More VSAC.....

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As you all know, the press was there in spades. Steve Rochlin and Dave Clark have posted some great pics and you'll links on the overall VSAC coverage page.

Bent Audio was there with their Bent Flat speakers. These are a unique driver design that are a result of 25 years of research by Mr. Furuyama of Japan. As the name says, it's a rectanglar, flat driver that goes up to about 10Khz and was augmented by a ribbon tweeter. The drivers are sold for DIYers, not as a finished product. The bass from these speakers was unbelieveable. We kept looking for a sub which wasn't anywhere in sight.

I don't recall where I found these ASL amps.

Randy Bankert had a prototype of his new speaker there, the Audist Concerto, $3,595, along with Audion electronics and Amazon Model 2 turntable.

The speaker below is uniquely constructed from Bamboo and uses a Jordan full range driver. The super tweeter box is separate and can be added later. Response is ~70-20Khz with a price tag of $2,400.

The Bamboos were drived by this Solar Audio intergrated amp which uses a tube front end design by Jena Labs and a Class D digital amp built from LC Audio modules. It's 250 watts and priced at ~$3,300.

I believe this is the Two Bald Guys rack.

Jim Hagerman and his Hagerman Technology Trumpet Phono stage, $1,895. With the cover off, you can see that the power supply is separated below the rest of the electronics.

Danny Richie with his GR Dilucci speaker, $995 as a kit, $1,729 finished. The kit includes top quality parts and everything you need including solder. Build your cabinet and you ready to go.

Alon Loudspeaker. And finally, we come to the Bottlehead room.

I don't care what they said at the Digital Shoot-off, the best source at the show was this Ampex 350 tubed, open reel tape deck. Below is Michael Romanowski of Stubblebine Mastering threading up a master tape.

The lastest Bottlehead Climax speakers were driven by an active crossover and helped out on the bottom end by a sub. For $400, these ought to be a great buy. There's only one catch, you'll need an active crossover and a second set of amps.....clever Doc.

Four of Doc's new Paradox 2A3 amps were driving the Climax speaker. The new Paradox kit is claimed to by about 90% complete and will allow one product to be built as either a 300B or 2A3 with parallel feed.

Doc B getting happy with pal, Paul Stubblebine. Well, that's it folks! See in Denver next time.

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Topic - More VSAC..... - Rod M 12:23:50 10/09/03 (9)

That ampex tape machine ... - Mike K 20:38:39 10/10/03 (3)

Re: That ampex tape machine ... - Doc B. 19:50:10 10/12/03 (2)

Re: That ampex tape machine ... - Rod M 19:09:34 10/13/03 (1)

Re: That ampex tape machine ... - Doc B. 15:41:28 10/14/03 (0)

Re: More VSAC..... - Vinylly 12:41:03 10/09/03 (4)

Need more development? - dave 01:10:22 10/10/03 (1)

Re: Actually I Was Thinking: - Vinylly 13:56:26 10/10/03 (0)

Hi Rod M! - Quest 13:33:05 10/09/03 (1)

Re: Hi Rod M! - Rod M 14:23:32 10/09/03 (0)

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