Wolf
10-10-2005, 01:36 AM
It was a great day + 0.5. Many speakers represented some fine examples of well thought-out implementation. Friday night had some good merit, with some setup qualifications, and seeing what worked better in-room. We still had that "room-boom" from years' past. That night I heard Jim's 5th(?) pair of completed line-arrays, and am still blown away with accuracy (though to rosey for my blood). This being my first encounter with the DEQX was pleasant, if just to see it's potential, and accurate price tag.
On to Saturday (after about 4.5hrs of unfulfilling slumber), we started out with a few sets, and noticed the polarity of one channel was flipped. We later recalled these for another demonstration. We barely finished hearing them all before supper due to many projects displayed.
Of note- Paul K's Trilangle II's had great sound. Compared to last year's rendition, they were more forward, but more detailed for layers of music, and cleaner overall. Bass was still tight and clean. ChrisM's stuff had some merit, with some quasi-arrays sounding good, and Cryolites were one of the better pairs there. Shawn's HT1's sounded nice and airy, and clean bass. He's right thugh- "small" setting would be better for these. His RS150/RS28 has made some improvements along the way, and sounds the best they have yet. Darren's center/sub combo was amazing to say the least, intrigued by 6 TB 3", and tweet in a 2.5.5 design. Drake was the sub, nuff sedd. Dr K's just ROCKED! They are definitely in the rock-class to me. Of the smaller designs(of course I'm slightly biased), most seemed to be surprised by my (truly unmodified TB) W3-517S1 dual-reflex FR's. Some were shocked. My Bitties gave good slam, and Auras did okay too. I like Dylan's B3S speakers quite a bit too. Darren's active arrays were only bumped out of the "biggest-speaker" spot by dlsbobby's Omega Pro18 40Hz horn-sub. MAN, THAT WAS FUN!!! On the electronics end, my amp was a simple fix after Aaron determined the cause. Matt's amps were the cake-bakers, I mean -takers, and an experience to say the least.
Prizes were mostly Hi-Vi 5" pairs, Premium Dayton Binding Posts, and a ser#1 TB W8-1363SA subwoofer was my lucky withdrawal. It's not even for sale as yet. I'll report my findings soon.
La Pinata-
Christian had a B-day, and Bill Horn instigated the embarassment sombrero with a good laugh. Shawn had a MONSTER BURRITO and a few laughs belted. I smell blackmail! A solid good time.
Moon cheese-
Noid, that parts for you. =-)
What a day!
Wolf
On to Saturday (after about 4.5hrs of unfulfilling slumber), we started out with a few sets, and noticed the polarity of one channel was flipped. We later recalled these for another demonstration. We barely finished hearing them all before supper due to many projects displayed.
Of note- Paul K's Trilangle II's had great sound. Compared to last year's rendition, they were more forward, but more detailed for layers of music, and cleaner overall. Bass was still tight and clean. ChrisM's stuff had some merit, with some quasi-arrays sounding good, and Cryolites were one of the better pairs there. Shawn's HT1's sounded nice and airy, and clean bass. He's right thugh- "small" setting would be better for these. His RS150/RS28 has made some improvements along the way, and sounds the best they have yet. Darren's center/sub combo was amazing to say the least, intrigued by 6 TB 3", and tweet in a 2.5.5 design. Drake was the sub, nuff sedd. Dr K's just ROCKED! They are definitely in the rock-class to me. Of the smaller designs(of course I'm slightly biased), most seemed to be surprised by my (truly unmodified TB) W3-517S1 dual-reflex FR's. Some were shocked. My Bitties gave good slam, and Auras did okay too. I like Dylan's B3S speakers quite a bit too. Darren's active arrays were only bumped out of the "biggest-speaker" spot by dlsbobby's Omega Pro18 40Hz horn-sub. MAN, THAT WAS FUN!!! On the electronics end, my amp was a simple fix after Aaron determined the cause. Matt's amps were the cake-bakers, I mean -takers, and an experience to say the least.
Prizes were mostly Hi-Vi 5" pairs, Premium Dayton Binding Posts, and a ser#1 TB W8-1363SA subwoofer was my lucky withdrawal. It's not even for sale as yet. I'll report my findings soon.
La Pinata-
Christian had a B-day, and Bill Horn instigated the embarassment sombrero with a good laugh. Shawn had a MONSTER BURRITO and a few laughs belted. I smell blackmail! A solid good time.
Moon cheese-
Noid, that parts for you. =-)
What a day!
Wolf