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Old 04-20-2008, 02:16 PM
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Thanks for all the kid words, folks! I sure had fun. It was truly MY pleasure to be the host.

Couple other things:

> First and foremost, thanks so much to Cry Havoc for organizing the event -- I could not have done it without you Doug! And your enthusiasm for the Spurs was so infectious even my kids were watching the game!

> Sound-wise, Top Dog for me was Ray's balanced R-10's driven by his B-52. Playing Joanna Newsome, it was just heavenly. Honorable mention to Absorbine Sr's Zana Deux - I had heard it before, but it never ceases to impress. And Mike was playing Richard Thompson on it - the man has taste!

> I was a little surprised by the domination of headphones by Grado and Sennheiser at the meet. Really makes me feel like kind of an outlier, having not a single pair of either! Aura's custom Wenge-woodied 225's were REALLY pretty

> I added some captions to my pictures above.

It really was both seeing some folks again and meeting some new people. I'm really looking forward to the next meet!
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