To get an ideal what room to place you, please post what you will be demonstrating at Burning Amp. On Saturday, I will be showing a vintage system consisting of a Quad 303 amplifier powering a pair of EPI 100 speakers. Sunday will be a Bottlehead SEX 2.0 amplifier, Bottlehead 6V6 Moreplay preamp and a pair of ADS L470/2 speakers. I will also have my semi famous chocolate chip cookies to share.
@gregulator and I will be demoing an open baffle system powered by a Modulus-86 10th Anniversary Edition amplifier.
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Going small and easy this year. ACA MinMax and Fostex fe103sol P1000e speakers. Also bringing an Audioengine B1 as a Bluetooth source so anyone can connect with their phone.
Not currently planning to bring the 15” Vortex coaxials or other stuff that I’ve shown before. MinMax does very well with just about any speaker and I would enjoy trying it with as many as possible.
Not currently planning to bring the 15” Vortex coaxials or other stuff that I’ve shown before. MinMax does very well with just about any speaker and I would enjoy trying it with as many as possible.
Maybe I'll bring my 8" B&C coaxials, but that means I'll need to bring a pair of subwoofers too. I'm envisioning a very packed car; But it's a hatchback, there is always room.
I'll be bringing an evolved and elaborated version of the stereo source into 3 speakers exploration I brought last year. It's an all DIY system with the exception of the Raspberry Pi4 and the Schiit Syn. Last year I was set up in the long room by the auditorium (on the sidewall) it worked fairly well for everyone there. That is not in our available space for this year, but we have so much space this time. I do plan to set it up on Saturday and tear it down Sunday afternoon.
Beer... and maybe the ACA MinMax although I see someone is already bringing one.
The finish is drying on the pair as we speak. These are small compact open baffles but they have a big sound, especially with @tomchr ’s amp! Made from solid purpleheart wood (like last year’s).
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I find it works very well effectively applying newer technology to what is an old method. I actually built a Dynaquadaptor kit unit back in 1970 and played with that and other implementations of the simple stereo matrixing multichannel derivations into the '90s. When things were right it worked very well, but any number of source or setup issues provided strange results. It was not a method that made most all of your music enjoyable. The SYN, to me, actually expands the percentage of music I find enjoyable. I have always felt that stereo 'imaging' is an artifact of using only two sound producing locations to create a sound field. Fortunately it's an enjoyable artifact, and I enjoy it. However, I have never heard live music that makes you think that that player or singer is in a very precisely located point. Close your eyes at a performance and see if you can locate sources that precisely. The SYN synthesizing the center channel does a better job of presenting two channel inputs in a more plausible sound field.
I started this effort about two years ago, initially hoping to implement Gerzon's trinaural center channel method, and I may well try to do that in the coming years. Jason Stoddard designed, produced the SYN which he described in terms that echoed thought I had 25 years ago: "I wish some capable designer would implement the concepts in Dynaquad using active circuity with multiple levels of buffering!" I had to try it out. Obviously I was pre-sold, so I'm not sternly objective here. I hope you get it here a SYN in a good system.
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I started this effort about two years ago, initially hoping to implement Gerzon's trinaural center channel method, and I may well try to do that in the coming years. Jason Stoddard designed, produced the SYN which he described in terms that echoed thought I had 25 years ago: "I wish some capable designer would implement the concepts in Dynaquad using active circuity with multiple levels of buffering!" I had to try it out. Obviously I was pre-sold, so I'm not sternly objective here. I hope you get it here a SYN in a good system.
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Aaahh.. I lost your email....
I ended up buying a Schitt Syn and played around with the Raspberry four, I got a bunch of Parasound Z amps and got another pair of little Elacs... idea was (is) to set up a four channel surround.
I also got a kit of the little Mark Audio speakers so I could go 5.0 or even 6.0.
I figured I could also use a Dell micro form factor as well...
But life get in the way... or more like it, amps and more amps and more amps and preamps... went back to work... so the home office didn't change...
See you soon.
I’m still undecided whether to bring the big speakers from last year or just the preamp and amp. Depends on how much room there is in the car/truck.
And remember folks, Saturday evening is the reception with time to hangout and listen. Should be fun!
And remember folks, Saturday evening is the reception with time to hangout and listen. Should be fun!
I'm in Davis and just picked up some beer (Tom, it's your favorite) and wine. So, I'm bringing that for sure 🙂
Tom, Greg, Cary, Skip, so excited to hear your rigs! Let's bring the house down, yah?
Tom, Greg, Cary, Skip, so excited to hear your rigs! Let's bring the house down, yah?