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Circa 3 hours today, that's all it took. The fat lady can sing now!...
I wake up this morning, and as usual I am right there up and running checking AVS. Around my 4th cup of coffee, phone rings. It's Laurence again. For those who have not read, I spent the afternoon at his place yesterday checking his beautiful home theater, and having a ton of fun.
He asks me what my plans were for the day. I tell him none really. He goes: "I just got off the phone with Roger. How would you like to go visit?"
I was speechless!!! ...Roger, of course, is Roger Galvin, THE absolute, top G-90 guru!!! After I regain consciousness, I tell Larry that he'd find me dead before I turned him down on that one! As it turned out, I did have to go pick up a cousin of mine at the airport around 2pm, so of course I immediately made provisions to go pick her up...As in send someone else over there! I'm outta here! http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/biggrin.gif
Roger lives about 45 minutes from my place, or 25 from Larry's. Off we go to Roger's. We stop for a nice breakfast over in Miami Lakes' exclusive area (Don Shula town, as it is known...Don has his famous steakhouse and a hotel on site) , and we arrive with the anticipation and enthusiasm of two 8 year olds.
Roger greets us at the door. Larry introduces me to him and after chatting a couple of minutes, we head straight for his theater room, like three puppies who have been starving for a week head to their food bowls!
Of course all this foaming at the mouth is....because...Roger has THE most incredible G-90 setup in the planet at his place!!! Bar none,or so I'm told...
THE EVENT
Yes, it was an event to behold!...
Roger begins the demo by lowering the lights in his room to off. Next, at the press of a Pronto button, the most incredible, vivid, sharpest looking desktop pops up, that I've seen in my entire five years I'm in this hobby, and since the year and a half I've been messing with HTPCs. This thing had punch! This thing has PERFECT focus at all points of the screen. This thing was just plain unbelievable to witness! Both Larry and I are astonished...
Next, he pops a few DVDs in there, and proceeds with the demo. Gladiator never looked so good! The vibrancy of the colors, the deep inky blacks, the clarity in shadow details in the blacks, were a true sight to withhold. The fight scenes in the arena looked fabulous. Blood looked...like blood. Bright bloody red it was. The 3-dimensionality level was so "there" that I couldn't believe my eyes. It was as if you could reach out with your hand and touch the characters! It was HD resolution coming from a DVD. there were absolutely no color bleeds. Every contour line was sharply defined. It was truly something else.
Next, The Fifth Element. You can never get enough of Milla anyway http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/wink.gif The opening scene, with the kid in the desert, was absolutely deprived of any picture noise. This part has got a ton of video grain on the sky portion. It was magically gone! I could not believe my eyes how smooth some of the best scenes in this dvd looked. The scene where Leloo is created looks as vivid as I've never seen it. The resolution is breathtaking. Sure makes those thermal bandages shine! http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/wink.gif Very high quality manufacturing there, heh... The diva scene looked absolutely stunning. For those of you who read my "What I liked about Laurence's home theater" thread and can relate, the guy in the tuxedo..his lapel and the demarcation line have never looked this vivid. This is the best display of black level I've seen ever! The intricacy of the shadow detail in the whole black range, down to the absolute lowest of the scale, is something that borders the unbelievable. The colors on some other scenes on this dvd shone through so rich and punchy! There a scene in the ship, just before they're ready to board, where that stupid Chris Tucker (please someone shoot him alright...God!) wears that equally stupid hairdo, where he gets too up close and personal with the stewardess, where you can actually discern every little nuance on their faces. The detail here is astonishing. Also, the scene where Corbin is introduced to his hotel room, where you see the blue colored wall in the background...the blue looked so ******g BLUE!...It looked as if it were exploding, it was THAT massive! The famous reference scene where Leloo jumps off the cliff, was the icing on the cake! That shot of her face was so detailed, so incredibly sharp...I just have never seen anything like it!
Larry and I kept looking at each other with the same stared look on our faces of that of a couple of atheists who've just met up close and personal with God for a soul cleansing session http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/biggrin.gif
Next came Lost In Space. the intro scene was simply brilliant. The blacks were king here. Some of the battling scenes in space truly looked HDTV to my eyes and Larry's...
Next came some HD. The only thing that was playing was the demo off of Directv. We watched and watched...and watched... in amazing glory. I have never seen the depth of field that the G-90 is capable of displaying. The resolution and focus of this thing, when properly set, just defines the genre! I noted that with Dvd material, the detail was able to extend itself farther into the image than anything I had ever seen. With HD material, the detail was simply astonishing! It reached so far into the image, that it seemed as though there were a hole in the wall in Roger's room http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/biggrin.gif . You just felt so immersed into the picture. The 3-dimensionality of the image felt simply unreal to our eyes! WOW!!!
Lastly, Roger proceeded to give us a half hour lecture on the use of Avia, to showcase his incredible system. The different patterns showed served only to prove what our eyes had been marveling at. The various resolution fields showed a sharp, crispy, tight display all the way to the end of the scale. The 6.75 MHZ pattern never looked as defined. All the lines were clearly discernable. The intensity of the various shades of black were uniform across all the displayed patterns contained in anyone of the resolution pages. The zone Plate pattern was as clear and smooth as silk, There was no shimmering and no artifacting present in any of the patterns. The focus patterns showed a focus as uniformly distributed across the entire screen area as humanly possible...and then some. Convergence was absolutely dead on!....This was simply art at its best! Unbelievable stuff!!! I'm reminded of my beautiful picture at home, my gorgeously offset chips in my DILA, and how unbearable this is getting to my nerves. I am used to seeing things with a red line on one side and a green line on the other. The G-90 is so milky smooth, so porcelain smooth, so silky smooth, so film-like smooth. The edges are so defined. There is not a slight bleed to see anywhere.
Three hours had passed, and it was time to wrap up. We've had a very special three hours. An intensive three hours. My eyes were exhausted from having absorbed so much in so little time. My mind was aching from all the new information it had stored in such a short time frame. After all, the data the mind had been fed during all that time was probably 95% fresh. It was the equivalent shocker for the brain that the stomach gets after a ride through the tallest, fastest, most twisty, roller coaster ride. Simply overbearing!
Roger is truly a first rate individual! The knowledge he has mastered of his trade speaks very highly of him. His passionate, yet candid approach to this half art, half science is truly overwhelming. You can't help but be in total respect for an individual who is so into his work, yet finds the time to host a stranger like me in his home in the most gracious and gentleman-like form possible.
I want to thank Laurence for inviting me, and Roger for being such a super nice host!
As to the having seen the light remark? ...I think I'm gonna be in hibernation for the rest of this year. I'm just gonna find myself a little hole of a retreat, sit there through the winter, and wonder in amazement how foolish I have been in the past year of so to think I had it good with my G-11 DILA.
Cheers,
Luca
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PICTURES OF MY THEATER
albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=1659592&a=12715694&f=0
Circa 3 hours today, that's all it took. The fat lady can sing now!...
I wake up this morning, and as usual I am right there up and running checking AVS. Around my 4th cup of coffee, phone rings. It's Laurence again. For those who have not read, I spent the afternoon at his place yesterday checking his beautiful home theater, and having a ton of fun.
He asks me what my plans were for the day. I tell him none really. He goes: "I just got off the phone with Roger. How would you like to go visit?"
I was speechless!!! ...Roger, of course, is Roger Galvin, THE absolute, top G-90 guru!!! After I regain consciousness, I tell Larry that he'd find me dead before I turned him down on that one! As it turned out, I did have to go pick up a cousin of mine at the airport around 2pm, so of course I immediately made provisions to go pick her up...As in send someone else over there! I'm outta here! http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/biggrin.gif
Roger lives about 45 minutes from my place, or 25 from Larry's. Off we go to Roger's. We stop for a nice breakfast over in Miami Lakes' exclusive area (Don Shula town, as it is known...Don has his famous steakhouse and a hotel on site) , and we arrive with the anticipation and enthusiasm of two 8 year olds.
Roger greets us at the door. Larry introduces me to him and after chatting a couple of minutes, we head straight for his theater room, like three puppies who have been starving for a week head to their food bowls!
Of course all this foaming at the mouth is....because...Roger has THE most incredible G-90 setup in the planet at his place!!! Bar none,or so I'm told...
THE EVENT
Yes, it was an event to behold!...
Roger begins the demo by lowering the lights in his room to off. Next, at the press of a Pronto button, the most incredible, vivid, sharpest looking desktop pops up, that I've seen in my entire five years I'm in this hobby, and since the year and a half I've been messing with HTPCs. This thing had punch! This thing has PERFECT focus at all points of the screen. This thing was just plain unbelievable to witness! Both Larry and I are astonished...
Next, he pops a few DVDs in there, and proceeds with the demo. Gladiator never looked so good! The vibrancy of the colors, the deep inky blacks, the clarity in shadow details in the blacks, were a true sight to withhold. The fight scenes in the arena looked fabulous. Blood looked...like blood. Bright bloody red it was. The 3-dimensionality level was so "there" that I couldn't believe my eyes. It was as if you could reach out with your hand and touch the characters! It was HD resolution coming from a DVD. there were absolutely no color bleeds. Every contour line was sharply defined. It was truly something else.
Next, The Fifth Element. You can never get enough of Milla anyway http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/wink.gif The opening scene, with the kid in the desert, was absolutely deprived of any picture noise. This part has got a ton of video grain on the sky portion. It was magically gone! I could not believe my eyes how smooth some of the best scenes in this dvd looked. The scene where Leloo is created looks as vivid as I've never seen it. The resolution is breathtaking. Sure makes those thermal bandages shine! http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/wink.gif Very high quality manufacturing there, heh... The diva scene looked absolutely stunning. For those of you who read my "What I liked about Laurence's home theater" thread and can relate, the guy in the tuxedo..his lapel and the demarcation line have never looked this vivid. This is the best display of black level I've seen ever! The intricacy of the shadow detail in the whole black range, down to the absolute lowest of the scale, is something that borders the unbelievable. The colors on some other scenes on this dvd shone through so rich and punchy! There a scene in the ship, just before they're ready to board, where that stupid Chris Tucker (please someone shoot him alright...God!) wears that equally stupid hairdo, where he gets too up close and personal with the stewardess, where you can actually discern every little nuance on their faces. The detail here is astonishing. Also, the scene where Corbin is introduced to his hotel room, where you see the blue colored wall in the background...the blue looked so ******g BLUE!...It looked as if it were exploding, it was THAT massive! The famous reference scene where Leloo jumps off the cliff, was the icing on the cake! That shot of her face was so detailed, so incredibly sharp...I just have never seen anything like it!
Larry and I kept looking at each other with the same stared look on our faces of that of a couple of atheists who've just met up close and personal with God for a soul cleansing session http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/biggrin.gif
Next came Lost In Space. the intro scene was simply brilliant. The blacks were king here. Some of the battling scenes in space truly looked HDTV to my eyes and Larry's...
Next came some HD. The only thing that was playing was the demo off of Directv. We watched and watched...and watched... in amazing glory. I have never seen the depth of field that the G-90 is capable of displaying. The resolution and focus of this thing, when properly set, just defines the genre! I noted that with Dvd material, the detail was able to extend itself farther into the image than anything I had ever seen. With HD material, the detail was simply astonishing! It reached so far into the image, that it seemed as though there were a hole in the wall in Roger's room http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/biggrin.gif . You just felt so immersed into the picture. The 3-dimensionality of the image felt simply unreal to our eyes! WOW!!!
Lastly, Roger proceeded to give us a half hour lecture on the use of Avia, to showcase his incredible system. The different patterns showed served only to prove what our eyes had been marveling at. The various resolution fields showed a sharp, crispy, tight display all the way to the end of the scale. The 6.75 MHZ pattern never looked as defined. All the lines were clearly discernable. The intensity of the various shades of black were uniform across all the displayed patterns contained in anyone of the resolution pages. The zone Plate pattern was as clear and smooth as silk, There was no shimmering and no artifacting present in any of the patterns. The focus patterns showed a focus as uniformly distributed across the entire screen area as humanly possible...and then some. Convergence was absolutely dead on!....This was simply art at its best! Unbelievable stuff!!! I'm reminded of my beautiful picture at home, my gorgeously offset chips in my DILA, and how unbearable this is getting to my nerves. I am used to seeing things with a red line on one side and a green line on the other. The G-90 is so milky smooth, so porcelain smooth, so silky smooth, so film-like smooth. The edges are so defined. There is not a slight bleed to see anywhere.
Three hours had passed, and it was time to wrap up. We've had a very special three hours. An intensive three hours. My eyes were exhausted from having absorbed so much in so little time. My mind was aching from all the new information it had stored in such a short time frame. After all, the data the mind had been fed during all that time was probably 95% fresh. It was the equivalent shocker for the brain that the stomach gets after a ride through the tallest, fastest, most twisty, roller coaster ride. Simply overbearing!
Roger is truly a first rate individual! The knowledge he has mastered of his trade speaks very highly of him. His passionate, yet candid approach to this half art, half science is truly overwhelming. You can't help but be in total respect for an individual who is so into his work, yet finds the time to host a stranger like me in his home in the most gracious and gentleman-like form possible.
I want to thank Laurence for inviting me, and Roger for being such a super nice host!
As to the having seen the light remark? ...I think I'm gonna be in hibernation for the rest of this year. I'm just gonna find myself a little hole of a retreat, sit there through the winter, and wonder in amazement how foolish I have been in the past year of so to think I had it good with my G-11 DILA.
Cheers,
Luca
------------------
PICTURES OF MY THEATER
albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=1659592&a=12715694&f=0
