New gear in the house

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Pictures of people getting new gear never get old, so I thought I'd post a few of the happy occasion.

The pallet sitting in the imaginary garage I don't have but wish I did:


This picture was mostly to document the condition of the box the AN300B resides in. This damage is not from the recent journey, but from the trip from Washington back to Hugh's place a couple of months ago. Judging by the perfectly un-squished box below, this shipping method would appear to be superior...


The AN300B sitting on my dining room table after heaving it up out of the box. It weighs almost 90lbs and while I did eventually carry it up the stairs by myself, I don't recommend that for normal sized people:


Here's the shiny new Trinity-C. I'm pretty sure the piano black finish is actually cleaning the air in my house judging by how quickly the dust gravitated to it. :woo:



I haven't unboxed the Trinity-LR's yet, but I'll get to that today. I need to get them broken in before a gtg that they are headed out to in a week and half. When I do, I'll snap some pics of them. I hooked up the amp to my Onix Monitor 1's last night to ensure it arrived in working order, and I have to say they never sounded so good.

[DeeJayBump]

Getting new gear is like Christmas morning.

Congratulations and thanks for the pics.

[woofersus]

After I got everything all set up, I took a few more pictures:


Glowing and singing:


Closeups of the glowing tubes:







I know the boxes as stands is a bit hokey, but I sold my piano black onix stands in anticipation of getting satin rosewood Trinity's. I have satin black stands but they're currently holding up the Bravo's which are doing computer duty. Since these are getting packed up for travel I figured I'd just go with the boxes for now. It's about the right height sitting in my computer chair actually.

Since the speakers are brand new and I'm showing them at a gtg in NYC next weekend I'm currently racing to get them broken in, which means playing music through them pretty much all day every day. Darn. :biglaugh:

[PhenomeNhan]

Congrats, Tim. Very nice gears. I love the look of the AN300B. Didn't you and I take turn using it for bicep curling exercises in Vegas? :D

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Congrats, Tim. Very nice gears. I love the look of the AN300B. Didn't you and I take turn using it for bicep curling exercises in Vegas? :D

Yes, I believe we did. Fortunately Michael Perry did the heavy lifting of the MN845's last fall in Denver before we got there. :biglaugh:

Even though I knew how much it weighed, I was a little surprised at how heavy it was when I picked it up. Good thing I've been hitting the gym! It's interesting to note that this amp weighs in at just about 1.5lbs heaver than a CS-18.1 :eek:

I'm a little sad to know I'm going to have to carry it back down the stairs, pack it up, and load it in my car in a few days.

[etcarroll]

Will your imaginary Vette go in the imaginary garage?

Looking forward to hearing this gear on Saturday.

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Will your imaginary Vette go in the imaginary garage?

Looking forward to hearing this gear on Saturday.

As long as we're imagining, how about something Italian? :woo:

Looking forward to the gtg too. Not so much looking forward to all the packing and hauling of gear I'm about to start doing...