Colorado High-Fi 2009 Summer Meet 7-25-09 (UPDATED DATE/LOCATION!)

[HeadphoneAddict]

WE HAD A CHANGE IN DATE AND LOCATION AS OF 4/8/09 - THE ROOM RATES ARE ALSO LOWER THAN AT THE DOUBLETREE, EVEN WITHOUT A GROUP DISCOUNT.

Saturday, July 25, 2009
9 AM - 6 PM
Red Lion Denver Hotel
4040 Quebec Street, Denver, CO 80216
Rooms: Aspen 3A/3B

Tel: 303-321-6666
Fax: 303-355-7412
E-mail: denvercentralsales@redlion.com

Hotel Web site: RED LION DENVER CENTRAL

Map Hotels In Denver, CO - Map & Driving Directions - Hotel Accommodations in Colorado - Red Lion Hotels

All MOTs/vendors are welcome to attend (with the exception of Mikhail @ Singlepower by general consensus of attendees), please send me a PM if you are interested in coming.

ALL ARE WELCOME - Just post you are coming, you don't need PM to ask permission. No fees to attend but donations to pay for the room are appreciated. Just leave a post in this thread if you're coming and list any equipment you're bringing. Any voluntary cash donations on the day of the meet would be appreciated. Donations will cover the exhibit room, and anything extra will go back to HEAD-FI.

No plans for food on-site. The hotel has a restaurant and there are several restaurants down the street in the Quebec St shopping plaza.

UPDATE 7/9/09:

(1) Meet setup is at 8:30 AM and breakdown has to start at 6 PM. No one *needs* to arrive early for setup though unless they want to, and we'll have to clear the room by 7 PM. Volunteers will be helpful for breakdown.

(2) Everyone should bring enough power equipment for their own gear, and bring as much gear as you want to - there's plenty of space.

(3) Cash donations would be highly appreciated - although there's no entry fee, this event didn't exactly cost $0 to put together.

(4) An even bigger regional Head-Fi meet will be coming up on October 2-4 at the same location as this year's Rocky Mountain Audio Fest. Plan now to attend! More info here: http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f11/he...ficial-432237/

(5) The Colorado Summer Meets will continue next year! Neither date or location have been determined, so just keep an eye here in the Meets forum for the info early in 2010!

UPDATE 7/17/09:

See this new post PHOTOS OF HOTEL and Free Stuff corrections for photos of the approach to the hotel showing how easy it is to drive past the hotel and get stuck entering I-70 freeway.



MOT/Vendor List (in order of sign up):

1. Ray Samuels Audio is confirmed and will have the Apache, B-52, and new A-10 electrostatic amp!
2. Westone - Doug Leavy (p0wderh0und23).
3. Woo Audio - sending a WA22 prototype for us to play with (arrived).
4. Lawton Audio - sending an LA7000 for us to play with (woodied recabled dampened Denon D7000).
5. Nuforce Audio - sending UF-30 headphones, NE7M IEM and NE-8 IEM to give away - plus several demo UF-30.
6. TTVJ - Todd the Vinyl Junkie is supplying a demo TTVJ FET-A amp and Luxman P-200.

Attendee List (alphabetical):

1. Asr
2. barleyguy
3. bixby
4. Blutarsky
5. boomy3555
6. buddhashenglong
7. CspotJwalk
8. coredump
9. clarinetman
10. craiglester
11. crucial
12. Dankerz
13. DT770
14. donovansmith - cancelled
15. efektZ
16. Effusion
17. ericj - cancelled
18. greenman9
19. HeadphoneAddict
20. HeadFanatic (son of addict)
21. Johnnie
22. l1f35ux
23. Luminette
24. Mark Schifter
25. mcloskey
26. mlarn
27. Naamanf - if can travel from Kansas on that date - cancelled
28. nine
29. OakIris
30. obobskivich
31. paranoidandroid5150
32. plaidplatypus
33. p0wderh0und23
34. Sherwood
35. sisenor
36. Tyson
37. Vladco
38. wiatrob
39. xxSubzero569xx

Equipment List:

Headphones
- AKG K1000
- AKG K240DF
- AKG K240M
- AKG K271
- AKG K340
- AKG K701
- AKG K701 SAA Equinox balanced
- AKG K702
- Alessandro MS-1
- Alessandro MS-1 Headphile Paduak wood cups
- Alessandro MS2i
- Audio-Technica A700
- Audio-Technica AD900 - one stock, one re-cabled and dampened
- Audio-Technica AD2000 APS V3 balanced
- Audio-Technica ATH-ES7
- Audio-Technica ESW9
- Audio-Technica ESW10
- Beyer DT770 x2 (one is 80 ohm)
- Denon AH-D2000 modded x2
- Grado HF1 w/ APureSound V3
- Grado HF2 stock cable (x2)
- Grado HP1 w/ SAA Equinox balanced
- Grado PF-325i w/ Moon Audio Silver Dragon (HF-1 with PS-1 drivers and 325i metal cups)
- Grado PS-1000
- Grado RS1 (x2 - one with APS V3)
- He Audio Jade
- JVC DX1000
- Klipsch Image X10
- KOSS A/250
- Koss ESP950
- Koss Auditor ESP/10
- Senn HD485
- Senn HD580 Precision
- Sennheiser HD600 x3 (one with APS V3 4-pin, Fidelity Audio (of Canada) HD600/650 4-pin XLR cable)
- Sennheiser HD600 w/ APureSound V3 balanced x2
- Sennheiser HD650 x2 (one Stephan Audio Arts cable)
- Sennheiser HD800 (can be used SE or balanced)
- Sennheiser HE60
- Smeggy SFI woodies
- Sony ECR-500
- Sony MDR-SA5000
- Sony Qualia 010 Black Dragon balanced
- Stax OII MKI (x2)
- Stax OII MKII
- Stax SR-202
- Stax SR-003
- Stax SR-5NB gold edition
- Stax SR-Lambda (2)
- Stax SR-X MKIII
- Ultrasone Edition 9
- Ultrasone Proline 2500
- Westone 3
- Westone ES3X
- Yamaha Orthodynamic YH-1
- Yamaha Orthodynamic YH-3
- Yamaha Orthodynamic YH-100

Amps
- ALO Amphora
- AMB M^3
- AMB Mini^3
- Audio-gd Compass x 2 (one with Earth, Moon and Sun HDAMs)
- Cary amp (model TBA)
- CI Audio VHP-1/VAC-1
- DIY AMB M^3
- DIY Cavalli SOHA II High Current (wiatrob)
- DIY Cavalli Compact Tube Hybrid (wiatrob) upgraded botique version too.
- DIY Cavalli PM electrostatic amp prototype (wiatrob)
- Dark Voice 336i and 336SE
- Eddie Current ZDT (2)
- Headamp AE2
- Headamp Pico w/DAC
- Head-Direct EF2
- Headroom Balanced Desktop
- iBasso D2 Boa and D10
- Little Dot MKIII
- Meier 2MOVE
- Meier 3MOVE
- Meier Headsix
- Melos SHA Gold
- Nuforce Icon Desktop (not sure about this one)
- Nuforce Icon Mobile
- Qinpu A-3 (not sure about this one)
- RSA Predator
- RSA Mustang
- Samson Q5 (studio amp)
- Sennheiser HEV70
- Singlepower MPX3 SLAM Se
- Singlepower Supra
- Stax SRD-7 MKII
- Stax SRM-006t
- Travagans Green
- Travagans Red (not sure about this one)
- TTVJ Millett Hybrid
- Vivid Audiotech V1
- Woo Audio GES (maxed)
- Woo Audio WA6 (maxed)
- Woo Audio WA22 prototype

Sources
- AMB Gamma-1
- Apogee Duet
- Arcam FMJ CD36
- Bel Canto DAC3 (replacing wiatrob DACMagic)
- Blue Circle Thingee
- Cambridge Audio DacMagic (for sale by wiatrob, may be gone by meet)
- Creative Zen 16GB
- Creative Zen Vision M
- Denon transport
- DIY AMB y1 (wiatrob)
- Emotiva ERC-1 Reference CD Player
- Entech Number Cruncher 203.2
- Headamp Pico DAC-only (x2)
- Headroom Home DAC
- iBasso D10
- iMod w/ PVcap dock
- JVC XL-Z444 CD Player
- MHDT Paradisea 3 DAC
- Music Hall 25.2 CDP
- NAD C542 CD player
- North Star Design Sapphire (balanced for WA22)
- Oppo DV-980H
- PS Audio Digital Link III / MacBook
- PS Audio DLIII DAC with the Cullen Circuits stage 4 mods
- RWA iMod with portable Vcap dock
- Sony SPCH-1001 (PS1)
- Sony D-50
- Squeezebox 3 & Server
- Stello DA100 Signature / MacBook Pro

SIGN UP HERE FOR BEER AND PIZZA AT CRUCIAL'S HOUSE AFTER THE MEET:

1. HeadphoneAddict and son (depending on what RSA decides to do after the meet)
2.
3.

[plaidplatypus]

Is doubletree able to offer a special room rate for attendees?

[HeadphoneAddict]

Originally Posted by plaidplatypus

Is doubletree able to offer a special room rate for attendees?

We'll have to check and see about that. Maybe I'd split a room with you the night before so that I and my son don't have to drive up early in the AM, and then you could stay at my house that night before driving back.

[HeadphoneAddict]

Someone asked about a group rate and we can get one, but we need to report about how many rooms we'll need before we can get a firm offer for a discount rate. If we have at least 5 out-of-town people interested (the more the better), then we can approach them about the group rate. I don't have the standard rate here right now, but can update this post with it soon.

So, the more out-of-town interest there is, the better the chances for a group rate.

[plaidplatypus]

Snoring contest

[ecclesand]

Mmmmm...Doubletree cookies. My wife makes the trip over to that Doubletree every year to get me cookies for my birthday.

[Ray Samuels]

I am in for a room, Larry...
Thanks
Ray Samuels

[HeadphoneAddict]

So, two rooms so far?

@plaidplatypus - I have cpap so I wont snore (much), and I have IEM so I don't have to hear you. My 11 yr old son only talks in his sleep near wake up time

@Ray Samuels - noted as well

[obobskivich]

another colorado meet, and hopefully this time I won't be sick

I believe I should be free for this, but no idea what my work schedule may or may not do in the next month

ygpmz too

[craiglester]

I'll have to check my diary, but should be able to make it.

Not much to bring, I havent got much new this year.

Umm..

KOSS A/250, AKG K240DF K240M K340 Headphile Paduak Wood MS1 Westone 3 (possibly my K240 Ortho if I ever get the second driver installed - not a priority)

DV336i ( I believe you know the amp Larry
Squeezebox 3 & Server (I'll be running a wireless music server as I did last year - heads up, all the music is replaygained, and so seems quieter than you're used to)
Entech Number Cruncher 203.2
and maybe my Go Vibe if I can find it.

[HeadphoneAddict]

WE HAD A CHANGE IN DATE AND LOCATION AS OF 4/8/09 - I WILL PM EVERYONE ABOUT THE CHANGE! THE ROOM RATES ARE ALSO LOWER THAN AT THE DOUBLETREE, EVEN WITHOUT A GROUP DISCOUNT.

Saturday, July 25, 2009
9 AM - 6 PM
Red Lion Denver Hotel
4040 Quebec Street, Denver, CO 80216
Rooms: Aspen 3A/3B

Tel: 303-321-6666
Fax: 303-355-7412
E-mail: denvercentralsales@redlion.com

Hotel Web site: RED LION DENVER CENTRAL

Map Hotels In Denver, CO - Map & Driving Directions - Hotel Accommodations in Colorado - Red Lion Hotels

[craiglester]

Not to sound nitpicky.. but you're just bringing the ES3X to show off right seeing as no one will be able to listen to them but you Larry. heh

One of these days Powderhound will MSG me and I might get some impressions done for the door prize from the Meet 2 years ago heh one can dream eh

[HeadphoneAddict]

Originally Posted by craiglester

Not to sound nitpicky.. but you're just bringing the ES3X to show off right seeing as no one will be able to listen to them but you Larry. heh

One of these days Powderhound will MSG me and I might get some impressions done for the door prize from the Meet 2 years ago heh one can dream eh

Yeah, I and Blutarsky will just have our ES3X there for people to fondle. You should PM P0wderH0und23 and see when you can make an appointment for impressions. I may end up buying some UM3X before the meet just to review vs the W3, but I don't know yet for sure.

[sisenor]

Good chance I'll be there

[HeadphoneAddict]

Originally Posted by sisenor

Good chance I'll be there

I'm going to put you down as a yes!

Do you have any gear you would like to bring, or hope that someone will bring to listen to?