Does anyone really remember what CEDIA stands for without looking it up?
I mean:
“Consumer Electronics Design and Installation Association”?
For some reason I think a lot more installation is going on than design. But there does seem to be a lot of consuming, and so high-end audio does look at CEDIA with both Fear And Longing.
But if they called it:
“INstalling HOme Theater for fun and PROfit” or INHOTPRO
it would be a lot easier to remember.
Or not.
Its mostly a mental thing – and hardly anything to do with audio. I mean, if someone is crazy about audio = spends gazillion dollars and quintillion brain cycles on the stuff, they naturally have to be careful about the consideration of other possible hobbies.
Just because we are craxy does not mean we aren’t perfectly aware of how crazy obsessed passionate we are and cautious about getting any crazier by getting into the visual side of the entertainment event reproduction chain.
So, video is great and we are on the upgrade path, slow as it may seem to other real videoholics (we just got a Sony 26″ XBR LCD TV) – we are just NOT going to go nuts over the stuff.
There is only so much craziness to go around – craziness don’t grow on trees, ya know. [It has to be carefully cultivated and nurtured for years…:-]
Anyway, the mode here is to twiddle bits between autitions and get the show report infrastructure up and clicking:
[Yes, we KNOW the Hifiing logo is too big. I’m just tired with mucking with it]
Not sure if we are just going to do the dailies (aka episodes – cute huh?) with buckets of pix, or a real report. I guess there has to be a ‘Did it Suck or Not’ kind of summary so who knows…
Only the Shadow Knows For Sure… or
Only the Echo Knows For Sure.
The full pictorial of the HRS MXR equipment rack setup is at:
But it will be a little while until we add these latest pictures, we though some people might want to see this now.
The HRS MXR equipment rack without the top shelf
The special HRS MXR equipment rack turntable-platform-support rails.
Neli holding one of the special HRS MXR equipment rack turntable-platform-support rails. These ‘steel girder-like constructions’ weigh about 30lbs each.
The HRS MXR with one turntable-support rail installed. The rails just sit right on the two cups, one on each side of the rack. They slide down on them with a snugness which bespeaks engineering tolerances almost unheard of in our industry.
The HRS MXR with both turntable-support rails installed
View of the entire HRS MXR rack. Looking a little empty with just the Audio Aero Perstige CD / SACD player which is also serving as pre-amp in this system configuration.
The HRS MXR equipment rack with Brinkmann’s Balance turntable on its special HRS Isolation Base on the support rails we just installed.
Close up of how the feet of the special HRS platform for the Brinkmann sit in the troth which was formed by the top of the steel rails
