lone star audio fest 2016

helipilotdoug

Ahhh yes, a good time indeed! I have not partied like that in a long time. Of course my poor old body can't stand that more than about once per year!

I want to thank Ron (txcoastal1) for giving Douglas Connection the room and his wonderful set up during LSAF. We got some great exposure and the system was superb. Thank you Ron

Nightfall

I haven't seen one picture of fear the beard ( @lightman1 ) , were you hiding?

txcoastal1

Great time indeed guys. Voltz's system is a lot fun. He sent me a text around 9:30pm "Got a room full" sure enough I grabbed a my big Yeti that was full of craft beers. Then some time after midnight we went back to the Blowtorch room, next thing I know it was after 3am. 7:30am came around quick as we still had to load up. Most of us also had 5 hour drives back home. I got home around 3:30pm, crashed and burned.

Nightfall wrote: »

I haven't seen one picture of fear the beard ( @lightman1 ) , were you hiding?

Like bigfoot he's only seen by a few.

helipilotdoug wrote: »

Ahhh yes, a good time indeed! I have not partied like that in a long time. Of course my poor old body can't stand that more than about once per year!

I want to thank Ron (txcoastal1) for giving Douglas Connection the room and his wonderful set up during LSAF. We got some great exposure and the system was superb. Thank you Ron

You're very welcome Doug and I'm glad everyone got a chance to enjoy it as it was the first time all the components were at the same place since I was trying to keep the new system on the DL from the wife.
Had Halen warming up the speakers in Dallas, as I warmed up the amps at home.

EndersShadow

@txcoastal1

Where is that big old music server you were talking about.

@helipilotdoug

I'd love a rundown of the gear. I see a HRT MediaStreamer Pro IIRC being fed by USB to a modwright something.....

txcoastal1

EndersShadow wrote: »

@txcoastal1
Where is that big old music server you were talking about.

I invited Doug to show his cables in my room a few days before the show. So not to complicate things we had two streaming systems attached, one he was familiar with (MAC and Amarra) and one I'm still learning MiND.

The Simaudio 780D is under the Modwright LS100 tube pre.

voltz

And no Marvin is not tipsy just want to show how tall they are as Marvin is over 6 foot tall.

dkfreebird

Man,I wish I could of stayed longer for all the late night fun.I really had a great time hanging out with Darryl and Marvin and checking out a lot of nice gear.I think I may just have to book a room next year so not to miss out on the after party.Thanks for letting me hang out with you Voltz and Marvin.I I did have a sighting of Lightman so even though there are no pics I can confirm he is real.

AsSiMiLaTeD

Great time as always this year, good to see you guys again. If any of you losers decide to get your lazy asses up to RMAF this year hit me up.

voltz

Marvin & Dennis and I went ot the Ten-50 BBQ and while we where in line Marvin ask this kid who was bring more meat up to the Servers about beef ribs, when the kid brought them close for Marvin to see them -Marvin was like oh is this my sample?

The Kid started back peddling really quick when we got up there we found out a 1 rib 1 lb piece of beef ribs was going to be about $35.

But the food was excellent and some of the best I have tried in Dallas, but I have not been to Hard Eight BBQ yet as we found out the Hotel will drive us to either Ten-50 or Bone Daddy's but not Hard Eight.

Also those Rosso Fiorentino's of Skip's is awesome for playing at really low levels and sounding stellar...most I've heard have to be played a lot louder to open up.

marvda1

I was blindsided by josh late Saturday night with the price on the $8000 speakers, if I had known early Saturday I would have ran to the bank and they would be at home with me now.

voltz

here is a pic of the speakers that Marvin was offered a super deal on...I pushed him as hard as I could but he keep jumping over that rabbit hole.

AsSiMiLaTeD

If I were still local I'd have taken them, but shipping them back to CO would have cut into the deal too much. That's an absurdly great looking and sounding speaker at that price...plus I REALLY loved the towers in the Stereo Clarity room.

EndersShadow

I'm guessing we are talking about the MTM's in the picture not the smaller ones correct?

I'd love either, I LOVE that purple look on the wood.

marvda1

yes, the mtm

[Deleted User]

I had an earth shattering different feeling towards JWM. I was there. It just did not do it for me. Maybe it's my preference, but I like full sound, mids driven. Not driven by all details by the high. I will give it one thing, it's high will smoke bowers any day but the mids were shot.

The Ones are dangerously close to ideal. To this day, nothing touches the elemental design bookies.

Halen

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LSAF this year.. Was good to meet locals again as well as those that traveled. You know who you are. Sorry I could not stay after hours, had too much going on but made every last second effort to be there.

Halen

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BT Ones video

youtu.be/R05dmEiqTuM

EndersShadow

halen wrote: »

I had an earth shattering different feeling towards JWM. I was there. It just did not do it for me. Maybe it's my preference, but I like full sound, mids driven. Not driven by all details by the high. I will give it one thing, it's high will smoke bowers any day but the mids were shot.

The Ones are dangerously close to ideal. To this day, nothing touches the elemental design bookies.

Halen

What are these you speak of? These the BlowTorch speakers Russman and Ron had?

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EndersShadow wrote: »

halen wrote: »

I had an earth shattering different feeling towards JWM. I was there. It just did not do it for me. Maybe it's my preference, but I like full sound, mids driven. Not driven by all details by the high. I will give it one thing, it's high will smoke bowers any day but the mids were shot.

The Ones are dangerously close to ideal. To this day, nothing touches the elemental design bookies.

Halen

What are these you speak of? These the BlowTorch speakers Russman and Ron had?

Yep

[Deleted User]

There is nothing from a mass producing sell out bowers to my highly regarded Elacs (non Andrew whatever versions). Yep, those Ones by Blowtorch.

EndersShadow

You guys are killing me lol....

I'm hoping the Blowtorch website will soon have more information on these speakers so I can read more about their special sauce

Nightfall

I've never heard of Blowtorch speakers, what's up with them?

ken brydson

Haven't heard from lightman? Is he in jail?

lightman1

Laying low at home before I go back to Iowa. Feels good but short lived.

EndersShadow

lightman1 wrote: »

Laying low at home before I go back to Iowa. Feels good but short lived.

He's HIDING from the police so he DOESNT get put in jail.

Stay thirsty my friend!

tonyb

Too many Russ sightings in one state. All the Bigfoot groupies will march into the area seeking to prove his existence. He has to lay low, maybe visit another state to throw them off track.

You guys look like you had a down right heck of a good time. Any responses, positive ones anyway, from the masses who visited ?

marvda1

i'll post some pictures tonight.
here's something strange, people would stop and read the signs outside doors and keep walking. i went outside several times and told them to come in.

marvda1

this was the whetstone audio room from austin texas. thoress 845 set amps @ $14,475 pr, preamp $11, 975 and at the bottom was the leban cs-600 integrated @ $6495. by the way the tannoy speakers come in at $19,500 pr.

marvda1

dskip's room.

marvda1

mark's maggies driven by a krell integrated.