After a successful test last night, the audio feed is extraordinarily good.  

As a reminder of events;  Friday (today) at noon the fest starts with a free-for-all where anyone can listen to anything they want, Decware gear or not.  

Saturday will focus on Decware gear only, and or it's compatibility with other gear - probably both.

New product that will be presented are the new Radials, RL-4 and RL-5 that replace all prior versions.  These will likely dominate the afternoon.  Saturday night I will be demoing the Zen Open Baffle Array that I've been writing about all year, that should be fun.

Sunday will wind down with another free-for-all day where anything goes.

The weather is perfect and the only thing that could make it any better around here is more sleep!

Steve

At some point yesterday, the firewire link to the mixer dropped and the audio feed defaulted to the camera microphone.  Sorry about that.  We have the audio feed coming from the mixer now and don't expect any further issues.

Steve

I put the link up on Head-Fi/

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f45/decware-zenfest-2008-a-369323/#post4819977

What was the name of those little brown floorstanding 2 ways at 8:40 pm? Thanks!

3 way with a ribbon?
You are playing them at 11:10 pm also?

Other than the goof up Friday night and Saturday morning when the audio feed reset itself to the camera microphones (junk) I was very impressed with how well the broadcast went!

My main concern when setting it up was of course the audio quality and whether or not it really could communicate the differences in sound between components.  I thought it did, but we have really high bandwidth internet connections being and internet business of sorts, so you'll have to tell me how well it accomplished this goal on your end.

If the response is good, I am considering doing it some more.  I could for example pair up gear on your request, explain it and demo it.

Details to be hashed out would include, best time of day, best day of week, pros and cons of doing it live vs. creating huge windows media files for download.

Sound interesting?

For next years broadcast I am considering a white board or possibly live narration when appropriate to make sure those viewing know what model amp and speakers are being listened to.

We sent out aprox 10 Gig of data which translates to over 8000 minutes of broadcast between 400 views averaging 15 minutes per view.  The total cost was lower than expected  :)

I would be curious to know how many people listened to it through decent to high quality headphones and how many listened to it by hooking it up to their stereos.  (I would rather not know how many people used their computer speakers )

Steve

I listened on my computer speakers



I was quite suprised how good the audio was.  I was getting a consistant 312Kb/sec feed(I'm on a 20MB/sec line).  

I've always wanted to attend, but never had enough time to do it.  

John C.  

I listened on and off on Saturday and Sunday through the DAC on my Xonar soundcard through a Hornet portable amp with Grado SR125 and it sound pretty good.

I was connected for about 4 hours Saturday night and for about 1 1/2 hours on Sunday ..... no problem through my DSL link.

My computer speakers are not the best or the worst in the world ..... but it was not hard to hear a difference between the speakers that were in use at the 'Fest .....

Thanks again Steve for making it possible for me to "attend" .....

Randy