Pics of Brian's listening room

zybar · « **on:** 13 Jun 2004, 10:47 pm »

Brian,

Can you post some pics of your listening room?

I know it has been described, but as they say..."A picture is worth a 1000 words!".

Thanks,

George

Brian Cheney · « **Reply #1 on:** 14 Jun 2004, 04:05 pm »

Jim Romeyn loves posting pix on this board and has a new digital camera. Want his home phone number??

Brian Cheney · « **Reply #2 on:** 14 Jun 2004, 04:05 pm »

Jim Romeyn loves posting pix on this board and has a new digital camera. Want his home phone number??

zybar · « **Reply #3 on:** 14 Jun 2004, 04:07 pm »

I will ask Jim to take some pics when he comes over later in the month for the digital shoot-out.

Thanks,

George

James Romeyn · « **Reply #4 on:** 20 Jun 2004, 02:29 am »

Jim buys a great new Canon Rebel Digital SLR, then goes to load the accompanying CD software, & his CD-Rom is busted! Time for a new desktop computer. Who wants to peruse the Dell Refurbished offerings & tell Jim which one he should get, around $500 & I don't need a monitor.

zybar · « **Reply #5 on:** 20 Jun 2004, 12:44 pm »

JIm,

Sorry to hear about that. Luckily, computers are so cheap right now, you can replace it with a better machine for not much money.

The good news is that you can still take the pictures when you go over next week. You just might not be able to immediately upload them.

George

TheChairGuy · « **Reply #6 on:** 20 Jun 2004, 02:34 pm »

George/zybar,

If you'd like (and I can remember and Brian doesn't mind) I could take pics this Saturday, June 26 when we are getting together for a listening session at Big B's.

I have a Kodak with 3.3 megapixels; it takes nice shots. I'm not sure I'm clued in to what is so special about Brian's lisening room, but it'll probably be obvious to me when I see it.

Disco lights? Go-Go dancers? Hmmmmmmm

Jim/Brian/Alex, et al, we are still on for next Saturday?

zybar · « **Reply #7 on:** 20 Jun 2004, 02:37 pm »

Thanks.

I am not sure what is special either (hence the requests for pictures).

Everytime somebody goes there for a listen, they come away very impressed. Obviously a good reason for that is the gear, but I also think it is because of the room treatment.

George

John Casler · « **Reply #8 on:** 20 Jun 2004, 04:20 pm »

Brian's room is the classic, Live End, Dead End room.

I forget the dimensions but it is on the large side and the floor, walls and ceiling of the "dead end" are covered with acoustic foam and carpet. He also has (if I remember correctly an acoustic treatment in front of the front wall and bass traps in the two front corners.

The live end is tile floor, and non treated walls and ceiling. It also has a sliding glass door on the rear of the right wall, and an opening to the kitchen on the rear of the left wall.

It has a piano and several pairs of VMPS speakers up against some for the walls (facing the walls)

Brians listening chair is a roll around "office" chair so you can try various distances, heights, and positions. (I'm not sure about the height adjustment)

I sits on what seems to be a concrete slab and the bass (from lower to upper) is most impressive.

I have never seen my "ribbons" (neopanels) move. At Brian's they seem to move almost like dynamic speaker cones!!!

The most significant sonic feature I think is the acoustic properties of the LEDE set up.

Once I had heard it, I wasn't happy until I was able to impart some of the same properties to "my" rig and room.

I have one picture (but you cannot see anything of usefullness) of Brian and Mark Schifter in the room beside the RM40 at one of our meetings. The LEDE is not only a "Sonic Black Hole" (sucking out all room produced junk) it is also a very dimmly lit room with light entering from the sliding glass doors at the right rear and being absorbed in the DE. This makes photos of it hard to see.

Here is that pic:

guest1121 · « **Reply #9 on:** 22 Jun 2004, 03:01 am »

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Jim buys a great new Canon Rebel Digital SLR, then goes to load the accompanying CD software, & his CD-Rom is busted! Time for a new desktop computer. Who wants to peruse the Dell Refurbished offerings & tell Jim which one he should get, around $500 & I don't need a monitor.

Jim, I don't know much about the Digital Rebel, but assuming it is writing your pictures to some type of memory card, you don't necessarily need to load any software in order to transfer the pictures from your camera to your PC. Just use a memory card reader; if you don't have one, you can pick up a 6-card reader from any Best Buy or similar consumer electronics store and I don't think they're much more than about $20. You connect it directly to your computer via a USB port (usually). Once you've taken the pictures, remove the memory card from the camera and stick it in the card reader, which will "recognize" the pictures on the card. You can simply drag and drop the JPEGs into any directory on your PC right from the memory card.

You may already know this, but just thought I'd mention it.

James Romeyn · « **Reply #10 on:** 22 Jun 2004, 11:34 pm »

So you don't think I even need the camera software loaded? That's interesting. Thanks for the tip. I did not know the photo data is automatically stored as a jpg.

The fact is my new Dell should arrive Thursday, deluxe with DVD-burner! Whoppee!

StevenACNJ · « **Reply #11 on:** 23 Jun 2004, 11:00 am »

Quote from: RibbonSpeakers.net

So you don't think I even need the camera software loaded? That's interesting. Thanks for the tip. I did not know the photo data is automatically stored as a jpg.

When you have the memory card reader plugged into the usb port on a computer, the memory card reader appears like another drive on your computer system. Windows XP already has drivers for most of the memory card readers - mine is a ZIO.

After everything is connected and your memory disk is inserted in the memory card reader, if you go into like Windows Explorer and click on my computer, you will see the memory card reader just like the A (floppy drive), C (hard drive), or D (cd drive).

Just click on the memory card drive and you will see all your image files as .jpg files and you can do what you want with them from there.

Redbone · « **Reply #12 on:** 23 Jun 2004, 04:36 pm »

Quote from: RibbonSpeakers.net

So you don't think I even need the camera software loaded? That's interesting. Thanks for the tip. I did not know the photo data is automatically stored as a jpg.

The fact is my new Dell should arrive Thursday, deluxe with DVD-burner! Whoppee!

Congrats on the Dell, it is a good choice IMHO. You can either plug the camera directly into a USB port using the cable provided with the camera, or use an external USB card reader like others have suggested. Windows XP will automatically recognize the device either way.

Tip: Don't forget to click the Hardware icon on the lower right corner of the Taskbar to Safely remove Hardware before you unplug the camera (or memory card). Failure to do this can make for problems when you go to plug the camera in on later occaisons.

sbcgroup1 · « **Reply #13 on:** 24 Jun 2004, 03:12 pm »

Quote from: Redbone

Failure to do this can make for problems when you go to plug the camera in on later occaisons.

ANYthing makes for problems with Windows. The OS sux! Just get a Mac and relax in peace:)

That's just my 2 cents...over the years of becoming a PC expert because they failed all the time, I just trashed the idea all together and became a Mac crusader. Very happy!!!

-Ed

nathanm · « **Reply #14 on:** 24 Jun 2004, 03:55 pm »

I noticed, in Win2K at least, that even when you invoke the silly formal ejection of a USB device such as a card reader and take the card out the OS will still nag you about improper removal next time you boot up. You actually have to remove the USB CABLE itself from the machine and not just the card. Sheer idiocy if you ask me. I am not sure if XP shares this family retardation or not.

In any case I am looking forward to seeing Brian's ginormous room as well.

sbcgroup1 · « **Reply #15 on:** 24 Jun 2004, 03:57 pm »

Quote from: nathanm

Sheer idiocy if you ask me.

Yep.

-Ed

Redbone · « **Reply #16 on:** 24 Jun 2004, 06:24 pm »

Quote from: nathanm

I noticed, in Win2K at least, that even when you invoke the silly formal ejection of a USB device such as a card reader and take the card out the OS will still nag you about improper removal next time you boot up. You actually have to remove the USB CABLE itself from the machine and not just the card. Sheer idiocy if you ask me. I am not sure if XP shares this family retardation or not.

In any case I am looking forward to seeing Brian's ginormous room as well.

You are correct, Win2K has problems with USB disconnects. XP seems to work fine as long as you remember to "Safely remove Hardware".

dubravko · « **Reply #17 on:** 24 Jun 2004, 10:03 pm »

I'm constantly removing USB memory sticks and cameras without "safely ... " procedure and I don't have any problem with XP. Maybe it's hardware dependent.

Pics of Brian's listening room

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