Friday details. For now, note that the official BAF '24 schedule lists Friday 6-8pm as "Setup for amp camp and speaker camp". At least those 2 rooms should be available by 6 or so.
 
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I will be there today. Community Center staff will be setting up tables, etc. I am dropping off Camp stuff and Tom may be dropping off some stuff. Not much else is going on. The real fun starts tomorrow morning 🙂

Edit: just heard that more stuff is coming down today. If you are around and want to get some exercise, come on down.
 
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Related, less people in the Airport are interested in loudspeaker design than you might think.
I think you mean "fewer people" or maybe you mean "lesser people" haha! I would not be surprised, I've been boring customers all week when asked to explain why I would be closed Saturday this week. Am I rotten for continuing to extol the virtues of diyAudio long after their eyes glaze over?
 
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Looking forward to BA 2024! Been a while since I've made it to one. Planning to bring along: Turntable, Pearl2, Pearl3, PassDiy line stage, and a small upgraded vacuum tube power amp. Also will grab a box full of cables.

I doubt if there's much in the way of usable furniture for setting up systems... Anyone planning on bringing some kind of audio rack furniture??