Here's my Vintage/DIY centric point of view of the July 8-10, 2016 event at the Hilton Hotel in Rockville, MD.
EMIA
Custom turntable and tonearm
2 x 300B amps per channel
using high nickel content iron
wound and designed by Dave Slagle
Bi-amped stacked QUAD ESLs
DejaVu Audio
Mint Garrard 301 + Ortofon tonearm + Koetsu Rosewood
in a custom plinth
Custom tube preamp and amp by Aldo D'Urso using vintage Western Electric tubes, iron, paper in oil caps and carbon composition resistors.
Speaker system by Aldo D'Urso
Altec 803A woofers, 60s vintage Japanese horns + Jensen RP302 super tweeters.
Aldo D'Urso and Vu Hoang
DC Audio DIY
Joe Roberts' Garrard 301 + Schick 12" tonearm
in a custom plinth
Joe Roberts' Altec 756B in 2.5 cubic foot sealed cabinets on retro mid-century modern hairpin legged stands. Highs are augmented by Fountek ribbon tweeters through paper in oil caps and transformer attenuators. Hey Joe, you need Altec 3000s tweets there instead ;)
Custom GM70 monoblock amplifiers with hefty Tamura output transformers by David McGown
David McGown (center)
DCAudioDIY set up
Roscoe Primrose
Head honcho of DCAudioDIY Forum
Lots of LPs!
Yours truly with Herb Reichert and Joe Roberts ;)
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