Thanks to everybody I got to talk with, live humans who speak the vintage variant of the audio dialect. And who risked transporting and potentially damaging their valuable collections to give us all a glimmer of what's possible.
Especially if you built it, fixed it, or restored it yourself!
Couldn't bring the Khorn replicas this time (posted tons of pics already though). For room-filling output SLF's Valencias comported themselves admirably... Koseltri's AR-9's were unstoppable too but I would like to have heard them with the mids turned on just once...but if that isn't a perfect match of a speaker with an AK'er then what is...
In that very 'live' large reflective tile-floor room it takes time to place well and effect imaging/soundstage in farfield with the more boutique-ish sets I brought this time. Oh well. So I cranked it a bit instead and you endured the random vinyl thrown at you. Had a scare when I accidentally brushed against the new Pre's solenoid selector switches and the sound *ahem* vanished (everything's fine, just pilot error.). The Magnat-built DQM-9c's did the woofer skiddly-doo-dance even with the 20Hz rumble filter on (TT acoustic feedback?)
Everybody helped out; plenty of Karma flying about. :thmbsp:
Some but definitely not
all: anxiety-stricken til BuckyB found a computer-type AC cord for the Parasound Pre. To the gentleman I barked at for using one of the speakers as a writing-desk
please accept my apology for being tired and cranky. :worried:
That particular speaker is more solid than my
actual desk...
Sir.B loaned a CD player and SLF Pony-Expressed the DQM's...which produced the unintended but foreseeable consequence of no room left in the already Suburban-sized load squeezed into a passenger car. But this is AK: several people offered to run them down my way. Thanks Veggieguys for stepping up.
To our host venue and The Man Himself for putting it together, thanks.