Yesterday morning I went to at Dennis Murphy's house to load up all the speakers (2 BMR Towers and 2 BMR Monitors) and other gear he wanted for the
Capital Audiofest. We got nearly all of it in our two cars. The two large cartons, each with a BMR Tower speaker, were quite large and heavy. I believe these were the same two speakers that shadyJ used in his review. They were too large to get into my aging Volvo S70 sedan, but we slid them into Dennis's VW Golf hatchback – the hatch door just barely closed. All the rest of the stuff went in my car.
We then drove to the Twinbrook Hilton hotel in Rockville, MD, looking like we had just robbed a Best Buy store. Outside the hotel we saw lot's of trucks and trailers unloading their audio gear for the show. I was glad to see Jim Salk and his wife Mary among them.
At the hotel, room 306 is small, but we got everything in. At that point, I had to leave. Later in the afternoon Dennis's business partner, Ken showed up to help shove things around until they had reasonable set up. Ken took photos and posted them at AVS:
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Of interest is the small and very light weight
Hypex NC400 monoblock amps which will be used in the show. One of them is the small black box with the blue LED sitting above Dennis's old CD player. I don't know where the other one is. Some of the other gear allows Dennis to instantly switch between the BMR Towers and Monitors while playing at the same volume.
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I'll go there tomorrow to see the whole show, and I'll bring my camera.