Pictures & Report: '06 Vancouver Island diyFEST

[planet10]

Talk about buried in kit... Chris doing something (hooking up the Cole), "helped" by Jeff & Kim.

 

[TerryO]

Re: Looks like I missed a good one

~~~snip~~~~

I though to myself, "today is a good day to drink some beer and listen to some odd looking speakers". And it looks like I was right. I hope to get another shot at it next year.

(TerryO: It was, you were and you should!)

Looks like it was a blast.

(TerryO: It far, far better than that !)

BTW: I look much younger than many of you.

(TerryO: Yeah, I have the same problem, but they never made a big issue of it.)

 

[planet10]

Here we have a view of the BottleHead 300B amps behind the Silver Iris. Buschhorn IIs with FE108eS at the bottom left (they went unplayed, but did go home with a pair of modded FE126), a Jon Risch power "cleanser" (built by Bent?), and over by the green milk-crate the installation of the neofones under way.

dave

 

[planet10]

While we have Terry here... i stole one of his little 2-ways and ran an impedance curve... really quite a thing of beauty -- even more so given that it has an XO in it...

 

[planet10]

And here the Silver Iris with no crowd in the way... Frank is a good 6 feet -- gives you an idea of the size... these actually overwhelm my listening room a bit (~1000 ft^2, with sloped ceilings averaging 12')... outside they were a treat -- big and ballsy and room filling (althou in the back of your head you always want a bit more mid -- a particular problem if you are big into female vocals -- now if someone will just let me at their SIs)

 

[Geek]

"His Masters Voice"

For a lawyer, he has good taste in music

 

[jleaman]

Here we have a view of the BottleHead 300B amps behind the Silver Iris. Buschhorn IIs with FE108eS at the bottom left (they went unplayed, but did go home with a pair of modded FE126), a Jon Risch power "cleanser" (built by Bent?), and over by the green milk-crate the installation of the neofones under way.

dave

I like the looks of these tube amp's Wonder if i could create something similar with what i have.

 

[Geek]

Chris' amp we used out back most of the time. A fine sounding little PP trioded EL84.

An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.

 

[planet10]

Some other speakers came but didn't dance... here a couple pairs of BD-Pipes & a set of modified Busschhorn 1s.

 

[Geek]

Ah, sorry for the last one. I forgot vB doesn't "scrollbar" big images

Terry assembles the only two-way at the fest.

 

[planet10]

"His Masters Voice"

For a lawyer, he has good taste in music

The lawyer liked the speakers so much, he went with them...

dave

 

[planet10]

[Terry assembles the only two-way at the fest.

Don't forget the Silver Iris (they did have a lot of people thinking it was a 15" FR)

dave

 

[planet10]

Back on topic... FE167e in the factory-size BR but with different tuning...

 

[planet10]

The Linn LP12 used as source in the inside room...

 

[planet10]

The accompanying PEARL phono section...

 

[planet10]

The Toob-i-fied Technics (and my $9 Aurex pre-amp & a budget Denon CD Player)

 

[planet10]

tea & chips

 

[Geek]

AHHHHHH! You posted that retarded pic of me!

Don't forget the Silver Iris (they did have a lot of people thinking it was a 15" FR)

Uhhh.... they weren't?

Here's some of the incredible detail that went into the speakers....

 

[planet10]

Bob's Rega 3

 

[planet10]

Uhhh.... they weren't?

http://www.hawthorneaudio.com/drivers.htm