Northwest GTG for Angel City Audio - JANUARY 29th

[sbisheff]

In celebration of Hugh's new company's, Angel City Audio, new Trinity (LCR combo) I am hosting a GTG at my house in Monroe, WA - JANUARY 29th, 2011 at 12:00 noon. This will go till probably 4-5:00 and we will have refreshments, food, and some beer and wine. This is going to be a pretty informal event and is going to be set up with people able to come and go as they please. Hugh will be here in full effect to talk about the company and the speakers so it will be a great chance to meet and great with The Man himself :) I really think we're going to have a lot of fun!

Here is a pic of some of the gear that may or may not be there ;) (the speakers definitely and we're working on the rest of the gear):



We are going to have two different setups going in different rooms:
Main Living Room - 2 Channel
Trinity L&R
Strata Mini's
Possibly another set or two for rotation. Mike is working on bringing a set of his franken-omnis seen here:http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=87374.0
Melody Integrateds - MK88 and possibly the AN300B!!
Onix XCD-50

Theater Room
Trinity LCR
MFW-15's X 2
Onkyo 805
Oppo 83SE for Blu-Ray and 2-channel playback via the analog outputs on the Oppo
Toshiba HD-A30 for HD-DVD
Panasonic PT-AX100U Projector (720p) and DIY 97" Screen

EVENT SCHEDULE
The plan is to start around noon and do 2-channel listening in both the upstairs dedicated 2-channel room as well as downstairs in the movie room. Since the setups will be so drastically different it will give people a chance to listen to what the Trinity can do in a dedicated space as well as a more conventional "family room" type of atmosphere. This will help keep the noise levels down so that critical listening can be done in both locations.

Around 2:00 we're going to stop both setups, gather and grab food and if its nice, possibly go out side for some fresh air :) This will also be the time where Hugh will get a chance to talk to us about Angel City Audio as well as the Trinity and how they are positioning themselves in the marketplace with their own line of speakers as well as the Onix and Melody offerings. I think it will help people get a true understanding of what is behind the company and where it is going. Nhan (one of the dealers) will be on hand as well to help answer questions (hope that's ok Nhan that I volunteer you!).

After lunch and talking, we'll resume 2-channel listening upstairs but will put the full force of the Trinity on display downstairs in the media room.

Plan on finishing roughly around 4:00 but if there's a few stragglers still kicking around, we won't kick you our right away :)

If anyone has suggestions of what they'd like to hear or see please let me know. Also, be sure to bring your own listening/viewing material if its something you really want to hear. I have quite a bit of music/dvd's but not nearly eclectic enough to satisfy all tastes. Plus, everyone has their favorites they like to demo with :)

Since my house isn't all that big we are going to keep this as a relatively small event with 15 people max. I am going to keep this post as the master list (I will have the same post on other forums) so please PM me if you are going to come and what your email address is. I will then email everyone a week before the event with my address.

Attendees:
Scott (skeeter99)
Lisa (my wife)
Hugh (Hugh)
Jack Day (dad)
John (father in law)
Shawn (ShawnMC)
Randy (TechFan)
Nhan (PhenomeNhan)
Kris Deering
Will (Sir.Byrd) - AudioKarma
Will's Father
Dave Williams (Spalls) - AudioKarma
Mike (Beatcoaster)
Jeff (jephdood) - maybe
Mike (mca) - Audiocircle - maybe
Tyler (WiFi-Spy) - AVS
Randy (rseynaev) - maybe
markmarc (Mark) - maybe
kerux (Andrew) - DIY Audio
tg3 (Thurman) - Audiociricle

Looking forward to seeing you all!

Scott

[dguarnaccia]

Awe rats Scott, I'm going to be in Australia during your gtg or I'd love to be there. Best of luck to you guys, looking forward to hearing the reviews and comments.

[sbisheff]

Awe rats Scott, I'm going to be in Australia during your gtg or I'd love to be there. Best of luck to you guys, looking forward to hearing the reviews and comments.

I was just upstairs thinking about your GTG and whether or not you'd be able to come. Too bad! Although I'm sure being in Australia will be much more fun than hanging out in Monroe :)

[Hugh]

I got to get to Australia one of these days. :)

Who knows, we just might have a gtg there in the future.

I was just upstairs thinking about your GTG and whether or not you'd be able to come. Too bad! Although I'm sure being in Australia will be much more fun than hanging out in Monroe :)

[Sandbagger]

I got to get to Australia one of these days. :)

Who knows, we just might have a gtg there in the future.

I am game..... Australia is a fun place, but havent been since 91

dguarnaccia where are you headed?

[sbisheff]

Updated attendees list

[Hugh]

Cool.

I see Kris may be coming.

I'd love to hear his take on Trinity vs Ref3 since he's the original reviewer of those. :)

Updated attendees list

[sbisheff]

Exactly, that was one of the reasons I specifically asked him. His knowledge base is HUGE and will be able to give some really good feedback on them :jiggy:

Cool.

I see Kris may be coming.

I'd love to hear his take on Trinity vs Ref3 since he's the original reviewer of those. :)

[dguarnaccia]

I am game..... Australia is a fun place, but havent been since 91

dguarnaccia where are you headed?

First Brisbane, then up to the Hamilton Islands (great barrier reef) to do some snorkelling, then down to Sydney for a tradeshow, then stopping in Hawaii for vacation with the family over thanksgiving week. Should be a long but fun trip..will be on the road for 3 weeks straight.

[ben9732]

Cool.

I see Kris may be coming.

I'd love to hear his take on Trinity vs Ref3 since he's the original reviewer of those. :)

Too far to send mine ......

[Hugh]

I already compared to my stock Ref3 here a few months ago and I still like what the Trinity can do with 1 exception that Ref3 does go a tad lower.

This is naturally due to the Ref3's bigger cabinet. :)

I do have the Ninja Master crossover but haven't got time to do it.

On the other hand, I can say with no uncertainty that I much prefer the Trinity over the Ninja all-out mod for BigFoot.

Too far to send mine ......

[Hugh]

To also add to this chain of thought, during RMAF (while I was away shaking people's hands), according to Tim Evans, the designer of Vienna Acoustics did spend more than a few minutes listening to the Trinity.:clapper:

I'll leave it to Tim to expand on this.

[woofersus]

I have to admit the names and faces have blended together a bit at this point with a few exceptions. That might have been me and it might not have been. :no clue: There were a lot of industry folks in our room digging the sound though. In particular I remember Lonnie from Emotiva went back and got the rest of the guys from their room to hear ours. There was somebody from Aperion whose name I can't remember now. Fritz Henderson stopped in, I saw Danny Richie at least once, and Gary Dodd stopped in several times to hear how much the amp had changed each time as it burned in. Of course Bill Baker spent a good deal of time with us, but that as as much social as anything. :)

[ben9732]

Hugh,

I don't doubt that you have a great product in Trinity and really hope the sale of it does well. I think both your implementation, and Sean's DR XO design bring new and improved characterizations to what I thought was a very good speaker.

I hope people don't think my comment of sending out the standard Ref 3's was as a challenge to Trinitys. My thought was audio memory is so unreliable that if Kris were to make comparisons, it would be more meaningful as a direct comparison. Hopefully as these speakers are marketed there will be a pair out on the East Coast at some point as I would like to hear what you have done.

[woofersus]

I'm sure there will be several more gtg's over the next few months, providing people are willing to host them. The Trinity's will definitely make it out to the east coast at some point. Hopefully near enough that you can check them out! "thumbsup: