Posted by mqracing (M) on May 27, 2008 at 19:43:42

at VSAC 2008. Who showed. Any pictures? Who won the Grand Prize?

Curious minds would like to know.

thanks.


MSL



Builder of MagneQuest™ & Peerless™ transformers since 1989

• Hank, Bas, Tsingle, Mark, etc..... thank-you for your posts (nt) - mqracing 12:14:56 05/31/08 (0)
  In Reply to: RE: Can anyone post or tell us about the Craftsman's room.... posted by mqracing on May 27, 2008 at 19:43:42

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• RE: Can anyone post or tell us about the Craftsman's room.... - Hank Murrow 21:50:31 05/30/08 (0)
  In Reply to: RE: Can anyone post or tell us about the Craftsman's room.... posted by mqracing on May 27, 2008 at 19:43:42

  tsingle999 posted VSAC2008 pics at
  
  http://www2.snapfish.com/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=225921707/a=34839084_1096523/groupid=2621170/groupownerid=1096523/t_=34839084
  
  Enjoy! Hank
  

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• vsac 2008 picture gallery with Hank Murrow's pic - Bas Horneman 09:52:30 05/30/08 (0)
  In Reply to: RE: Can anyone post or tell us about the Craftsman's room.... posted by mqracing on May 27, 2008 at 19:43:42

  http://basenjes.de/vsac2008/
  
  If anyone has more pics I'll gladly put them up.
  To infinity and beyond!!!
  

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• RE: Can anyone post or tell us about the Craftsman's room.... - Hank Murrow 12:20:54 05/29/08 (2)
  In Reply to: RE: Can anyone post or tell us about the Craftsman's room.... posted by mqracing on May 27, 2008 at 19:43:42

  Mike: I have more pics, but they didn't use MQ iron. If you want them, let me know where to send them. Portland OR DIY community seems to have a bias towards other folk's iron for some reason. Seattle is thoroughly in the MQ camp. I am relentlessly a MQ guy, and this is a MQ forum.
  
  

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  • I'd love to see more pictures..so everyone can mail them to me - Bas Horneman 02:20:26 05/30/08 (0)
    In Reply to: RE: Can anyone post or tell us about the Craftsman's room.... posted by Hank Murrow on May 29, 2008 at 12:20:54

    and I'll put them up in a vsac gallery.
    
    Regards,
    bas
    To infinity and beyond!!!
    
    

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  • RE: Can anyone post or tell us about the Craftsman's room.... - mqracing 19:15:23 05/29/08 (0)
    In Reply to: RE: Can anyone post or tell us about the Craftsman's room.... posted by Hank Murrow on May 29, 2008 at 12:20:54

    Thanks Hank for your thoughtfulness and for being in "our corner"!!!
    It's really appreciated and makes me want to work even harder to win over some of the Portlanders :=)
    
    On the aesthetic front--- a cool looking amp that is crafted well and which exhibits originality and excellence is always welcomed to be displayed on our forum.
    
    Our sponsorship of the Craftsman's room at VSAC was to support the diy community in celebrating the amateur builder's craft irrespective of which components he/she choose to use.
    
    And again Hank--- coming from a great artist as yourself--- your confidence in our products means a lot to me.
    
    MSL
    
    
    
    
    
    Builder of MagneQuest™ & Peerless™ transformers since 1989
    
    
    

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• RE: Can anyone post or tell us about the Craftsman's room.... - Hank Murrow 06:41:23 05/28/08 (10)
  In Reply to: RE: Can anyone post or tell us about the Craftsman's room.... posted by mqracing on May 27, 2008 at 19:43:42

  
  
  

  
  Here is a pic of the winner of Mikey's award........ I have more pics of the Craftsmans Room if you like.
  
  

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  • RE: Can anyone post or tell us about the Craftsman's room.... - tsingle999 11:14:32 05/28/08 (0)
    In Reply to: RE: Can anyone post or tell us about the Craftsman's room.... posted by Hank Murrow on May 28, 2008 at 06:41:23

    Those amps sounded as good as they looked too! Its sort of hard to tell from the pic but those amps have a really big footprint and some serious (seriously large) iron!
    
    

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  • RE: Can anyone post or tell us about the Craftsman's room.... - mqracing 07:04:31 05/28/08 (8)
    In Reply to: RE: Can anyone post or tell us about the Craftsman's room.... posted by Hank Murrow on May 28, 2008 at 06:41:23

    Hi Hank:
    
    I really wish I could have made it out to VSAC. Your one of the folks I would have really enjoyed meeting in person--- and I read somewhere (hope I have this correct) that you were having an exhibit down the street at a gallery? Is there a url for the exhibit\gallery or your own url?
    
    I'd love to see more photos of the Craftsman's room, the amps, the people.
    I hope it was fun and had a good vibe. Also, if anyone has a photo of the wall banner we had made I'd really like to see it and save a copy.
    
    thanks,
    
    MSL
    
    
    
    
    
    Builder of MagneQuest™ & Peerless™ transformers since 1989
    
    
    

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    • RE: Can anyone post or tell us about the Craftsman's room.... - tsingle999 19:40:32 05/28/08 (0)
      In Reply to: RE: Can anyone post or tell us about the Craftsman's room.... posted by mqracing on May 28, 2008 at 07:04:31

      
      
      

      
      Here was another excellent amp in the craftsmen room! as beautiful as the one that won but in a different metallic way! It was very large too about 3' by 2' with big iron
      
      

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    • RE: Can anyone post or tell us about the Craftsman's room.... - Hank Murrow 07:46:35 05/28/08 (4)
      In Reply to: RE: Can anyone post or tell us about the Craftsman's room.... posted by mqracing on May 28, 2008 at 07:04:31

      
      
      

      
      Damn! Can't remember his name, but here is a Soul Sister with B7 outputs which sounded very sweet in the big system.
      
      

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      • That would be mine - MarkER 18:25:41 05/29/08 (2)
        In Reply to: RE: Can anyone post or tell us about the Craftsman's room.... posted by Hank Murrow on May 28, 2008 at 07:46:35

        Thanks for the compliment and posting this, Hank.
        It isn't really a Soul Sister as it uses a 6AM4 triode with very different operating points than those of the original 5842/5670 Soul Sister ones, and the cap is tied to the plate, not ground, as in that design, But it is active loaded and has the B7 15K nickel outputs.
        And in my completely biased view, it did sound really good with those 300B amps.
        Mark Rerek
        
        

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        • RE: That would be mine - mqracing 19:09:55 05/29/08 (1)
          In Reply to: RE: That would be mine posted by MarkER on May 29, 2008 at 18:25:41

          Mark:
          
          That's a really handsome pre-amp. Did you make the chassis or buy it somewhere?
          
          I love seeing the creativity and craft from you guys. Really makes it fun and provides me with a sense of reward in the respect of us having made a samll contribution in your work.
          
          Cool stuff and kudos to you.
          
          With your permission I'd like to use the photograph in our streaming "
          polaroid" at the top of this page. I wanted to do one stream of just DIY projects that use some MQ produced iron.
          
          MSL
          
          
          
          Builder of MagneQuest™ & Peerless™ transformers since 1989
          
          
          

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          • Thanks, Mike - MarkER 19:30:14 05/29/08 (0)
            In Reply to: RE: That would be mine posted by mqracing on May 29, 2008 at 19:09:55

            I made the chassis starting with a Hammond aluminum box 16" X 8" X 3". Drilling the 1.75" holes for the ASC caps was a challenge. The rest wasn't too bad. I used the Bottlehead Seduction layout as a guide to keep noise low including using their PT-1 power transformer.
            It is fine with me if you use the picture as it is a real compliment, but we should ask Hank as it is his pictures posted here.
            I've also included a link to my AA page which has several photos as well as the schematic for this project. You are free to use any of those that you like.
            

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      • RE: Can anyone post or tell us about the Craftsman's room.... - Hank Murrow 07:56:39 05/28/08 (0)
        In Reply to: RE: Can anyone post or tell us about the Craftsman's room.... posted by Hank Murrow on May 28, 2008 at 07:46:35

        
        
        

        
        And under the hood of the Soul Sister linestage with B7s and Current sources.
        
        

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    • RE: Can anyone post or tell us about the Craftsman's room.... - Hank Murrow 07:38:22 05/28/08 (0)
      In Reply to: RE: Can anyone post or tell us about the Craftsman's room.... posted by mqracing on May 28, 2008 at 07:04:31

      
      
      

      
      Thanks for asking about my pottery show. Here is a pic of Dan & Eileen along with Mike Romanowski checking out my work at the Aurora Gallery in Vancouver. Scott Woods bought the best piece from my show and completed a very pretty amp in the Amp Class.
      
      Cheers, Hank
      
      

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    • RE: Can anyone post or tell us about the Craftsman's room.... - Hank Murrow 07:25:36 05/28/08 (0)
      In Reply to: RE: Can anyone post or tell us about the Craftsman's room.... posted by mqracing on May 28, 2008 at 07:04:31

      
      
      

      
      Mike; Here is a pic of my mockups of the 6C45Pi/300B TFA2004 Jr. with cobalt slices, along with a mockup of my Soul sister 6C45Pi/ B7 cobalt outputs with TVC. I brought the mockups in order to get some advice about magnetic interactions, and Paul Joppa gave me a half hour tutorial.... sweet guy. I should have gotten an award for the most procrastinating builder, as I have had these parts too long without finishing the project!
      
      So I brought along my Glow One SET amp and Omega Super 5 speaks to at least make some music in that big room. lots of folks loved the sounds from this little 5 watt system. Jacqui Naylor played great, and we got a comparison when she gave us a 16 song live performance Sunday evening. This was a CLASS VSAC!
      
      

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