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<p><img class="story_image" src="http://www.stereophile.com/images/100913-Nelson_Pass-600.jpg" /></p> The 2013 <a href="http://www.burningamp.org">Burning Amp</a>, the <a href="http://www.diyaudio.com/forums">DIYAudio forum</a>'s "annual experiment in temporary community dedicated to radical self-expression and self-reliance," got off to a slow start. Although a semi-hidden posting about the one-day, all-volunteer event, held in six rooms at San Francisco's Fort Mason Center on Sunday, October 6, appeared months ago, the email blast to the Burning Amp mailing list only went out late on October 3. As a result, attendance was light, making it much easier to listen to music in the extremely live, audio unfriendly rooms.
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Central to every Burning Amp is <a href="http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/nelson_pass_patents/index.html"">Nelson Pass</a> (above), whose boundless generosity and support to DIYers worldwide has made him a father figure of sorts. (The gray hair helps.) This year, in addition to his presentation, "The Simplest Amp and Other Stories," Pass's Burning Amp Pass Pub room was transformed into an Amp Camp Amp Wonderland, where various amp designs mated with "a bunch of loudspeakers that you can make" (below)
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<img src="http://www.stereophile.com/images/100913-Pass_loudspeakers-600.jpg" width="600" border="0" /></p><p>
Pass took infinite delight in showing his "simplest amp," created with two transistors, a transformer and wire
[Source: http://www.stereophile.com/content/burning-amps-slow-burn]
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Central to every Burning Amp is <a href="http://www.stereophile.com/interviews/nelson_pass_patents/index.html"">Nelson Pass</a> (above), whose boundless generosity and support to DIYers worldwide has made him a father figure of sorts. (The gray hair helps.) This year, in addition to his presentation, "The Simplest Amp and Other Stories," Pass's Burning Amp Pass Pub room was transformed into an Amp Camp Amp Wonderland, where various amp designs mated with "a bunch of loudspeakers that you can make" (below)
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<img src="http://www.stereophile.com/images/100913-Pass_loudspeakers-600.jpg" width="600" border="0" /></p><p>
Pass took infinite delight in showing his "simplest amp," created with two transistors, a transformer and wire
[Source: http://www.stereophile.com/content/burning-amps-slow-burn]