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• Alan October 2011

  Moderator

  Shamelessly pinched from a topic on art of Sound where Chris (The Grand Wazoo) caught my eye with this picture:
  
  

  
  

  Image Copyright Richard Pechner http://www.rpechner.com/Music/Grateful-Dead/2383161_fC4gTZ#125637035_yb958
  
  Just look at this: http://www.dozin.com/wallofsound/wospic2.html
  
  It is the Grateful Dead's sound system (no PA for them!), which utilized over 26,000 watts from Macintosh amps and many JBL speakers. Apparently, the sound quality was rather good!
  
  Articles here:
  
  http://www.dozin.com/wallofsound/index.html
  
  ftp://gdead.berkeley.edu/pub/gdead/interviews/absolute-sound
  
  http://www.audioheritage.org/html/history/jbl-pro/jbl-pro.htm
  
  

  Life: Trek it or Wreck it.
  
  
  Main: [ Qnap TS 110 NAS ] > Modified Apple MACmini (Mountain Lion, Audirvana +) > M2Tech Young DAC > LightSpeed Attenuator (LDR) > XIV 10W SECA Amplifier > Royd Revelation RR3 Speakers
  Belkin PF40 Mains filter for all digital gubbins
  Cables by Tellurium Q and DIY.
  
  Office: FooBar2000 > HRT Music Streamer 2 > NVA AP20 > JPW Sonata
• Alan October 2011

  Moderator

  
  

  
  

  Image Copyright Richard Pechner http://www.rpechner.com/Music/Grateful-Dead/2383161_fC4gTZ#125637035_yb958
  
  
  

  Life: Trek it or Wreck it.
  
  
  Main: [ Qnap TS 110 NAS ] > Modified Apple MACmini (Mountain Lion, Audirvana +) > M2Tech Young DAC > LightSpeed Attenuator (LDR) > XIV 10W SECA Amplifier > Royd Revelation RR3 Speakers
  Belkin PF40 Mains filter for all digital gubbins
  Cables by Tellurium Q and DIY.
  
  Office: FooBar2000 > HRT Music Streamer 2 > NVA AP20 > JPW Sonata
• uglymusic October 2011

  Administrator

  Ooooh, mine's enormous  :"> :-L \:D/

  
  

  Sorry. I thought I'd get in before someone else did. 

  Take a look at these hands!
  Main: White MacBook/SSD/OS X Lion/Audirvana Plus -> Tellurium Q Digital Interconnect -> M2Tech Young/Super TeddyReg PSU -> TQ Blue Interconnects -> TQ Iridium Listen Pre-amp -> TQ Blue Interconnects -> Green Goddess Single Ended Class A 12 wpc Power Amp -> TQ Ultra Black and Graphite speaker cables -> Royd RR3 speakers/Royd stands
  Ugliness depositories: Synology DS411slim NAS and FireWire Drobo
  Office: KingRex USB DAC and PSU -> Passive pre ->TQ Atom power amp -> Mission 761 speakers/desk
  Visit my website, Writing For SEO
• mattlynch October 2011

  Member

  mine is tiny  but performs well
  :-j
• Alan October 2011

  Moderator

  Look do you think I posted these pictures so you lot can make smutty comments?
  
  Oh, you do?...
  #-O

  Life: Trek it or Wreck it.
  
  
  Main: [ Qnap TS 110 NAS ] > Modified Apple MACmini (Mountain Lion, Audirvana +) > M2Tech Young DAC > LightSpeed Attenuator (LDR) > XIV 10W SECA Amplifier > Royd Revelation RR3 Speakers
  Belkin PF40 Mains filter for all digital gubbins
  Cables by Tellurium Q and DIY.
  
  Office: FooBar2000 > HRT Music Streamer 2 > NVA AP20 > JPW Sonata
• uglymusic October 2011

  Administrator

  What smutty comments?  O:)

  Take a look at these hands!
  Main: White MacBook/SSD/OS X Lion/Audirvana Plus -> Tellurium Q Digital Interconnect -> M2Tech Young/Super TeddyReg PSU -> TQ Blue Interconnects -> TQ Iridium Listen Pre-amp -> TQ Blue Interconnects -> Green Goddess Single Ended Class A 12 wpc Power Amp -> TQ Ultra Black and Graphite speaker cables -> Royd RR3 speakers/Royd stands
  Ugliness depositories: Synology DS411slim NAS and FireWire Drobo
  Office: KingRex USB DAC and PSU -> Passive pre ->TQ Atom power amp -> Mission 761 speakers/desk
  Visit my website, Writing For SEO
• Docfoster October 2011

  Moderator

  Alan said:

  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Hilarious.
  All Royds apparently...
  

  Pioneer PL-71 (Decca SG), NVA Phono 2, NVA TFS, NVA P90SA pre-, NVA TSS mk3 power-, NVA Cube 1. (Also an NVA AP30 powering the 12inch bass units of a pair Goodmans Goodwoods. Just for some extra slam.)
  TechniSat HD Freeview into Musical Fidelity A3 24 192k DAC and InFocus X9 720p DLP projector.
  Power Inspired AG1500 mains regenerator.
  Mainly NVA cables, but with TQ Ultra Black speaker cables.

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