October Rave (mfsoa)

[mfsoa]

Hi Putz,

I'm 5 min south from Exit 12 off of Rt 78.

20 min west of 78/287 intersection.

Hope you can make it.

Must be having complete brain fart  EWR??

[tmazz]

Must be having complete brain fart  EWR??

EWR is the three-letter code defined by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to designate Newark Liberty International Airport. Kennedy is JFK, LaGuardia is LGA, those I understand. How Newark Airport ended up being EWR is a mystery to me. 

[Barry (NJ)]

Nice. Me too. Exit 29.

Hoping to finally break my Rave Cherry

Excellent! Mike's further out, like Exit 12 iirc, but your closer than most of us

[lonewolfny42]

OK I thought about it Charles and I'd love to hear the Uber in my system, and the Lenehans if they come in.

Hope the Lenehan's arrive...they should be very good....

[Maxamillion]

I'm just off exit 26 in Branchburg, so I'm pretty close by. I'll have to check  but I may be able to make it.

[mfsoa]

Max, now that you've divulged your location, you have one less excuse for not showing up    Seriously, hope you can stop by.  My wife works in Bburg, off of Harlan School...

I have to start putting the room back together today (mother-in-law moved out for surgury yesterday).

If anyone needs directions, please PM me. I have a feeling that the Yahoo group knows how to get here already so that means may not be effective for directions.

My wife Sharen is of course bugging me to start getting a head-count, so if anyone does plan on coming please let us know.

More info to follow (room, system etc.)

Foliage should be good this year.

[jbtrio]

Hey Mike, did you ever get in touch with Barry?

[Barry (NJ)]

Hey Mike, did you ever get in touch with Barry?

I haven't gotten any calls or PMs(?) What's up?

[evan1]

Hey Mike, did you ever get in touch with Barry?

I haven't gotten any calls or PMs(?) What's up?

Barry can always be reached on facebook. Or call Cuban Pete's , I hear he likes the Mojito's 

[jbtrio]

Not you Barry. Barry who sells evolution acoustics. Mike wanted his number.

[evan1]

Not you Barry. Barry who sells evolution acoustics. Mike wanted his number.

Who's on first ?

[mfsoa]

Hey Mike, did you ever get in touch with Barry?

Nope haven't called yet

[Barry (NJ)]

[mfsoa]

I'm bored so I'd like to post a little info about what to expect - Nothing new for those who've been here but hopefully we'll have some fresh meat faces for this GTG-

HT room:  I have a kinda modest HT setup in a 18 x 19' ish room - midrange Marantz receiver, PS3, 58" plasma, nice B&W inwalls (3 in front and 3 in back), small Velodyne sub. So we can check out BluRays etc, so if you have some concerts that'd be fine. I just got the LOTR BluRay set if anyone is interested - the sound is super.
At Raves we usually set up an ad-hoc system in this room, completely separate from the HT gear. I can provide a Forte preamp and if Tommy brings Digital Amp Co goodies for the other room we'll have an extra amp too.  So this room is ideal if anyone wants to bring monitors, sources, integrateds whatever. In past years it's been fun to hear how these systems morph throughout the day and end up sounding really sweet by the evening.

2-channel room: Smaller room (13 x 17') dedicated to stereo only. Von Schweikert VR4 MKI, VAC Standard MKII pre, Digital Amp Co Cherry Plus w/ super duper 1800 watt transformer Class D amp, Squeezebox Touch, Eastern Electric DAC (original but w/ boffo op-amps), ProJect Perspective Carbon TT w/ ProJect Tube Box SE phono pre.

I'd like to leave this system intact for just a little bit so folks can hear it, but then who knows? Depends on what shows up. I'm certainly open to cables (XLR or RCA) or power cords. Hopefully Rollo can bring the UberBuss - interested to hear it on powerful Class D amp. The room is very well treated, most would say way too overdamped, but I like it that way - you get the clearest sound and best imaging w/out all that damn echo slappin' around.  I'll try to borrow an SACD player so bring SACDs. And my TT is working fine so if want to hear vinyl...

House - We just got a new roof yesterday, and since it cost at least 2 pr of really nice speakers, everyone notice!
2 nice but big-ish dogs, and they will beg. Sorry 'bout that.
There are speakers on the deck, which if nice we can enjoy.

Extras - I'm hoping Tommy will have the RMAF Cherry Ultra Monos in hand. It'll be fun to have 1200+ (?) or so watts per side.
Hopefully Charles Rollo will have the Lenehan ML-2 (Manhattan maybe?) speakers. I do not have speaker stands for monitors.

As always we'll play it by ear and have a great time.

If anyone has any CD that I simply must hear bring it and we can rip to the server. Laptop will be here so if you want to bring a thumbdrive...

Still looking for headcount so if you think you are coming please let me know.

Wives more than welcome (hint hint for Mrs. Pumpkinman to show) and we can even keep kids happy w/ a trampoline and rope swing.

[eleazar]

enjoy.



Wives more than welcome (hint hint for Mrs. Pumpkinman to show) and we can even keep kids happy w/ a trampoline and rope swing.

I was supposed to work that weekend, but since another tech was just hired on Thurs. I find myself free to attend now.........Bill
I can't speak for Mrs. P