It's time to start thinking about the next northern CA diy

[Mark K]

I know this is way ahead of time, but it's really never too early to start thinking about and designing projects for a get together. I'm actually shooting for mid-late summer. If a bunch of folks have projects they think they can get together by spring, that would be ok too.
If you're interested in attending, and participating with equipment, want stuff measured, have speakers to bring, please go over to our forum (no, it's not spam, although I don't particularly care for the advertising on the forum.) and post your name, whether you can bring stuff, besideds yourself, etc.

It's time to start planning and garnering interest. Plus, if you start thinking about it now, AND building projects now, then we won't have a bunch of xovers with clip leads for the diy... and more cool projects. So, that means you and your dipoles, Jon... ;x(

anyway, sign up at www.ncdiyaudio.com and post on the forum.

This isn't meant to be an ad for that forum-but I think that it's the best place to post on ideas and interest for the next northern CA diy... Certainly, you can post here about the next DIY. I, obviously check out both... : But, let's face it, no one goes to the ncdiyaudio forum...so that makes it perfect for a place to have an informal discussion thread directly relating to the next diy.

All the other cool audio diy stuff should come here...

mark

[JonMarsh]

Definitely interested, it just comes down to how long until it happens and how much I can get done- as usual, I'm inclined to bite off more than I can quickly chew- but the Arvo Isirs is a pretty safe bet...

Can bring some playback gear, of course, say a preamp, power amp, and SACD player (Marantz SA-11S).

I'll just need to buy or borrow or rent an SUV, because I can't put much in my two seater Acura.

[gmed]

Very interested. I just dont think I can finish my project by this Spring. Working almost 80 hours in the hospital and trying to work on the speakers is really tough, Im shooting for Summer. You mentioned Summer. Is that a possibility?

G

[joecarrow]

I'm in El Cerrito; where do you usually have this gathering? I'd love to go, but I don't think I'll have much to bring.

[cjd]

hmmm... thinking. ok, done. Nope, won't make it. :P

have fun though

Jon, rent a minivan - more room and the floor is low enough that it's not a royal pain to get projects in/out (compared to an SUV)

C

[JonMarsh]

I get an allergic reaction every time I get into a mommivan. Not sure what it is, maybe something in the upholstery.

You're right about the lift height, though some of the newer crossover models aren't bad to deal with.

[jonathanb3478]

I was at the last one, and would love to go to the next one. I could not have a project finished until the Summer time frame, however.

It would be nice to bring my own construction, but I would still love to attend, even if I had not yet finished anything. Especially if a working version of an Arvo Isirs was around for a listen.

No pressure, though. :twisted:

I will post on the NCDIY forum, once my request for a password is proccessed. :T

[Mark K]

Definitely interested, it just comes down to how long until it happens and how much I can get done- as usual, I'm inclined to bite off more than I can quickly chew- but the Arvo Isirs is a pretty safe bet...

Can bring some playback gear, of course, say a preamp, power amp, and SACD player (Marantz SA-11S).

I'll just need to buy or borrow or rent an SUV, because I can't put much in my two seater Acura.

I'm beginning to think you don't build speakers. In fact, maybe you're not even a real person. Just a big internet hoax. Prove yourself. :E

[jonathanb3478]

I'll just need to buy or borrow or rent an SUV, because I can't put much in my two seater Acura.

Odd, I will be bringing 45" tall ~150-pound/ea towers to the GTG in my Mustang GT (if they are far enough along).

Of course, I will have taken the front seat out of it, by then...

...just be creative. :T

:B

[JonMarsh]

I'm beginning to think you don't build speakers. In fact, maybe you're not even a real person. Just a big internet hoax. Prove yourself. :E

Now, you remember those little jobbies I brought over to the DIY in what, 2003 or 2004, the precurser to the Modula MT? The ones folks thought the sub was hooked up when we played Gaia from the James Taylor album?
Yup, that's the only speaker I've ever built in my life. The rest is a hoax. Just ask ThomasW.

But it's never to late to start, is it?


Anything look familiar about this picture?




Yeah, I know why you always complain about people bringing clip lead crossover projects to these meets.....




Well, maybe I can be more than a wannabe this year... work permitting!



~Jon

[cobbpa]

I'll just need to buy or borrow or rent an SUV, because I can't put much in my two seater Acura.

Pshhh. JonW can attest to how full an Acura can be (I think it made him nervous).

My 5 hour trip home from the west side of Chicago..my little CL brought back: Me, my girlfriend, 3 RS 3 way cabinets (2 towers & the center), 2 Modula cabinets, my dvd player, receiver, lots of tools, clamps, clothes, dvds / cds, and all the drivers and crossover for a full 7 speaker system.

I dare you to take the Isiris in your car.



Double dare you.


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[JonMarsh]

Pshhh. JonW can attest to how full an Acura can be (I think it made him nervous).

My 5 hour trip home from the west side of Chicago..my little CL brought back: Me, my girlfriend, 3 RS 3 way cabinets (2 towers & the center), 2 Modula cabinets, my dvd player, receiver, lots of tools, clamps, clothes, dvds / cds, and all the drivers and crossover for a full 7 speaker system.

I dare you to take the Isiris in your car.



Double dare you.


:

Now, a pair of Modula MT's and an Argaon amp and Ayre preamp should be possible- but just WHERE do you propose I try to stuff an Isiris, much less a a pair, in my car?



This is the interior- the WHOLE interior- nothing but engine behind the rear seats.



BTW, the trunk is that small area behind the rear hatch- that's where you can fit a pair of Modula 1 MTM's, OR a power amp, OR an SACD player.




A more recent side shot, to put it in perspective - the larger wheels unfortunately didn't add to the cargo capacity. Even if I pop the top like this, and try the Isiris in the passenger seat, I just don't think it's going to be a "go" from Houston, much less the local constabluary.

[AJINFLA]

Get a roof rack installed and strap 'em on like surfboards. You did say there were advantages from them being flat right?

cheers,

AJ

[truckman]

Now that this event is on my radar, I should be able to arrange to attend this time. By mid to late summer, I'm hoping to have something built that I could bring. Keeping my fingers crossed ...

[JonMarsh]

Get a roof rack installed and strap 'em on like surfboards. You did say there were advantages from them being flat right?

cheers,

AJ

I think I'd have to build custom fiberglass cases to feel they were adequately protected in that mode, AJ!

Renting another car might be a tad cheaper, don'cha think?

[kingpin]

Dear Jon.

Please don't take this the wrong way but you have greatly disappointed me.
Let me explain why.

Have you ever had a pre-conceived notion of what somebody looks like when you talk to them on the phone or have read about their work on the internet forums.

For the longest time since I have been on this forum when your name comes up I instantly get a vision of your avatar friend running around a time machine(speakers) with their hair flying all over the place in a panic cause there is not 25 hours in the day to accomplish what they want. I guess an eccentric nutty professor if you would. :lol:

You have now squashed my ideas of what you really do look like. You look just like a regular person. Not the eccentric mad man I once had you pegged for.

Oh well, as long as I never see a real picture of Evil Twin I will still be somewhat happy. :T

Mike

P.S. Please take this all with a grain of salt. I am not really that crazy.

:yeah: :yeah: :yeah: :yeah: :yeah: :heh: :heh: :heh: :heh: :heh:

[WillyD]

I should have known you drive something like an NSX.

Niiiiice.

[cobbpa]

[QUOTE=JonMarsh]

Even if I pop the top like this, and try the Isiris in the passenger seat, I just don't think it's going to be a "go" from Houston, much less the local constabluary.

[QUOTE]

You might be able to drive in the HOV lane if you arrange them well. :W

Honestly, I think the best vehicle for this trip might be the Honda Element. Can you rent appliances for a weekend?

[Dennis H]

That's not Jon in the pics. Mark maybe? Reliable sources have it that the Doc Brown pic isn't too far off so Jon's reputation as a mad scientist is safe. :B

[kingpin]

That's not Jon in the pics. Mark maybe? Reliable sources have it that the Doc Brown pic isn't too far off so Jon's reputation as a mad scientist is safe. :B

Now I feel like a dumb-ass. :frypan:

[JonMarsh]

That's MarkK in the pictures. He's the model of middle class civility and decorum. Has a nice family, too. Has a bad habit of clip lead crossovers at DIY meets, though.

Unfortunately, I look WAY too much like my Avatar first thing in the morning for my own comfort... a bit more brown and gray and less blond, though.

[AJINFLA]

I thought that was Mark. I prefer these St. Pauli Girl models though.

cheers,

AJ

[JonMarsh]

So do I! No offense, Mark, and I know his wife likes him just fine...

[Mark K]

Well, you know Jon photoshop'd me just to make me look mundane...

And I drive a 2006 Pilot. The one with a dvd player...It's what the overstressed middle class suburbanite drives his four kids to hot shots basketball class.

AJ, how'd you get a pix of my wife... :E

Well, almost anyway. She's been working out at the gym every day since our last child was born. She'd give the St. Pauli Girl a run for her money. Not sure what she's doing hanging out with me...but I'm getting too far off topic..

PS Jon, can you resize your jpegs of me a bit smaller to avoid inadvertant retinal damage to other readers... :rofl:

PPS I used to be thin, good looking and drive an acura. But it was stolen and stripped bare. Everything went downhill from there...seriously...

Don't make me tell you which famous diy'er this is

[---k---]

So Jon,
How do you get your MDF home in that? I'm back to being with Mark, you don't exist.

[cjd]

Too bad that Acura isn't stainless...

I'm still in my "affordable cars" phase though they probably qualify as slightly nutty - my hair is well on its way to getting parents to shy away and turn their kids so they don't have to look at me. Or is it to keep me from seeing them, I wonder...

It's a sign of genius, I swear. Mozart, Beethoven, Einstein, Feynman... yup. I can handle that.

At any rate, I *do* haul sheets of plywood home on a roof-rack.

This is my old Neon, but it gets the idea across...



C

[JonMarsh]

I have a sport truck for wood hauling- a 95 Z28 Camaro. If I have a LOT of wood to haul, I call up my daughter and she brings over HER Camaro, too.


Unlike me, she doesn't have scarey hair.