Great get together!
John, I just want to say thank you for a great time at your home. Everyone, you all missed out, big time! John was a great host, put out quite a spread of food and drinks and the experience was a lot of flat out fun! There was a lot of swapping out preamps, main amps, and speakers, as most of the guests were members of the Lone Star Bottleheads Audio Enthusiasts Society and they brought some of their gear. I had a great time discussing design elements and listening to the gear in action. These Bottleheads were good people.
John has at least three systems set up (that I saw). His main two channel system was putting out some great sound via a beautiful Cary preamp (finished in Jaguar red), an Ah Tjube CD player, a Rega turntable, 300 wpc Classe amp, and of course, ML Odysseys. Changes made to that system were various preamp, amplifier and speaker swaps. My personal favorite was listening to his system with the home made 25 wpc SET amp. I could not believe that amp could drive those speakers that well. Oh, John was so cool during all this swapping of gear. I don't think there is any way I could have let so many people mess with my system's connections, but it didn't even look like it phased him in the least.
John's theater room was awesome! I believe he had a complete surround system consisting of ML speakers, but by the time I got up there, those had already been disconnected and some home made gear was up and running. I have been wondering if I should get a projector or a flat screen for my home theater, but John's system persueded me to go the projector route. John emphatically reinforced that by agreeing when I asked him.
Anyway, here are some pics. John, if you could identify the people and offer any more info, please do. Thanks again for a great time!
Above is John, our host, and a couple of Bottleheads.
A couple more Bottleheads.
Above photo is of main two channel system. Below is the system with the home made 25 wpc SET.
Please note that a lot of people came to John's audio party. I didn't take pictures of most of the people that were there, as I took my pics early. There are many more (and better) pics at the Lonestar Bottleheads website.
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