VPI

Went to Grand Central during lunch to take some shots. Then I Occupied Wall Street for a bit on the trip home. Then took some boring building pictures

Does anyone remember the Amarra discount code that I saw 1000 times at the show and have now forgotten? I want to try Vinyl and it seems like the discount made for a decent price.

Do you have someone in the IR slot? I do not see any reason why you could not pick someone up. If you need help PM me the people you want and I can do it for you.

It is the 5D. I will shoot some ISO 3200 samples for you when I get home with both. I do not see a huge difference in image quality between the two.

I am interested in hearing your opinion of that cleaner. It would certainly look a hell of a lot better than the VPI in my listening room and if it is as fast as they say it should be about perfect.

Took some snap shots on the walk home tonight. Freedom Tower

I understand pancake lenses exist, Sony has the 16mm f2.8. What I am saying it that It is easier to make a shallow lens for a tiny sensor than a larger sensor.

The Olympus uses a smaller sensor so the pancake lenses are much easier to accommodate. I would love some nice pancake lenses, though it looks like some nice lenses are hitting the market in November.

The Nex5 is still around. I have no idea what the clicking video problem is as I do not have it. I am digging the Nex5n. Check out the High ISO (25600) response on this crappy shot.

I liked a whole lot of stuff there that I do not own.

The sound was not very good. Little dynamics, not very engaging, very little texture to instruments, difficult localization of soundstage particulars. Could all be the speakers I guess. The only room that I heard that I was less impressed with was the Red Wine Audio room. It was definitely the lowest priced gear I listened to so maybe I was biased by the megabuck systems I spent the rest of the show listening to.

I did not find the room impressive at all.

Happy Birthday

Forgot a couple. Todd was nice enough to have some etched beer glasses made for us.

Last few. Dinny at dinner Stretch's little desktop speakers Ginormous Audez'e Speakers Al and JP riding the Sanders roller coaster

JP put on an excellent event within an excellent event. He wore himself out making all of this happen and I have to say the end results were worth all his sacrifices. Had a great time hanging out with everyone, would have been better if some of the noticeable absentees had been present but I think we did the best we could to represent the HC Travel Team. I saw 4 different HC Travel Team bags in attendance.

Sitting at the airport with Dinny trying to find him some canned NYC air to breathe. My favorite speakers were the Acapella Horns, Vandersteen 7, YG Anat References and the big Vivid Audio Vagina speakers. The wall mounted Unicorn Semen Cups ($3800) used at the the Vivid room must have been working as the speakers sounded great. I want to buy everything on Todd's table and I really liked the LCD-3s.

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Have a fantastic Birthday Vicki!!

Mores

Rattle snake and pheasant hotdogs. --- I am here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.754475,-104.990638

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At the airport awaiting boarding. This morning I cannot remember why I decided I needed to fly out this damn early.