Going to California VII
As we make our way up and down the Peninsula looking for a place to settle our selves and our audio gear…
.. realize that we look at about 10 places for everyone that we go inside. Just by driving by we can figure out some of the access issues, the micro-climate, the neighborhood and more.
For example, in a quiet family neighborhood, we might be expected to get some pressure to turn down the music around 8 or 9pm when the neighbors kids go to bed. Now, mind you, *I* do not play the music loud very often, but Neli…. 😉
Large mid-Peninsula Home
The Acapella Cellini in the backroom at this house.
The house was big, with a large yard, and on a relatively busy street. With such a big house, with a big yard, and high noise floor outside, we expected to be able to play music at a reasonable high volume.
There were plenty of rooms here. And the price, while high, could have been much, much higher.
Not much of a view – but not too bad. We are starting to look at houses without views of the bay – we just aren’t seeing what we are looking for in houses-with-a-view right now.
Why didn’t we select this as our next home?
Well, for one, someone else had applied ahead of us [taking the choice out of our hands] :-/.
And, the busy-ish street… We lived in town in Boulder for a bit, when we 1st got the big Acapella Triolon speakers [and met Kevin for the first time – looking for a record cleaner I think], and THAT was on a busy street. Never could open the window because the noise was so bad [a busy street where the speed limit was around 45 mph]. This was nowhere near that bad, here, but still, we have some hesitancy about moving this place for that reason.
Still – it was a nice place…
The last house (California VII) strikes me as the best thus far. It seems as if you have your priorities straight which is to be expected. Good luck and best wishes.
I spent the past weekend with Ed Meitner and had a great time. The EMM Labs MTRX amps are sounding better all the time as Ed tweaks the boards and the TX2/DA2 combination is absolutely stunning, a rather dramatic improvement over the latest XDS1.
Hi Fred,
Yes, here we had this ‘finally a place to put everything!’ feeling. But the first applicant was approved and we had to move on.
Ed travelling down to Texas from Canada…. in the summer? He must really like you 🙂
Take care,
-Mike (& Neli)
Ed has now made two trips to Houston, the first involved substitution of a new input board in the amp (no changes to the circuit, just a tweaking of the parts values) and the second a further tweak to the amps (in this case to the circuit that provides the power to the input stage) and installation of the TX2/DA2. In both cases, he was accompanied by Shahin and both times, Ed enjoyed himself and was extremely entertaining. I think that Ed is never completely satisfied with anything that he designs but continues to try to improve them, sometimes incrementally and sometimes, rather profoundly. I suspect that the amps are now so different from the prototypes which you heard that you would have trouble recognizing them, but perhaps not.
In any event, good luck with the house hunting. Perhaps, once you have relocated and we get into the late fall when temperatures in Texas are more moderate, a visit would be in order. At that point I may have the Audio Note M10 Silver Preamp in the system.
He has just completed the prototypes of the new smaller amps (about 2/3 the power) and will be showing them at the Hong Kong Show in August.