Mid atlantic Bottleneck meeting.

[RayP]

I've posted a bit of a write-up and photos at
http://bottlenecksaudio.blogspot.com/2014/03/bottleneck-meet-march-2014.html

Again, many thanks to Steve for hosting again and to all who brought stuff along. It was great to meet everybody again and listen to new music.

Here is the link to the Heritage Blues Orchestra which really sounds good.
http://www.amazon.com/Still-Rise-Heritage-Blues-Orchestra/dp/B006JFZUJG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1396192704&sr=8-1&keywords=heritage+blues+orchestra

The Motorcycle trombone concerto which has the most amazing trombone playing.

http://www.amazon.com/A-Trombone-Odyssey-Christian-Lindberg/dp/B0000016HT/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1396192987&sr=8-3&keywords=sandstrom+trombone

We have tentatively set our next meet for Saturday, October 18 2014 at Steve's place or the nearby hall that is a bit larger than Steve's listening room.

A few of us have the urge to have another build an inexpensive amp competition, this time a low watt push-pull where you try to use components you already own, either recycled or new. We would use very efficient speakers. More details later in a separate thread but we expect it to be held on October 18.

We were pleased to have Roscoe along. He runs the DC Audio DIY group which is based in Washington and hopefully we can have closer contact between the two groups.  By the way, I would like to remind those in the DC area about the Capitol Audiofest to be held on July 25-27. http://www.capitalaudiofest.com/

Our Bottleneck group has also held meets in northern Maryland and Delaware so perhaps we could organize another meet sometime to suit the northern contingent.

 

[Doc B]

Nice write up Ray!

 

[roscoe primrose]

We were pleased to have Roscoe along. He runs the DC Audio DIY group which is based in Washington and hopefully we can have closer contact between the two groups. 

For anyone who wants to check out what's going on in the DC area: DCAudioDIY

Roscoe

 

[dgb]

Thanks for a wonderful day Steve. it's always so much fun explaining to my wife what i did all day. I love your speakers

 

[Paul Birkeland]

Sweet meet!

Doc and I were trying to remember who ended up with the HD650's that he had.

 

[castlesteve]

Many thanks to all who came to the meet. It was a real pleasure to see all the familiar faces. I thought it was an excellent meet with some great new music and plenty of interesting equipment. Roscoe`s amp and passive linestage was  really good and made the speakers really sing. Don`s guitar amp was really a work of art and sounded terrific also. I am already hunting through my workshop for parts for my low powered push pull amp which i am going to build for the upcoming competition later this year. Many thanks to Ray for the write up, he always does a wonderful job.
  Lets keep in touch on the forum regarding the competition and i think we said we might hold a mini meet mid summer to check out the new room and go over the plans.
    Steve.

 

[dbishopbliss]

Sweet meet!

Doc and I were trying to remember who ended up with the HD650's that he had.

Tony brought the MB Quart headphones and the HD650's.  Can I just say, that there was no comparison at all between them.  The MB Quarts were not listenable once I used the HD650's.

I wish I had known there was going to be a headphone station, I would have brought my Audio-Technica ATH-M50 to see how they compare.  I don't know if anyone here uses them.  I was using a pair of Sennheiser 570's and a pair of 500A's with my S.E.X. amp and I thought they were pretty good.  A co-worker bought a pair of the M50's and tried them out with my amp.  Huge Difference!!! I have retired both Sennheisers and have re-discovered a bunch of my music.  For $90 headphones (got them on Massdrop) they sound great to me.

As an aside... maybe we can have a headphone station at the next meet and people can bring what they have.  Who's going to build the Crackphones?