What did you do this weekend

**Alrainbow** · September 18, 2019, 08:47 AM

https://www.audionirvana.org/forum/t...d-technologies

A must read thread
Enjoy.

**Kingrex** · September 30, 2019, 11:54 PM

I went fishing.

**Edward** · October 1, 2019, 01:53 PM

college football game

**Randy Myers** · October 1, 2019, 02:34 PM

Played Catan with wife and Grand Daughter Saturday evening and hosted Central Coast Audio Club meeting on Sunday.

**still-one** · October 1, 2019, 03:39 PM

Originally Posted by Edward

college football game

Yep, me too on Saturday. On Friday we went to dinner then a concert of Les Mis songs. Another this football game this coming weekend then later that evening Sara Bareilles in concert.

**Mikado463** · October 1, 2019, 05:23 PM

car show Sat, shot sporting clays Sun

**Kingrex** · October 1, 2019, 06:40 PM

Originally Posted by Mikado463

car show Sat, shot sporting clays Sun

Real birds start soon. I need to hit some clay myself.

**Projectman** · October 1, 2019, 06:46 PM

Spent the weekend in Nashville! Beer, live music, and good friends...priceless

**Kingrex** · October 1, 2019, 08:27 PM

Originally Posted by Projectman

Spent the weekend in Nashville! Beer, live music, and good friends...priceless

I vote you win.

**CPP** · October 1, 2019, 08:46 PM

College football game Sat, golf Sunday

**AJ Soundfield** · October 1, 2019, 09:09 PM

College football Sat, started restoring some vintage Quad/Gradient subs Sun.

**Mordante** · October 7, 2019, 06:26 AM

Friday evening, work as a volunteer at a concert. Avast and Soul Grip were playing. Avast was nice, Soul Grip meh
Saturday played WoW Classic went to a 30th anniversary concert of the Gathering. Was really nice.
Sunday indoor bouldering

Groceries shopping, laundry, cleaning etc etc.

**W9TR** · October 7, 2019, 12:13 PM

Hung out with friends. We have been evacuated from our home because the Decker Fire is burning a mile and a half from our Colorado home.

**MikeCh** · October 7, 2019, 12:56 PM

Originally Posted by W9TR

Hung out with friends. We have been evacuated from our home because the Decker Fire is burning a mile and a half from our Colorado home.

Scary. Hope crews can keep it contained. Best wishes for you and yours, Tom.

**bluegrassphile** · October 7, 2019, 03:36 PM

Tried an amp or two.

**W9TR** · October 7, 2019, 04:35 PM

So far so good Mike. Snow is in the forecast for Thursday, which is a good thing. 6390 acres and rising, 730 personnel, 3 heavy lift choppers and 2 DC-10’s are keeping things away from our house. Fingers crossed.

**Mechnutt** · October 7, 2019, 07:55 PM

Watched my Oklahoma State Cowboys get beat by Texas Tech and tried to resolve a high frequency ground loop for my son that he has with his just purchased PS Audio M700 monoblocks. I found the issue but he will need to use a galvanic isolation usb device like an Intona or ifi iGalavanic 3.0 or cheater plugs with the amps. Either one will fix the issue.

Then played with my new Deerhound all weekend.

**MikeCh** · October 7, 2019, 08:55 PM

Originally Posted by W9TR

So far so good Mike. Snow is in the forecast for Thursday, which is a good thing. 6390 acres and rising, 730 personnel, 3 heavy lift choppers and 2 DC-10’s are keeping things away from our house. Fingers crossed.

Those Crews can do some amazing work

**UltraFast69** · October 7, 2019, 10:20 PM

Pulled a transformer and Control4 dimmer switch for cabinet lighting that was connected to one of my audio circuits in the dedicated sub panel and relocated it on the other side of the wall in my workout room where it now feeds into the main panel.

All that I have done for power and grounding, I knew this problem still lingered then finally a few weeks ago I figured out a way to run and hide the cable and get it the “F” out of there. Something that took 30 minutes was left undone for a couple of years because it took me that long to figure out how to move it.

Anyone not aware, Control4 is a full home automation system I put in years ago. In my music room there are three light switches, main ceiling and two for cabinet lights. The switches are smart and the main switch controls all Iights as a theme or I can change the lights from my phone, iPad or computer.

How things opened up even more, I have no idea other than the importance of good clean power. Just shows you can never be done in this endless hobby.

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**W9TR** · October 8, 2019, 07:42 AM

Ed - glad to see you are picking off your power issues and seeing positive results. This is the very best free tweak I can think of.

**UltraFast69** · October 8, 2019, 09:01 AM

Originally Posted by W9TR

Ed - glad to see you are picking off your power issues and seeing positive results. This is the very best free tweak I can think of.

Hey Tom,

Thanks and that should wrap things up in that department.

We missed you at RMAF this year.

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**Ritmo** · October 8, 2019, 01:45 PM

Watched some football, listen to music and recovering from surgery.

**Dizzie** · October 8, 2019, 02:38 PM

Dug a monster hole through clay to plant a 15-gallon Hachiya persimmon tree. Hit hardpan at about 3.5'. A heavy spud bar just bounced off of it. Same for an electric jackhammer. Whipped my butt good and trashed my right shoulder. I hurt in places I did not know I had.

Just for fun I also planted 5 1-gallon plants and added a couple of miles to my season total of 104 miles.

Today I donate blood. I wanted to hold off until the weather changes and I stop swimming because donating tires me out more than it used to. But they called twice begging for a pediatric donation. Tugged my heartstrings so in I go.

**hifinutt** · October 9, 2019, 02:06 PM

well done dizzie , somebody will benefit from that

**Projectman** · October 9, 2019, 02:15 PM

This coming weekend!

**Dizzie** · October 9, 2019, 02:15 PM

Originally Posted by hifinutt

well done dizzie , somebody will benefit from that

Thanks, I am up to 85 pints in CA. Got the polo shirt to prove it.

Not sure how many donations I made when I lived in OH.

**Knightrider7007** · October 13, 2019, 06:00 AM

Built lego with my 11 year old son.

**UltraFast69** · October 13, 2019, 07:00 AM

Originally Posted by Projectman

This coming weekend!

Looks like a jammed pack weekend, is this in GA?

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**CPP** · October 13, 2019, 08:19 PM

Originally Posted by UltraFast69

Looks like a jammed pack weekend, is this in GA?

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Live Oak Fla

**jdandy** · October 14, 2019, 09:55 AM

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**bluegrassphile** · October 15, 2019, 12:51 PM

October 5th I spent the day auditioning 7 different amps at Suncoast Audio. Had the time of my life. Both Mikes were wonderful. Mike B. even took me out and fed me a wonderful lunch. It took me the entire day to decide on an amp because they ALL sounded sublime. What a high?!! Out of a Simaudio 340xi, Naim Supernait 3, VAC 170i, Luxman 509x, Pass int 60, Hegel H390, and Gryphon Diablo 300, I picked the D300. The Pass int 60 was a very close second. I was surprised at how great it sounded. Same with the NAIM Supernait 3 and Hegel H390. Oh yeah, and the VAC 170i and Luxman 509x...see what I mean? They all just sounded soooooo good. But, man, was it fun?! Wonderful experience. Thanks so much Mike.

**Kingrex** · October 15, 2019, 05:39 PM

Originally Posted by bluegrassphile

October 5th I spent the day auditioning 7 different amps at Suncoast Audio. Had the time of my life. Both Mikes were wonderful. Mike B. even took me out and fed me a wonderful lunch. It took me the entire day to decide on an amp because they ALL sounded sublime. What a high?!! Out of a Simaudio 340xi, Naim Supernait 3, VAC 170i, Luxman 509x, Pass int 60, Hegel H390, and Gryphon Diablo 300, I picked the D300. The Pass int 60 was a very close second. I was surprised at how great it sounded. Same with the NAIM Supernait 3 and Hegel H390. Oh yeah, and the VAC 170i and Luxman 509x...see what I mean? They all just sounded soooooo good. But, man, was it fun?! Wonderful experience. Thanks so much Mike.

What music do you listen too most. What speakers are you pairing the amp with? Thanks

**bluegrassphile** · October 15, 2019, 08:15 PM

Originally Posted by Kingrex

What music do you listen too most. What speakers are you pairing the amp with? Thanks

Bluegrass mostly, then small combo jazz. My speakers are Harbeth Super HL 5+ 40th Anniversary Models. Outstanding synergy between those speakers and the D300.

**Kingrex** · October 15, 2019, 10:35 PM

What did you like about the piece you selected. Why the Gryphon.

**UltraFast69** · October 15, 2019, 11:48 PM

Kingrex Rex came over and listened to some music, flirted with my wife then finally picked up an ADD-POWR Everclear off the table to add to his collection and left only to be texted later saying great things about his sound.

**AJ Soundfield** · October 16, 2019, 08:18 AM

Well, bit of a twist is what I'm doing this weekend, rather than done. The Suncoast Audio Society (SAS) is having our monthly meet in Gulfport/St Petersburg. On deck is a live music performance by cellist Carlos Audi (Brazil) and Adam Booher on piano (using the hosts Steinway baby grand).
The performance will be digitally and analog (reel>reel) recorded. https://www.meetup.com/Suncoast-Audi...nts/264261763/
Afterwards, we will play back the recordings on hosts dedicated audio room/system downstairs - Einstein/Hegel/Hot-rodded Quad ESL 63/Gradient dipole subwoofers.
Should be fun.

cheers,

AJ

**bluegrassphile** · October 16, 2019, 09:16 AM

Originally Posted by Kingrex

What did you like about the piece you selected. Why the Gryphon.

Oh boy...not sure I can put it into words. But here goes...crystal clear, cleeeeean, natural, perfectly balanced frequency spectrum, just the right mix of openness vs warmness; tight, focused, clean bass, just the right amount of bass, biiiiiiiig, deep, sound stage, all instruments and vocals are very discrete across the sound stage, you can close your eyes and know exactly where each musician is standing on the stage, D300 has everything you want/need and nothing you don't. Chocolate ice cream with strawberries. There. How's that?

**AJ Soundfield** · October 21, 2019, 09:25 AM

Just superb music. Didn't know beforehand, both musicians are professors of music at local colleges. May be seeing them again!

**Mike** · October 21, 2019, 09:32 AM

I had a blast to AJ. Fabulous event.

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**Kingsrule** · October 21, 2019, 12:03 PM

Went to Lake Street Dive show Saturday...Rachel Price can sing, what a voice!!!

**brad225** · October 21, 2019, 05:33 PM

Originally Posted by Kingsrule

Went to Lake Street Dive show Saturday...Rachel Price can sing, what a voice!!!

+1

**Kingrex** · October 21, 2019, 07:54 PM

How does the tape sound???

Originally Posted by AJ Soundfield

Just superb music. Didn't know beforehand, both musicians are professors of music at local colleges. May be seeing them again!

**AJ Soundfield** · October 21, 2019, 08:48 PM

Originally Posted by Kingrex

How does the tape sound???

Good and bad. Because of it's inherent "enhancement", there was more distortion and some kind of "rumble" that gave a "fullness" to the sound.
If you are sitting away (mid-far field) from the musicians like the audience (the mics must be placed nearfield of the instruments), that low frequency spectrum sounds more natural, because of a) the room loading and b) the HF losses due to air/reflected absortion vs distance. So the tape has a sort of auto EQ that is perceptually pleasing. But as you move up the spectrum, you lose detail. The sublty of the instruments is lost, especially the cello as the bow moves across the strings. It's more of a homogenous mush.
The digital OTOH sound more "lean"/"sterile", again, due to the nearfield placement of the mics and lack of LF boost/distortion to "warm" the sound. The mid>HF sounds far more defined, you can hear every subtle variation of the strings, etc.
So there's good/bad with either. Btw, the reason why the mics must be near, is that they don't "hear" the way 2 ears/brain do.

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