I had rather a busy day yesterday, so just catching up.
What a great event.. the systems on show where all quite some thing .. thanks for all the work involved bringing them..
1st up was daves set up with nicks lowthers, very nice... I remember a few years ago comparing my lowthers to my present speakers and bring surprised how close they were
Nicks speakers confirmed that.
Gordon was up next with his open baffle linkwitz jobs. It took a bit to get the bass something like, I particularly liked what the midrange drivers did.. rather lowther like at midrange frequencies
My set up was on next with my take on the mofo, it worked well
Steve's 45 amp next, on ants 15" drivers, that lovely sweet 45 sound. Ants loudspeakers give a darker sound than Steve's 12"s. I like what they both do..
I missed ants issues getting his amps going, but was back in the room for Phil open baffles.
The coral music sounded really great to me, very sweet, and his skyscraper take on the mofo sounded a very nice combination. Bass was not earth shattering, but it was fast bass which I like..
We then moved on to Steve's diy amt drivers in his diy horns. To me the male vocals he played sound excellent .. no exceptional, it was a temporary rig for the bass, so allowance made for that.. but what a result.. impressive.
We then heard Chris's b&c compression drivers in those tall slim cabs. A nice sweet mids and the small horns seemed tolerant of frequencies. The amps in my view where not as airy as some, but nevertheless a good result.
Gordon's omni drain pipes where the next thing I remember the mid driver really moved, very different qualities to conventional loudspeakers but a full sound, especially considering the size.. (if you ignore the bass boxes)
After that we heard Tony's diy cd/dac/amplifier on my speakers. Very impressive, different take to the se amps that my speakers are usually paired with. But still very good
We then moved nick lowther baffles down and gave them a good session on my mofo and my 1 watt valve amp.
By then it was getting late in the day so I packed up.
I've missed loads out.. so appologies
But it was a great day and great to catch up with you all, who I now regard as good friends..
I've some pics I was going to post but the ones already posted are better than mine.. but here's the group
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The tube manual is quite like a telephone book. The number of it perfect. It is useful to make it possible to speak with a girl. But we can't see her beautiful face from the telephone number