Planetarium

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so Justin talked us into doing this again... he did not have to twist our arms too hard.. it is a truly wonderful and special thing... a few people told me it was one of the best experiences of their lives - and one said THE best day of their life... seriously!

 

 

bring everything you need to get comfy... lie down... eye mask on... lights off... and set off on a journey.. see where and when it takes you... you truly never know... 

 

beginning of setup

 

nearly there

serious and deep gratitude to the performers and attendees... Aurora Hilal and Rena and Arji and Laraaji.. and Justin!  "it takes a village".. oh, and Joey Llanos for being the muscle during load in... when he was at Paradise Garage, at least the system did not have to be moved for each event! 

 

the system was all silver EM/IA... sounded insane... a big room can just be magic sometimes... giant and effortless... and even with Aurora's bass bombs hitting over 105dB at the back of the room, we used the globe 50 tubes.. two watts per channel... yep.. two watts.....

 

Gaia front

note slots where the six 18" subs exit at floor 

 

 

rear

 

close up of components

 

we even snuck in The Manipulator (EQ)

 

and two Garrard 301's in our plinths with Schick arms and Dave tampered Denon cartridges

 

if you have two turntables, then you obviously need two silver moving coil transformers and two silver RIAA Correctors

 

 

you know, we wanted to use the original 300B's that we have, but the globe 50 just sounded better

 

so... two watts per channel.. spend money on speaker power... overkill is your friend with speakers.. but amplifiers?  the laws of physics say that it is just easier and cheaper to make a high quality low powered amplifier when compared to a high powered amplifier.. to me, this makes sense - a loudspeaker only passes along what it is being fed.. so feed it nickel and triodes!  and make crazy efficient speakers that allow for beautiful small amplifiers... 

 

and then the deep listening session was over... Larraji and Arji sent us on our way on Sunday morning.. they are wonderful.. I just smile knowing that they are out there in the world, laughing all the way... 

peace,

me
 

 

 

Denuding a 103….Texas Style

 in dallas for the southwest audiofest and had to do some work on a 103 with the tools at hand.

anyone ever seen one of these?

This looks like a 71A in a 50 bottle from the front and becomes a completely different beast when you move to the side.