Our system photo at Keggie1

Thanks to everyone who came into my room (102) for a listen and big thanks to @edd9000 for room sitting so I could get a break.

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Sounded lovely :+1:

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I just knew you would bring it along. I was ready :laughing:
Cheers mate :+1:

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I have requested two room for HFS next year again but i would prefer if other members did it, or we do a (or both) as co-op rooms. It is good craic, far more fun then trade shows and the Sat evening is like a Dublin Pub, people falling into the room pissed, dancing and singing to the music and then somehow falling out of them again.

I spoke to Peter and he again said any forums are welcome to book rooms as group efforts in the forum name, sadly HFS was the only forum to do it this year.

It won’t give up…

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Small hotel, can’t do any more. In my personal view, the hotel is shit as a venue.

FWIW I thought the NVA system was better than expected, but the speakers are not to my taste, there is something badly wrong in the midrange presentation.

The amps looked nice. Cheap CD player as a source, not quite sure what he is trying to say there.

The last time I heard NVA was at Scalford and it was shockingly bad.

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This was the sound I liked most room 4.

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The hotel is probably about right for the event. It lacks the charisma of Scalford Hall but is easier to get to and around. Walls are more solid too, so feedthrough is less of a problem (though still there, especially in the big rooms downstairs which only have moveable dividers - maybe just use the two end ones and leave the middle clear?).
Can’t see a classy hotel putting up with the event, tbh, or being affordable.

I exhibited last year but not this. I can’t see the point of a forum entry, we are all individuals and most are members of more than one forum. Combined efforts between individuals can be fun, as Tim, Kate, Mark, Micky and Rick showed this year and others have done in the past.

I popped into the NVA room briefly (only a few chairs, and no door sign stating kit in use, which was a pity). Sounded OK but I was off to one side for half a track only. The amps certainly looked nice.

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When I saw them out was in a huge room probably eight times the volume that the speakers could cope with. The sound was laughable, but there was a reasonable excuse.

It’s always a challenge to take a bunch of kit and plonk it down in a room and with relatively little time, try and get it sounding good. When you consider the amount of time we spend getting kit that works well in our own specific listening environment, it’s always going to be am immense compromise in an unfamiliar room.

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This. Also, all the posts criticising the various systems (and there used to be some really nasty stuff posted at times) fail to recognise the time, effort, expense and compromises that the exhibitors make. They just come across as rude and churlish.

FWLIW, I cannot see the point of forum based submissions. Most of us are, or were, members of AoS, Wam, PFM and others. We had that debate several years ago. It was a silly idea then and it is silly now.

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It can make sense to have a joint system, but only of like-minded friends, not of a forum. Any forum that can be represented by a single system is a sad forum indeed!

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I remember that room. It was never a great one - it felt like it was as high as it was wide (not good for the modes) and I don’t think it had much in the way of soft furnishings either. But as Jon says, hotel rooms are always a challenge.

VB

It was adequate when I played Voodoo Chile Slight Return on the system with Pete’s Coral horns and open baffle bass. That filled the room just fine.

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I enjoyed it, good to see familiar faces. One fellow had brought his giant quads from the Isle of Mull, so plenty of effort still being made on the exibhitor front.

Enjoyed looking after Ian’s room, played noodley jazz to my hearts content.

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Yeah, lots of us here have exhibited and viisted many times and know all about the joys of Saturday night.

This. There’s no need whatsoever to represent a forum or a particular brand etc, we’re all individuals.

More this! Very silly to criticise when people are making such an effort for the benefits of others. Same for bake offs, there’s always some clever dick who thinks he knows exactly how a bake off should be run, and wants to inflict rules for organising the fun for everyone :rofl:

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The L40 were a rebuild that sounded very good, no harsh highs at all, nice balanced sound. The 4430 clones were very special, fed by a lovely JVC ML10 (I think) power amp. Probably my favourite sound of the day, I even enjoyed Yello :wink:.

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I thought there was a Lenco Heaven room?

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Yes your right, my goof.

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