Where is this cluster?

[bfish]

Tha's a whopper for sure. I wonder how how much smaller a Danley equivalent would be?

I'm guessing about the same area as the 210 ring.

[Cal Weldon]

It wasn't hard to find. I could see in the other picture it said "Big Bertha" on the side of it, so I started Googling.

Me too but to no avail. No surprise though since GM and I did that little test and found what you google in one location does not give you the same in another.

[Audio_by_Goodwill]

Me too but to no avail. No surprise though since GM and I did that little test and found what you google in one location does give you the same in another.

I assume you meant does not. Google is set up to give local-ish links first. I assume it determines that through your IP address. Kentucky isn't exactly local to me, but I'm a lot closer than you are.

[tomt]

That would make an excellent chandelier.

one of a kind.

[Cal Weldon]

I assume you meant does not.

Thank you, post edited.

[Altec Best]

one of a kind.

Great Picture Tom ! From that picture (Big Bertha) looks tiny.Easily a 10,000 seat arena I would think.

[Audio_by_Goodwill]

Great Picture Tom ! From that picture (Big Bertha) looks tiny.Easily a 10,000 seat arena I would think.

Double that, plus some........ aparently it's the largest purpose built basketball arean in the US.

Rupp Arena - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Built in 76, which kind of surprises me given the parts list of the system....... I thought multi-cells were well on the way out by then. I was just a kid then, so my timeline or perception of things from that timeframe is often not accurate.

[cjrman]

This beast was assembled by a small (out of business) Lexington, KY company called Engineered Devices Company... aka EDCO. I actually worked there right out of high school... 2 years after Rupp Arena opened. They were located off of Old Frankfort Pike adjacent to the inner loop of New Circle Road between Old Frankfort Pike and Leestown Road. There is now some kind of Heating company there I believe. While I wasn't there when this sound system was originally put together, it was the biggest thing this company ever did and thus it was the talk of the place... probably until they closed and went out of business. The people who worked there always had a lot to say about it and it was their pride and joy. Here's what I remember them saying: It was designed by someone who did sound engineering for the Rolling Stones. It was built on the property of the small plant, and tested there. They tested it with "2001, A Space Odyssey" They talked about how the sound bounced off of the buildings on the other side of New Circle Road. They actually assembled it on a mobile crane. Since Old Frankfort Pike turns into Manchester Street... and Manchester Street basically dumps right into one of the Rupp Arena parking lots and side entrances, they transported it on the crane to the arena. I never could figure out how they would have got it under the railroad overpass on Manchester Street but, that's what they said anyway. It seems like I remember them saying it weighed something like 9000 lbs. I can't imagine that over the 36 years that it was in service that the original Altec drivers and amps weren't replaced. If my memory serves me right, it was powered with 14, 800 watt Altec amps which in 1976 was some pretty impressive power for a house sound system. Not long after Rupp Arena opened, I attended a concert there (Roy Clark, from Hee Haw) with my parents and siblings. they used "Big Bertha..." which was on a track and could roll down to one of the floor over the stage... and the sound was probably the most pristine, clear sound of any concert I ever heard in Rupp. I saw lots of rock shows there and all you could hear was echo. I'm kind of sad to see it go but 36 years is a pretty long run for a sound system.

[Panomaniac]

Thanks for bringing this post back up - I had forgotten about that giant cluster. Hope to get by to see and hear it some day. Amazing.
Just spent 3 days in Cameron Arena, which is the Duke basketball court. Much, much smaller and older. Built in 1940. Gawd, the sound is awful! The acoustics are some of the worst I've ever heard, just super live. The least little sounds goes everywhere and covers up all conversation. With a full crowd it can top 120dB, easy. Glenn Miller played a concert there in 1940, wonder that that sounded like?

Politics and bureaucracy play a big part in what gets installed. The system in Cameron isn't great, and it would need to be amazing to deal with the dreadful acoustics.

[tomt]

I'm kind of sad to see it go but 36 years is a pretty long run for a sound system.

so -

it's gonna go?


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looks like some crooks are going to ' leverage ' this facility -

http://www.kentucky.com/2012/02/01/2...ask-force.html