The Great Plains Audio festival in Tulsa Oklahoma is scheduled to start in about a week.

Is there any additional news about exhibitors and siminars that are not listed on the Great Plains website?

I am looking forward to this event, and hope to see all of you there.

Norris Wilson

• Dallas Audio Club DIY Room Equipment

I'm bring a set of line arrays (see photo on the second photo page on the GPAF site) and perhaps a set of bipolar MLTL speakers if I have room. I will give a seminar on line arrays Saturday afternoon to those interested.

Fred, if someone from any of the Dallas, Houston, or Tulsa audio clubs has a few minutes on Friday afternoon to help me set-up my room, I would be grateful. Perhaps we could have a little fun doing a room correction with my DEQX system.

Thanks,

Jim

For those who have not exhibited at the GPAF before, when you check in ask the receptionist to send the service crew to remove the TV, table, and chairs from the front room of the suite. Last year they responded immediately, so by the time I hauled the first load of equipment to the room it was ready for set up.

The suites are so much better than the typical hotel room at other shows, where you have to remove the bed, etc. Like most hotel rooms, it is a bit small, and last year mine had a strong midbass peak which was partially fixed by pulling the sofa out a couple of feet from the wall. Jim's DEQX will be very helpful in taming this anomaly in his suite.

Thanks for the reply. I'll arrive just after lunch on Friday. Sounds like help will be available. See you there.

Jim

Skip Pack

Lori and I are looking forward to seeing you and your wife at the Tulsa show!

We will be driving in from Preston, Idaho - celebrated home of Napoleon Dynamite. We're planning to show some new speakers that I recently designed, which probably isn't very exciting to anyone else but it's an incredible ego trip for yours truly. Unfortunatlely we've run into a few last-minute snags on delivery of the speaker enclosures, which were supposed to be finished two weeks ago, and then one week ago, and then last Friday... If I'd have known I'd be sitting here five days before the show with no cabinets I'd have built my own or at least found another woodworker (my own woodworking skills can charitably be described as proto-rudimentary). Tomorrow I'll be at my woodworker's place offering my assistance (and insistance), as now it's down to "do or die". Even once the cabinets are built I'll still have a couple of days' worth of work to do on them, not the least of which is the ritualistic application of legless reptile lubricant.

I don't have any images to post because at this point the speakers are still just a gleam in my eye. They'll be floorstanders roughly 42" tall by 13" wide by 16" deep. Driver complement will include some fun stuff from TAD and B&C. Estimated efficiency is in the lower 90's, the bass should extend just south of 40 Hz, and the drivers used exhibit negligible power compression below about 112 dB. I've gone to some trouble to do a good job with the reverberant field, as getting the reverberant field right is my favorite audio-related tangent. These won't compete with large-format high efficiency high output systems from PiSpeakers, GedLee, Iconic, Edgarhorn, Classic Audio Reproductions, Avantgarde, and the like. Not even my well-paid, highly optimistic advertising department could make that happen. Instead, my hope is to offer some of the qualities of a good large-format high efficiency system in a medium sized, upper-medium efficiency package.

Hopefully in a couple of days I can post an update saying that there's no more last-minute drama going on here.

Duke

PS - And of course back by popular demand will be Lori's cool misty colored fountains.