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Can this be a thing? Can we all buy Kenny a beer? How many beers can Kenny handle!
Can this be a thing? Can we all buy Kenny a beer? How many beers can Kenny handle!
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Audio: Media PC -> Sabre ESS 9023 DAC -> Behringer EP2500 -> (insert speakers of the moment)
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What I can't drink, I'll keep in the bottle and sell it back to the bar. ;)Originally posted by JasonP View PostKenny
http://www.diy-ny.com/
DIY NY/NJ 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGwA...ature=youtu.be
Man does not live by measurements alone, a little music helps.Comment
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Re: DakotaDIY 2015
How is the prep looking for:
1) Bookshelf speakers. Will we have some stands present? I need them for the both the speakers I plan on bringing. 24" or so maybe?
2) Portable players. I have a rather nice (IMO) FiiO X1 with a 3.5mm line-out I'd like to bring music on. Will that be supported?
Getting more pumped as we draw nearer!Audio: Media PC -> Sabre ESS 9023 DAC -> Behringer EP2500 -> (insert speakers of the moment)
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So you're saying we should all buy you drink chips instead so you have to come back next year to use them?;)Originally posted by kenny_k View PostFailure is not an option. It comes bundled with Windows.
We are passionate about great sound at whatever level we can afford, so don't let the audio atheists reduce the experience to a set of numbers and squiggly lines. - jbrunerComment
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More like a wheelchair and taxi. ;)Kenny
http://www.diy-ny.com/
DIY NY/NJ 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGwA...ature=youtu.be
Man does not live by measurements alone, a little music helps.Comment
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MP3 of house music...
01. XZibit - Paparazzi (instrumental)
02. Larry Coryell & Badi Assad & John Abercrombie - Seu Jorge E Dona Ica
03. Nick Lowe - The Beast in Me
04. Joshua Bell - Faure - Apres Un Reve
05. Sia - Breath Me
06. Steve Earle - Maria
07. Dead Can Dance - Nierika
08. The Corrs - Brid Og Ni Mhaille
09. Third Eye Blind - Slow MotionDon't listen to me - I have not sold any $150,000 speakers.Comment
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1 and 4Don't listen to me - I have not sold any $150,000 speakers.Comment
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Nevermind, sorry didn't read it well enough. MarkOriginally posted by johnnyrichards View PostComment
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Don't listen to me - I have not sold any $150,000 speakers.Comment
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The SHOW INFO page is updated with an embedded link to the DEMO and the track listing.
EDIT: the link is to the MP3 version (not the version we will use at the show).Bryan K.
Midwest Audio Club
Speedster | Sub Attaché | The Wildeman | Sean's NLA Towers | COÜGAR, COUGAR II and COÜGAR JR | Triton | Lithium | J-Boom | Trym MLTL | Docere MLTLComment
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As a reminder, email subscribers received a download link to an uncompressed copy of the house track. We are hoping this gives everyone time to familiarize themselves with it, and to burn their own disks. Again, I highly recommend giving it several listens through some good headphones prior to playing it back through your personal speakers - in fact, when it comes to selecting demo music a seemingly obvious but possibly often ignored rule is to not use speakers that you have designed.
Another reminder - our house tracks are generally constructed for testing listening skills as much as determining capabilities of a speaker. Keep this in mind as you listen to these various cuts, and see if you can pick out the passages that are included as a listening test vs. those included as a showcase for the speakers.
In general, the tracks selected this year are intended to:
1. Challenge little woofers.
2. Challenge what the designers consider ideal placement with respect to the listener. Historically, we have limited that flexibility to degree of toe-in - this year, we will also leave width and depth of listening field up to the demonstrator. These three factors play very heavily into impressions of imaging.
3. Of course, the usual suspects including how well the speakers handle fricatives and plosives. While Sssssss seems to receive the majority of our attention when we analyze speakers, but "ch" and "p" as in "church" and "pork chop" can also be grating - and are much harder to tame with a different crossover point or padding resistor.
See you all soon!
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Oooooo....I see what you did there in that picture!!! Nice. Can't wait.
Bryan K.
Midwest Audio Club
Speedster | Sub Attaché | The Wildeman | Sean's NLA Towers | COÜGAR, COUGAR II and COÜGAR JR | Triton | Lithium | J-Boom | Trym MLTL | Docere MLTLComment
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<Never mind - I found it in my deleted e-mails folder>
Fat finger here accidently deleted my update with the music link - could you resend it (ernperkins at msn dot com)?
Thanks!The elephant in the room is the roomComment
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Added a couple items to the swap meet:
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