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Tim in Phoenix
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 11:17 pm Post subject: HT Meet at Tim's!!!!!! |
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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
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Oh very nice. So are you pumping 1080p to each projector? 
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Tim in Phoenix
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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Close to it
1280 x 1024 60fps. 1080p was not standard on my blender.
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Curt Palme
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Location: Langley, BC
TV/Projector: All of them!
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I guess I'm not coming cause I suck! 
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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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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Tim, nice Audio Research amp sitting in front of the projectors!!
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Tim in Phoenix
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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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cmjohnson
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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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How about a G90? 
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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Tim in Phoenix
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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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Tim in Phoenix
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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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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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Adeline19
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| 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 
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Tim in Phoenix
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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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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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jbltecnicspro
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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?
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