[Pics]RMAF '07[Pics]

[docutech 10+ year member]

It has been a great weekend so far. I've seen and heard things I've never heard before. Great show!

Click here for part one of the pictures and here for part 2.

Enjoy!

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[joetama 5,000+ posts]

Nice... Hear anything you really like?

 

[docutech 10+ year member]

Yes, I really, REALLY liked the McIntosh Line Arrays and equipment. Although a bit out of my price range it sounded ohh sooo good:

I really liked the Sooloos Media Server. Two terabyte capacity, Raid configuration allows for seamless audio streams if one blade crashes.

I also liked this horn setup. It was very dynamic and the vocals were very impressive. Also a bit out of my price range:

And last but not least was the Martin Logan look-a-likes which aren't manufactured anymore (they were a personal speaker pair of the vendor) I forget what the name of those speakers was but they sounded very, very good.

 

[newusername 10+ year member]

Thanks a lot for the pictures.

 

[docutech 10+ year member]

Right on!

 

[req 5,000+ posts]

that last one is some kind of electrostat. supposedly makes for some amazing clarity - critical mass supposedly did a perfect 40 at a world finals SQ compeition with estat speakers they 'designed'.

cool stuff - i wish i would get to go to one of these conventions.

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

Man I wish I was there...

 

[ballstothewall 10+ year member]

The RMAF was pretty kickass, something came up and I had to leave late saturday afternoon though //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

Pete, docutech seems like a pretty cool guy too.

The McIntosh room was utterly kickass, the linearrays were amazing. My favorite room was the Cain & Cain room though, IMHO it is amazing what they do.

 

[SQBubble 10+ year member]

Would have loved to get a listen of these equipment, what is it exactly? people bring their home system and show them up? Or its each compagny shows their gears? btw, are these Rainbow Reference line?

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

Dealers and distributors bring their equipment to try to drum up new dealers and business...

It's pretty much just a trade show, but with REALLY cool equipment...

 

[ballstothewall 10+ year member]

but with REALLY cool equipment...

And snake oil salesman for some products. *IMO*

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

And snake oil salesman for some products. *IMO*

I'm not going to touch that one...

Lets just say from what I have read so far our opinions differ slightly...

But, don't get me wrong, I'm no cable extremist... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 

[ballstothewall 10+ year member]

It is the whole elevating the speaker cables off of the carpet, 'vibration dampening' tables that cost 1,000$ and everything that gets me. I do believe that to a certain degree some of the stuff helps out, but I think a LOT of it is just a placebo effect.

My .02$ //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

The McIntosh room had nothing special about the cables though. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[bigbangtheory 5,000+ posts]

Impressive stuff there. I wish I could get a listen to some of those. Betcha they sounded like pure ear ***!

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

It is the whole elevating the speaker cables off of the carpet, 'vibration dampening' tables that cost 1,000$ and everything that gets me. I do believe that to a certain degree some of the stuff helps out, but I think a LOT of it is just a placebo effect.
My .02$ //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

The McIntosh room had nothing special about the cables though. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

I think that cables off the floor is retarded. Seriously just goofy. I think that vibration dampening helps, but you can build that stuff on your own with a couple of shower curtain rings and some racquetballs...