Ok, fellow audiophiles in the Las Vegas area and everywhere really (this is the
world wide web after all,) the first audio club ever in Sin City, has now completed its seventh meeting!
We had our sixth meeting 2 Sundays ago, (which was 2-23-14)
This time LVAC member Barry hosted the affair, with his dynamite 2 channel system featuring high end JBL speakers!
As usual, we had a great
time listening to a variety of tunes (CD and DVD) on Barry's system. We
could have listened for quite a while as the system danced like a ballerina. But it could charge like a rhino when asked to do
so. And of course, good food and drink were served. And
once
again, it was good times!
Right now we have 10 members, and we're looking for a few more good audiophiles in the Vegas area and beyond.
Again, meetings will be once a month.
So, don't be shy, we'd love to have you for the next meeting, and as of now it's still FREE to join!
Any questions? email us at:
dave_a_2005@hotmail.com or
motorcitydeadman@gmail.com
Photos
of the system are below. Photos were taken by club member Barry.
Here is the system rundown:
JBL 1400 Array loudspeakers w/2 1500 Array subwoofers
Sony TA-E1000ESD AV Pre Amp
Two Tascam CD-500 1RU Compact Disc Players
Panasonic BTD500 Blu-Ray Player
Panasonic ZT60 65" Plasma TV
Middle Atlantic UPS-2200R AVR for the Rack and TV
Jensen DM2-2XX ISO-MAX transformer
2 AE Techron (Crown Industrial) 7570 2KW Mono Block Power Supply/Amplifiers.
Furman Sound ASD120 Power Sequencer
Cables by Canare, the terminations are Neutrik. All the AC cords are Signal Safe low EMI by Middle Atlantic
Some notes on the system by Barry:
"The Sony is 22 years old but it has beaten every AAV Pre I have put it
up against for sound quality so if one must have an AV Pre."
"I
got sick and tired of finicky CD players. These sound as good as
anything I have owned and have every output imaginable including
balanced. They are only 1U to boot."
"The Blu-Ray player is Panasonic's Flagship player and sounds pretty darn good to boot plus I wanted one remote for video play."
"The ZT60 is also Panasonic's Flagship plasma TV."
"The UPS-2200R Is a
server computer grade UPS-AVR. After a high voltage power line fault at
my home destroyed two Crown amps, two JBL 2426 1" compression drivers,
two JBL 2123 10" midrange drivers, and the control panel in my air
compressor I decided that I was going to take some precautions against
idle hopes of that never happens again."
"The Jensen
Transformers serve two purposes, first they allow me to drive the amps
in true differential drive or balanced from an unbalanced source like
the consumer grade AV-Pre and keep the noise floor at an absolute
minimum, as you heard with your ear to the horn. Second, the amps being
industrial power supplies are DC coupled and have bandwidth to 100 KHz,
yup DC to light."
"The amps, the
7560-7570 chassis has been used by Crown a couple of times for
audio such as the Crown MA600, and the Crown Delta Omega which buy the
way powered Pink Floyd's The Wall Concert Tour, and by AE Techron for
things like MRI machines, shaker tables, high frequency electroplating,
relay testing, I mean you name it, I saw a demonstration where they ran a
skill saw with one and I used one on our fuel injector tester to
drive a set of Ferrari DI nozzles that require up to 90 Volts to open
under several thousand pounds of fuel pressure, our testers drivers
would not open them at all."
"The Furman sequencer is a six circuit 120 amp
sequencer. I ran a 40 Amp 240 Volt dedicated run for the stereo that the
Furman connects to. This allows the wife and kids to access any part of
the system with only the push of the AV Pre power button, and, if I
fell the need, I can turn it off and take the key leaving the system
totally inaccessible."
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