Brought a Fisher 400 inside today, putting it on the variac tonight.
CLEAN CLEAN CLEAN unit.  I'll make sure to bring it to the meet.  I
have some 500's and a couple 800's also.  The 400 just caught my eye,
so I chose to start on it.

Cheers,
Russ

There is an official/unofficial meeting this weekend. Info below.
Even though not a DAC meeting, most DAC members are Texas Bottlehead
members too. Just in case someone was overlooked. jim...

Greetings. The next meeting will be held in North Dallas at Ken
Leibowitz's home. The map is on the tinyurl link below. You may need
to copy and paste
http://tinyurl.com/59etb
If the link is lost, Ken's address is
5525 Vista Meadow Drive, Dallas, Texas 75248 The time has been set
for noon to about 7:00 PM. Ken will be providing finger foods, pizza,
chips, dip and soft drinks. You are welcome to BYOB. The room for our
gear will be Ken's A/V room and it's a nice one. Ken requests RSVP
and his email is...
seyeth@h... If there are questions or problems and Ken can't
be reached, feel free to contact me at jimrivers3@c... I
personally hope to see some nice new DIY toys including speaker. See
you then. jim...

In folder titled Sept. 11 Thanks for hosting Ken!

I've got one, having it brought up on the Variac and gone through.
Its in GREAT condition.

I'll keep you posted, just wanted to let you know I've got you
covered.

Cheers,
Russ

Russ, Mike and Frank. Serious listeners

Looking for an old stereo console.  I don't care if it's completely
gutted either.  I doesn't matter if it has the amp / speakers, I've
got a funky project in mind.

Let me know if you have one, or know someone that does.

Cheers,
Russ

Even MORE photos added, sorry for the delay fellas..

Cheers,
Russ

Hello folks, We've had some good meetings, including the latest
Bottlehead which was in our area. That was held on a Saturday and
several members have said it would be easier to make a meeting on
Saturday instead of Thursday nights. So I think the next meet should
be on a Saturday. Whaddya you guys think? Maybe October 2nd? Russ has
volunteered to host. If that doesn't work out, I can do it. Please
don't feel shy about offering to host. That should keep things fresh
and interesting for everyone. jim...

----- Original Message -----

From: jim@...

To: dallasaudioclub@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 10:53 PM

Subject: [dallasaudioclub] Next meeting Oct 2nd

Hello folks, We've had some good meetings, including the latest 
Bottlehead which was in our area. That was held on a Saturday and 
several members have said it would be easier to make a meeting on 
Saturday instead of Thursday nights. So I think the next meet should 
be on a Saturday. Whaddya you guys think? Maybe October 2nd? Russ has
volunteered to host. If that doesn't work out, I can do it. Please
don't feel shy about offering to host. That should keep things fresh
and interesting for everyone. jim...

There will be a Audio Group meeting this Sunday near Downtown, you are
all invited to come. More detail in Audio Circle web site under North
Texas Audio Jam Group.

Hello Mike,
  Sorry it's taken me so long to repond. We can make the rules as we
go but so far the host has supplied snacks and drinks. Bring some
favored Cd's or SACDs so we can all be exposed new music.
Wives/girlfriends are welcome. This IS America. 8:-) jim...
If I host --- In dallasaudioclub@yahoogroups.com, "The Willing
Family" <mwilling@c...> wrote:
> Hello Jim,
>
> Saturday sounds like a good day.
>
> However, Having 3 kids still at home, I never know sometimes what
is really going on.
> Where does Russ live?  And what does the DAG do at one of these
meetings, since I have never been t one?
> Do you go out  to eat?  Or eat in with snacks or just listen to
someone's favorite music? Or do we bring our own?  Do the missus's
come?
> Obvious, I am ignorant here. So let me know.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike Willing
>
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: jim@f...
>   To: dallasaudioclub@yahoogroups.com
>   Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 10:53 PM
>   Subject: [dallasaudioclub] Next meeting Oct 2nd
>
>
>   Hello folks, We've had some good meetings, including the latest
>   Bottlehead which was in our area. That was held on a Saturday
and
>   several members have said it would be easier to make a meeting
on
>   Saturday instead of Thursday nights. So I think the next meet
should
>   be on a Saturday. Whaddya you guys think? Maybe October 2nd? Russ
has
>   volunteered to host. If that doesn't work out, I can do it.
Please
>   don't feel shy about offering to host. That should keep things
fresh
>   and interesting for everyone. jim...
>
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Hello again Mike. Russ lives in McKinney but on the South side. We
listen to new music. Go ooh and ahh at any audio toys we've not seen
or heard before. Just enjoy music and the company of like minded
people. jim...
--- In dallasaudioclub@yahoogroups.com, "The Willing Family"
<mwilling@c...> wrote:
> Where does Russ live?  And what does the DAG do at one of these
meetings, since I have never been t one?
snip....snip,.....> Obvious, I am ignorant here. So let me know.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike Willing

----- Original Message -----

From: ka yeung

To: dallasaudioclub@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 10:42 PM

Subject: [dallasaudioclub] North Texas Audio Jam group meeting this Sunday

There will be a Audio Group meeting this Sunday near Downtown, you are
all invited to come. More detail in Audio Circle web site under North
Texas Audio Jam Group.

Tom, If he doesn't respond here, ask member "shooter" on audiocircle
and he'll send you the address. jim...
--- In dallasaudioclub@yahoogroups.com, "Tom Russell" <tomjoy@f...>
wrote:
> I'm a Dallas audio guy. I looked up the meeting on the Audio Circle
site and I could not find an address for this meet. Can you tell me
the location?
>
> Thanks
>
> Tom Russell
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: ka yeung
>   To: dallasaudioclub@yahoogroups.com
>   Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 10:42 PM
>   Subject: [dallasaudioclub] North Texas Audio Jam group meeting
this Sunday
>
>
>   There will be a Audio Group meeting this Sunday near Downtown,
you are
>   all invited to come. More detail in Audio Circle web site under
North
>   Texas Audio Jam Group.

Hello Music and Audio dudes and dudettes,
   The next DAC meeting is this Saturday at Russ' house. Metting time
will be from noon until............ Because this is our
first  "weekend" meeting, our hope is that the Ft. Worth, Cleburn,
Denton, Terrel?, etc. members will be able to attend. As well as the
Thursday regulars. Bring some interesting music, gear and good cheer.
I know I'm probably forgetting someone on this list so let me know or
let THEM know. See you then. Map below. jim...

Russ Gates' address is.... 5801 Hidden Pine Lane, McKinney Texas 75070

My cell is 214-287-7476, for questions, directions, etc.

In a nutshell, I-75 north to the Eldorado exit (39 I
believe). 'Loop' around and head WEST. 6 or 7 lights. You'll pass
a 7-11, a Kroger, and come to the intersection of Lakeforest and
Eldorado. AT that intersection, you will see a Chevron on the
northwest corner, and Shell station on the southeast corner.

Take your SECOND left after said intersection. The Street is
Woodson. If you get to a CVS Pharmacy you've gone too far, turn
around. First street you come to is Hidden Pine, I'm RIGHT on the
corner and

The 'man cave' rig will be the same, but I'm working on a couple
suprises for you guys in the living room.  Lets see if I can pull it
off in the next 4 days.

There will be tons of options, as always, and I'm happy to be
the 'roadie' and plug in whatever you like.

Cheers,
Russ

Thanks Russ for having us over and hosting the meet. All three rooms
sounded fine. I enjoyed the music and company and look forward to the
next meeting. Max your cat must be the real music lover in your
house. He was always in the sweet spot. 8:-) jim...

jim...

Always a pleasure to have you guys over, fingering my gear, eating my
food, and drinking my booze.

Fun times, looking forward to the next one!

Cheers,
Russ

The next meeting is planned for Thursday, November 11, 2004

      Greetings Dallas Audio Club members and Devotees of Vacuum Tube
Audio

      I will be hosting the next meeting on Thursday evening from 6:00
P.M. until 10 or so in the evening. Food will be softdrinks, pizza,
Subway sandwiches and maybe more. BYOB. Depending on December holiday
commitments, this may be the last scheduled meeting of 2004. For your
listening enjoyment, there will be two rooms set up.

ROOM 1:
Snell C/V (5) speakers. 90db efficient
Speaker cable Vampire Wire CCC from Chimera Labs
Amp pair #1: AES (Cary) 845 single ended monos, 32 watts per channel
Amp pair #2: Dynaco MK IV's Mullard EL34's
Linestage Alan Kimmel base, Handmade by Jim. Uses two 6CG7's/HEXFETs
in a Mu follower setup.
All interconnects and most internal wiring is Audioquest long-grain
copper or Vampire Wire Continuous Cast Copper.
CD transport is a heavily damped and tweaked Pioneer DVD player
driving a Scott Nixon tube output DAC.
At least one turntable will be in operation in at least one system...
A Denon AC Direct Drive with Shure V15 or a Music Hall MMF-7 with
high output moving coil.
A modified Dynaco PAS phono stage with no electrolytics in the B+.
Mac MR 67 tube tuner
RF transmitted computer stored music.
ROOM #2:
JM Lab Daline 3.1 transmission line/ported speakers 91 db efficient
(or so they claim)
Speaker cable Vampire Wire CCC from Chimera Labs
Amp pair #1: Heatkit iron including Acrosound TO-300 output
transformers.  long tailed pair circuit designed by Walter
Delesandri, homemade by Jim.
Linestage Alan Kimmel base, Handmade by Jim. Uses two 6CG7's/HEXFETs
in a Mu follower setup. Internally, similar to the living room
linestage.
All interconnects and most internal wiring is Vampire Wire Continuous
Cast Copper.
Digital sources includes a second Scott Nixon DAC plus a modified
Rotel DAC/switcher that handles most non Redbook CD based digital.
This would include HDTV, DTV, DVD, DAT, computer stored music coax
fed to the DAC.
Polk Audio sub for movies
      There will be room and time to listen to other tube amps / tube
preamps / phono stages, SACD and DACs that may be brought by guests
Including my pair of Fried TL speakers, a pair of 300B amps or
two....... Maybe other Jim goodies if I can finish building them
before the meeting.  Come one, come all and have a good listen. jim...

Jim

I'm looking forward to the meeting.
Looks like you have some nice toys to play with.
Actually, pretty serious stuf since you built most of
it.

I'll need directions as I don't know where you live.
I finally got my email working again so I'm
re-connected to the world.  ($&)(#*w^R VIRUSES

Tim


--- "jim@..." <jim@...> wrote:

>
> The next meeting is planned for Thursday, November
> 11, 2004
>
>      Greetings Dallas Audio Club members and
> Devotees of Vacuum Tube
> Audio
>
>      I will be hosting the next meeting on Thursday
> evening from 6:00
> P.M. until 10 or so in the evening. Food will be
> softdrinks, pizza,
> Subway sandwiches and maybe more. BYOB. Depending on
> December holiday
> commitments, this may be the last scheduled meeting
> of 2004. For your
> listening enjoyment, there will be two rooms set up.
>
>

You can copy and paste the tiny url at the bottom and it will
magically turn into a Yahoo map or just use my directions below. See
you Thursday night. jim...
2107 Scarlet Oak Dr , Richardson , Texas 75081  homephone   972 470
9107
Verbal directions are... go north on 75 and take the Belt Line exit
in Richardson and turn right (east) on Belt Line or Main St (they are
the same street) At that corner it is less than four miles, traveling
east, to Jupiter Road. You turn left (north) on Jupiter and go about
100 yards to just over a bridge to the first left which is Ponderosa.
On Ponderosa you turn almost immediately right on the first street,
Mistletoe. Going north on Mistletoe, you will turn left on Scarlet
Oak and I'm the third house on the right.

http://tinyurl.com/3kp9y

Looking forward to it Jim!

Cheers,
Russ

Thanks to North Texas Audio Jam at http://www.audiocircle.com/circles/
and 'everyone' involved. You know who you are. Things are coming
together in North Texas for audio DIYers and "regular" audio dudes
and dudettes. After inviting The Jam and The DAC,  26 folk filled my
house last night. 27 including my poor wife who tried to keep food
and drink on the table. Good music and good conversation was alive
and well. I hope a good time was had by all. I certainly enjoyed the
bash. So much so that I forgot to take photos till late in the
meeting. Photos will be posted here later today. Two tube audio
systems were in use and a couple of guys brought their DIY tube and
speaker projects. The only disappointment was I didn't get a chance
to talk a lot with each person. Can't wait for the next music bash.
There was one jacket and one cooler left behind. Darn! No one left
any CDs or records. When I came up with the DAC club idea, one of my
goals was to find and enjoy good music I was unaware of. Remember the
good old days when you could find interesting music on FM? We are a
diverse group with a loose or non existant set of club rules. Maybe
each person that hosts a meeting should lay out HIS (or HER) rules
for THAT meeting. My point being that I most want to learn of and
listen to new music more and do less swapping and switching out of
gear. The next host may want to try lots of cable, speakers, amps,
etc. Most all of us are probably open to some degree of both. When
you host, let us know your special interests and "rules". jim...

Well, I meant to say. Novemeber 11th meeting. jim...
--- In dallasaudioclub@yahoogroups.com, "jim@f..." <jim@f...> wrote:
>
> New photos are up of the Oct. 11 meeting. 8:-) jim...

Future hosts will have their choice of the day (or night) of their
meeting. Several guys have asked me to host on Saturday or Sunday
because of their long drive time and work schedules. I understand the
problem but Russ held a Saturday meeting and only one long distance
member made the meet. The only solution I see is for that month's
host to choose what's best for him. Tentative for December is a
meeting hosted by Nelson Spence. jim...

We are half way to our limit on Photos storage. At some tome in the
future, I will start pulling photos. Starting with the oldest
meetings first. I'll probably leave one intersting photo from each
meeting. If anyone wants to copy and save any olders photos, now
might be a good time to do so. jim...

I want to thank Jim for having us over to his house. A good time was
had by all.  Please edit out my midsection in the next round of
photos.

Thanks,
John S.

Scott Nixon DAC with "homemade" chassis, built from one of his kits.
Here is a nice looking kit project done by an email pal who lives out
of state. His comments are quoted below. Since at least 6 Dallas
Audio Club members have Scott's DACs, tube or SS, I thought I'd share
this photo. I've one on order, my third and first kit version, but
may not show the insides when finished. It probably won't be as nice
as Larry's. 8:-) jim...
Larry says... "Digital made a big sonic step upwards with the
addition of this DAC in my system It is copper that I had shaped at a
metal shop, I did some brazing and drilling and then had it powder
coated. The front and back are veneered with African mahogany which I
also did."

Nice job! I found the same thing with the Scott Nixon DAC. I've
found it unnecessary to buy a pricey CD player because the SN tube
dac with a mid fi Marantz player as the transport beats the $1K
players I have heard. Currently using it in a system with DK Designs
hybrid integrated and Maggie 3.6's. Picture of the one I built at
http://fredt300b.smugmug.com/gallery/132868/1/4835923