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Tim in Phoenix




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PostLink    Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 11:17 pm    Post subject: HT Meet at Tim's!!!!!! Reply with quote


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Ok Folks

Been a long time since we gathered here in Scottsdale for a little Blendzilla CRT gathering, so I am planning two meets this year; one in mid May, and another in late October.

So come out and see what two Marquee 9500s Edge-Blended can do.





























The May meet will be Friday the 12th and Saturday the 13th; 4pm to 11pm both days.

October is Friday the 27th and Saturday the 28th, 4pm to 11pm both days. Those electing to come in earlier can join us at the Luke Bryan concert on Thursday the 26th, at the Ak-Chin Pavilion.

Luke is a trip! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALV-QtDFpSw



We will hold blocks of rooms at nearby hotels, so do bring your spouse.


RSVP with your available dates to me:

ehometech8022@yahoo.com


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km987654




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TV/Projector: Barco BG809s


PostLink    Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 11:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh very nice. So are you pumping 1080p to each projector? Thumbs Up
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Tim in Phoenix




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PostLink    Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 11:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Close to it

1280 x 1024 60fps. 1080p was not standard on my blender.
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Curt Palme
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PostLink    Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 1:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I guess I'm not coming cause I suck! Razz

Just kidding! It's been 2-3 years since I've been down, high time I get back to Az.
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Tim in Phoenix




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PostLink    Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 1:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow

CM has graciously donated a new set of LUGs as our top door prize!!! LOL






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hal




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PostLink    Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 6:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tim, nice Audio Research amp sitting in front of the projectors!!
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Tim in Phoenix




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PostLink    Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 9:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Say Kal

You are exactly right; a VT130SE good for 110 w a channel; and also good for heating the place all winter!

I'll put up an equipment list in the next few days.





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PostLink    Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 11:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No I have not agreed to donate any tubes as door prizes!

However there may be some tubes on hand for sale.
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Tim in Phoenix




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PostLink    Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 12:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

How about a G90? Smile

I am leaning towards May 12 and 13 for the first meet. I go in for surgery around the 16th so I want to have the meet before the meat, so to speak.








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kal
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PostLink    Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 3:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Where do you sit Tim? Behind the projectors? How far back is that and how wide is the screen?

Those projectors look to take up the best seat(s) in the house! Have you thought about ceiling mounting?

Kal

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Tim in Phoenix




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PostLink    Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 3:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Say Kal

Room is seventeen feet across; a sofa is backed up to that wall. Just enough legroom! What's nice is the room is fifty feet wide all the way through the kitchen, so deep bass waves propagate very nicely off of two BagEnd Infra 18 subwoofers. The bass is explosive on big movie detonations.

I am not keen on putting these on the ceiling for myself; it may be the best solution for others.

The nice thing about edge blending is your throw formula ends up around .95, so it enables the largest screen in the smallest space. Also, with a 1.0 gain screen fabric there is 150 degrees of viewing angle, no color shift, no hotspotting.

The screen is a Stewart Luxus Deluxe, 107" wide, 1.92 aspect, with SnowMatte 1.0 fabric.

Light output is Obscene! Your eyes will iris down on any white background stuff. Contrast around 48 on projectors retubed ten years ago, they just loaf along. You don't get twice the light output like in a side stack, it is more like triple.




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PostLink    Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 3:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Would be really cool to see in person Tim!

I guess a huge screen / immersive experience isn't really what you're after since the screen's just under 9 feet wide (not overly large by today's standards) and the viewer's heads are probably 16 feet from it?

At that width I bet it's bright like you mention!

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Tim in Phoenix




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PostLink    Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 4:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Say Kal

CRT performance with deep grays and inky blacks and.....lamp-style light output because we are using 90% of the tube face, not 50 or 60 or 70%
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Tim in Phoenix




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PostLink    Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2017 3:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Guys

The two nearest nicer hotels are:

http://www.laquintaphoenixscottsdale.com

8888 E. Shea Blvd.

480 614 5300

From $119

And:

https://www.millenniumhotels.com/en/scottsdale/the-mccormick-scottsdale/

7401 N. Scottsdale Rd.

480 367 2409

From $159


A view of the McCormick from the porch of the golf club:




These are within four miles and I have seen both they are quite nice. The McCormick backs up to a lake and golf course.


Give me a few days to make room block arrangements for a possible savings.


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Tim in Phoenix




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PostLink    Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2017 12:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Guys

We are going international now:

https://www.avforums.com/threads/home-theater-meet-in-phoenix-arizona.2083676/




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Tim in Phoenix




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PostLink    Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2017 1:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Guys

Our friend Boilermaker had kind words after a visit in 2006:

http://www.avsforum.com/forum/16-crt-projectors/657283-blendzilla-review.html








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PostLink    Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2017 8:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tim in Phoenix wrote:
Say Kal

Room is seventeen feet across; a sofa is backed up to that wall. Just enough legroom! What's nice is the room is fifty feet wide all the way through the kitchen, checkout top anabolic steroids https://legalsteroids.best/ so deep bass waves propagate very nicely off of two BagEnd Infra 18 subwoofers. The bass is explosive on big movie detonations.

I am not keen on putting these on the ceiling for myself; it may be the best solution for others.

The nice thing about edge blending is your throw formula ends up around .95, so it enables the largest screen in the smallest space. Also, with a 1.0 gain screen fabric there is 150 degrees of viewing angle, no color shift, no hotspotting.

The screen is a Stewart Luxus Deluxe, 107" wide, 1.92 aspect, with SnowMatte 1.0 fabric.

Light output is Obscene! Your eyes will iris down on any white background stuff. Contrast around 48 on projectors retubed ten years ago, they just loaf along. You don't get twice the light output like in a side stack, it is more like triple.




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I had the same screen in my room Cool


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Tim in Phoenix




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PostLink    Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 12:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Guys

For the curious here is an equipment list:

Sources:

Panasonic DVD-A300 player for CDs

Audio Research Line Stage 3 preamp

Marchand electronic crossover (95hz and 3000 hz)

Quad of England 405 power amp; midrange

Quad of England 303 power amp; tweeters

Audio Research VT130SE tube power amp, not in use right now

BagEnd Infra 18 subwoofers 400 wrms (two)

Infinity Servo-Statik One speakers


and for the fun stuff:


iMac i3 for streaming Vudu and Sling TV (HDMI out)

Panasonic DMP-BD65 BluRay player

Brand X $30 terrestrial HD tuner

Moome MUX switcher

Analog Way DVX-8022 Edge Blend Processor

Marquee 9500LC Projectors (two) (not modded) with Hd10L lenses

Stewart Luxus Deluxe Screen, with 1.00 Snowmatte fabric 56 x 107 inches

BluRay Discs (about 90)

Cable/Satellite (none)


I hope to have the Analog Nextage processor here for the meet, as the DVX is discontinued now.


I hope to see some of you here in May!
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Tim in Phoenix




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PostLink    Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 1:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Okay

Some of you are wondering...."what the heck is Edge Blending?"

It is a technology not often seen outside of supercomputing sites. Edge blending lets a CRT projector run an optimal full raster height and most of the width. Each projector draws about sixty percent of the image width, so higher bandwidth is shown on the screen without demanding more of one projector. The left side fades into the right side with a feature called Contrast Modulation. Edge Blend processors also have switching, transcoding and scaling. As opposed to sidestacking, blending has the projectors shooting straight ahead with minimal geometry correction; H Keystone mostly. Convergence drift is slight to none.













Set up properly and with maximum use of phosphor on six tube faces, the results are awesome.

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PostLink    Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 2:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow - thanks for that. Very cool indeed! So you said your tubes are now ten years old? I assume then you've essentially doubled the life of them, haven't you? Smile
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