Great news about the Paramours Wayne! The tube stuff is fun. I think that I'm in room 505 but cant remember for sure. For speakers I will be bringing what I'm calling the Arezzo. It is just a simple two way consisting of a 12" woofer and 12" wood horn. There wont be any ground pounding, worm killing bass coming from my room. Just some good music. I will have my 100 watt push pull tube monoblocks for a power. Bassie pream, Denon preamp, NAD CD player with ART DI/O Tubed DAC and a Sony SACD.

Also to play around with. I'll have some other wood horns. The big 21" horns with 2" drivers and some 12's and 17's. Maybe we can triamp Wayne's 7 pi's with a pair of 2" drivers and a pair of 1" drivers.

See you all there!

Bill

If you put the C4S in right away, there's been a lot of them recently that have needed a 680-750 ohm resistor instead of one of the parallel 499-ohm resistors supplied, due to some fluctuations in the led's. If your B6 voltage is way high and B8 voltage is around 2.4 instead of 2.0, you may be a candidate to swap out this resistor. Lots on Bottlehead BBS about this, too.

I'll be directly below you in Suite 404 with a serious heap of Audio Note gear - CD players, transports DACs, preamps, power amps, turntables, arms, cartridges, speakers, cables, etc . . . 2 complete systems up and running, and a bunch of "spare" goodies.

I'll also have my Bottlehead Foreplay, "WannaGlows" and a Sony 9000ES DVD/SACD/CD/Mouse player along for fun. We can A/B your stockers against 'em. (Some very nice Mikey LevFevre iron in this pair!)

I'll be bringing 3 (or more) turntables, I've decided, 2 of which will be available to "float", I think. Mucho vinyl, of course.

I'll also have the oft-rumored TAD/JBL/TAD & Martinelli (Gor blimey, those horns are a beautiful sight!) beasts, still fussing with crossover choices, I'm sure.

I'm really psyched for Lima, (except for the 24 hrs of driving!), can't wait to meet you guys and do some listening!
Keep your ears and your mind open.

ya better drink alota coffee!

Can't wait myself :)

enjoy the music!

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I was really impressed both with the quality and the quantity of sound. There is a bit of hum, but the hum reduction pots bring it down quite a bit. Gives it sort of a retro-50's sound, when most equipment was powered with a diode and cap. And really, it doesn't hum that much now and I suspect that the regulator board will reduce it further.

I was most interested in the bass response, because my speakers use 2226 woofers. I know that with some flea-power amps, the 2226 is a bit hard to drive. But I'm going to have to side with you and Ron that there was nothing lacking in the bottom octave in this combination. The bass was all there, all the way down, and very powerful.

Nothin' compared to what I'll have to do for VSAC, I'm afraid. D-oh!
Keep your ears and your mind open.

You're still planning on connecting some of your source equipment in my rooms, aren't you? I'm counting on you because I'm only bringing some rather generic CD players. I'll bring some vinyl and some CD's too, but I'd still like to use your turntables and transports to play 'em on.

I'm really looking forward to this trip!

I'm really looking forward to it.

See you there!