Well folks, as always you were a fantastic group. It's an honor to host you.
To the chef of the gnocci lasagna: as I promised my wife inhaled the remainder, it didn't make it through Sunday. Thanks to Juan and family for the sandwiches (two left on Sunday, I ate 'em for breakfast
) and all of you for contributions to the buffet table.
Thanks to Don for the seminar and to continued efforts.
To Steve and Tony of the BAS, it was great to see you both again, and I'm pleased you saw fit to bring others from the group. Hope to see you all back.
And thanks for the pizza!
New folks keep coming at every fest, and I consider that the best compliment possible to the way we do things.
A couple of housekeeping notes:
Thanks to all for keeping things neat, Sunday morning clean-up was a snap.
We did get a complaint from the consignment gallery across the street about parking, but the complaint was a frivolous one by someone habituated to petulant outbursts.
Nonetheless, I might recommend alternate overflow parking for the next fest (I'm currently disinclined).
Could the Altec guy's contact me? I apologize for not remembering your names but I'm constitutionally incapable of remembering names unless I see them in print (or repeat them 20 times in conversation). I did open up the backs of the A7's and they are 416-8b's. I'll get those Fostecs moved back where they belong, but that introduces a question I'd like to discuss with you both. In A7 illustrations I see no baffle around the horns, and it seems to me it would be useful to make both the horn and tweeter steerable to a common long distance focus. I would appreciate your thoughts.
Thanks to all for the kind words re: gramphood. Little buggers funny looking (and he squeaks) but I guess he'll grow on me.
See you all in February
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