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March Meeting Notice
« on: March 09, 2016, 02:23:23 PM »
The March meeting will be held on Friday the 18th at the Woodhaven, Queens home of Ernie Naples. Ernie proposes to demonstrate two dueling systems. Starting with his

CURRENT SOTA TECHNOLOGY – ALL Solid State System
Speakers are Linkwitz Labs (DIY) ORION 3.4 open baffle design with supplemental sealed subs, all using the Linkwitz active Analog Signal Processor. Each channel has five SEAS drivers (2T, 1MR, 2W), and two Peerless drivers (2W). Powering the 14 total drivers are two ATI 1807 multichannel amps providing 7 amps per channel, or 1 per driver; 14 x 180 watts rms into 8 ohms total system power. Whew!!

The media sources for the system are Wave files from CDs, ripped to 24/96 or 24/192 and stored on 2.56TB of SSDs. The media player is a Samsung Windows 7 core i7 laptop with SSD, running foobar2000, outputting to a m2tech hiFace Two USB3 to SPDIF converter. The output of the converter feeds the SPDIF input of an MSB Analog DAC with (optional) volume control and power base.

And for comparison, a completely updated

1970s SOTA TECHNOLOGY of the day - ALL Solid State System
Speakers are AR LSTs, an acoustic suspension design with nine drivers per speaker (4T, 4MR, 1W), using a passive crossover. Powering the speakers is a Carver/Phase Linear 700B, producing 350 watts (+/-) per channel (recently upgraded by Borrero & Assoc). The preamplifier for this system is a Carver/Phase Linear 4000.

A Marantz 8001 SACD/CD player provides the tunes. Other Related equipment is a Thorens Turntable w/Shure V15 III XMR cartridge. Sources are CDs, SACDs, Vinyl and reel to reel tape.

LETS SEE WHAT YOU THINK!!!! (HEAR?) Doors open at 7:30 with the formal meeting starting around 8:00.