Pete, Guy and myself just got back from a weekend at the European Triode Festival at "Le Plague" France. It was sheer triode madness and to top it off there was a 16 horn and compression driver shoot-out! It was definitely le expérience ultime. Will hopefully post more when I recover.
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28-11-2010, 01:56 PM #1Founding Wammer
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Etf 2010
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28-11-2010, 02:16 PM #2Moderator
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That explains why it's been so quiet around here!
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28-11-2010, 02:30 PM #3Team Coco FTW!
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'Twas excellent (apart from the weather). Much horn & valve madness Serge would definitely not approve! :-P I'll post some pics later.
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28-11-2010, 02:36 PM #4Founding Wammer
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Pete having a chin wag with Le Cleac'h
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28-11-2010, 02:39 PM #5.
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Would've been interesting to have taken him along with you and heard what he thought about it all after though!
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28-11-2010, 02:54 PM #6Founding Wammer
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He might have imploded with all that thermionic radiation and horns! Originally Posted by voiceofthemysterons
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28-11-2010, 02:55 PM #7Team Coco FTW!
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He would have probably been surprised at how technical it actually was.
Some lazy buggers at the beach.... It's a hard life...
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Fuck, looks like a cool trip
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"Cool" is the operative word. As in "fuck me, it's so 'cool', my balls are going to fall off and roll across the car park"!
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>Clang!<
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The things we have to suffer in the name of uber-ultra high end. Mind you hearing Le Cleac'h give a lecture on horns was worth the trip. Nice funny chap. Originally Posted by gjm
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28-11-2010, 04:42 PM #12Super Wammer
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ffs absolutely gutted and only 30 minutes drive from my house, never heard about it before and this years theme right up my street.
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Amazing trip....more photos and info please please please!
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Some of these guys had it bad. One of the highlights was an expletive ridden lecture on Korean high end lunacy (care of Silbertone) & new circuit ideas by JC Morrison. Top stuff.
The house system with some very sorted VOT's was worth the entry price on its own. Nice to meet messrs Schick & Schroeder again too.
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Had a good chat to JC in Munich, that guy knows his onions.
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He does but he's also certifiable which is a good thing. Seeing him unload into a roomful of fairly serious minded German & French tube geeks was very funny.
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Some photos...
Bar system (Thomas Schick's Lenco-based TT, Sibaltone pre, Silvercore 833A amps, Altec VOTTs ) playing some nice jazz
Lovely Mercury glow from some RG1/250s
JC Morrison brought a prototype (seriously, the final version will not use PCBs, but be all hard wired with single crystal silver wire) of the Silbatone Phono pre-amp. This is what happens when a billionaire decides to build the best equipment possible with no expense spared.
Frank Bloehbaum's 6th order active crossover. These were the subject of a presentation and demo and sounded very, very good indeed hooked up to the house Altec VOTTs)
Guido Tent's mad power amp using huge numbers of parallel small-signal tubes
Scary 833A tube amp
Beautifully made L'il Sis DHT phono
"Wermachtsroehren" tube amp.
Some horns waiting for the shoot-out
and the room prepared
My conical horns in shoot-out with Jean Michel Le Cleac'h's 300Hz/TAD combo (I lost
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Other assorted DIY coolness...
Ok, this one's not DIY as this is a Zarathrusta TT
PHY-HP drivers in open back cabinets
Listening to the Silbatone pre through some very exotic filed-coil drivers in custom cabinets
Mmmm globes!
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29-11-2010, 12:43 PM #20There is no honk
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Looks like a great day out! I see that Klangfilm won the shoot-out. A quick Google takes you to their website:
http://klangfilm.free.fr/index.php?l...tle=&dir=&num=
And you are greeted by quite a piccie:
Attachment 5153
Fuck the horns, I just listen to the Snells now.
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