All right, guys, let's do this. If attending, post below
with your gear list and I'll add your name. Larry (wavoman) got us a huge place this year in the same area as last year (East Hanover) , so it's no-hold-barred, pack 'em in. Bring EVERYONE!
First, we need to lay down some rules.
THE RULES:
1) Shower the morning of the meet. Use shampoo. Shampoo twice if necessary. Wash hands after lunch (even bread, if oily, can get on your hands and onto someone's equipment)
2) Do not remove any items from somebody's rig and move them without their permission. Once you're finished, return them.
3) Do not attempt to swap tubes in anyone's rig without their surveillance. Hot-swapping of anything, especially tubes, is strongly discouraged and can permanently ruin certain pieces of equipment.
4) Again, don't hog an entire table. We don't have enough room for everyone to have their own, in fact, we don't even have enough room for everyone to have half of a table, so be conservative. Some people will have more stuff, some will have less. It'll work out, just be sensible. Last year we spent too much time on setup. I felt stupid, so I want to make this year more efficient. The sooner my ears have headphones on them, the better.
5) DO NOT EAT OR DRINK NEAR EXPENSIVE EQUIPMENT (and also, wash your hands after eating and before touching other equipment). My laptop is the only thing in my entire rig that is spillproof, and very few things at the meet will be!
THE VENUE:
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Originally Posted by wavoman
VENUE NEWS -- July 25th is the date, East Hanover is the place!
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Since we felt squeezed last year, I tried to find more space. Looks like the Ramada in East Hanover is the ticket.
Ramada Inn & Conference Center
It does not give me a lot of confidence that the link for "Meeting & Banquets" is a broken url (and poor English besides), but let's hope there are no other screw ups!
Anyway if we agree to be out by 5 p.m. sharp we can have two sections of the main ballroom (first floor, no lugging of gear!) which is 1900 square feet. Whoo Hooo! That's like 100 people. So we can really spread out. NYC Meets -- eat your heart out!
Our office admin booked this, I haven't been over there yet, but I hear it is re-modeled. I will go in a few weeks (I am away prior) and be sure we get enough tables.
There is a great sports bar on premise so we can drift there at 5 pm while others load their cars, then we have a bazillion places for dinner -- Macaroni Grill was last year's choice, I think it worked, and it is even closer to this hotel. But lots of other options.
Same as last year -- do a big jar, take room donations, and I will cover the rest (or give to charity any overage -- New Jersey Food Bank like last year, OK?).
They provide only water pitchers and mints, so hide coke and Snapple in your backpacks.
Contract will arrive by email next week and I will sign and pay by credit card unless you all stop me first.
Someone else will take care of name badges, etc. ?? (I am not an official organizer).
Like NYC, I will bring cut-to-size Velcro one-wrap for your PMP+AMP combo, plus some solid maple isolation blocks (without the Cardas logo they cost about 941% less than the audio catalog price). These can be had if you drop a donation in the jar -- one custom cut strap or one block per greenback dropped. It takes three blocks to support each piece of gear Mapleshade says, and who the hell wouldn't want that horse blanket pulled off their speakers? |
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Originally Posted by wavoman
VENUE UPDATE
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1. The Ramada has agreed that we can shrink down into one room at 5 pm and stay until 8 pm. So we start with Excelsior+Imperial and at 5 pm squeeze in to just Excelsior.
2. We are guaranteed 15 tables, 6 ft x 2 1/2 ft. They will try for 18, but no promises. Three chairs per table.
Life is good.
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ADDRESS:
Ramada
130 Route 10 West
East Hanover, NJ 07936
(973) 386-5622
THE TIMELINE:
8:00 - Set up, meet and greet, eat bagels and other junk food, attach nametags.
9:00(ish) - Hopefully we'll be set up and everyone can just go at it.
11:00-2:00 - lunch (on your own) - We're going to avoid eating lunch as a group because leaving thousands on dollars worth of gear alone is a terrible idea.
2:30-3:00 - Silent half hour of listening. Want to hear someone's open-headphone rig more closely? Now is the time! Just don't talk about it!
4:30 - Go crazy, break down half the room into the other half of the room
5:00 - Must have everything moved into the Excelsior room.
6:45 - Amps off, raffle!
7:00 - Break down
8:00 - Macaroni Grill! (or other establishment containing food)
THE ATTENDEES:
MD1032 (John)
wavoman (Larry)
immtbiker (Aaron)
El_Doug
jinp6301
Wenglish
grbwitt (George)
Listens2tubes
Benaiir
Benaiir - guest
grandenigma1
nikongod (Ari)
windowman
Nankai (Fang, Head-Direct)
vpivinylspinner
strid3r
jellojoe
bozebuttons
NoValidTitle (Jim)
WooAudio (Jack, Woo Audio)
syzygy8
ScottieB
rjoseph
Yikes
jaw2ek
jaw2ek - guest
clauswitz
soloz2
flashnolan
cat6man
applegd
Barry
JETC
88db
vcoheda
...and more...
(post to have your name added, and PM me to have it removed)
Possible attendees:
Aura
soloz2
THE GEAR LIST:
MD1032 (John)
Sources: EMU 0404 USB
Amps: Head-Direct EF1, TPG’s custom Meta42 portable
Headphones: Grado HF-1 (with flat pads), Grado HF-2 (if they get here)
wavoman (Larry)
Sources: Vintage Sony Discman w/optical out, Shanling CDP, Classic Bang & Olufsun CDP w/analog and S/PDIF out, Wadia digital iPod doc, iPods, Benchmark DAC, MoodLab DAC, Monarchy Up-Sampler DAC,
Amps: Head-Direct EF1, custom QES balanced 600-ohm dual amp (maybe)
Headphones: AKG K240DF (600 ohm), Beyerdynamic DT880, Beyerdynamic DT770, Sennheiser HD600, Grado GS1000, Grado HF-2 (if it gets here)
El_Doug
Sources: Oppo 970HD transport, Cambridge Audio DACMagic
Amps: Little Dot MK VI with ECC35 driver tubes,
Headphones: L3000, Sennheiser HD650 (balanced)
jinp6301
Sources:
Amps:
Headphones:
malldian (Matt)
Sources: Presonus CS
Amps: Stax SRD7
Headphones: Realistic Pro 30 (modded), Sextett EP, Fostex T50rp, Stax Lambda
Wenglish
Sources: PS Audio Digital Link 3
Amps: Koss E90, Meier HA2 MK2 SE
Headphones: Koss ESP950, ATH-W1000 (Fitz modded)
grbwitt (George)
Sources: Creative Zen, Edirol R-09, MCM/Beresford TC-7510, HeadRoom MicroDAC
Amps: one off EdDuda tube amp, HeadRoom Total Airhead
Headphones: AKG K701, Etymotic ER-4S
Listens2tubes
Sources: Sony D-EJ721 -> MCM/Beresford 7510 DAC, Technics SL-D1 modded (Grado Sonata)
Amps:
Headphones: Sennheiser HD600
Benaiir
Sources: HP G60-230US, iPod Touch 1st Gen
Amps: none
Headphones: Creative Aurvana Live NC, Sennheiser PX100, Shure E4, NuForce Icon NE-8, Audio-Technica ES7
grandenigma1
Sources:
Amps:
Headphones:
nikongod (Ari)
Sources: MCM/Beresford clone w/DIY mods, a cheap DVD player as transport
Amps: The Silver Ghost (a balanced OTL tube amp of nikongod design), a currently un-named single tube transformer coupled amp, the Melos SHA-gold eargasmatron
Headphones: Grado HF-2, old school RS-1 (balanced), Beyerdynamic DT-880/250, Senn HD-580 (balanced), Denon D5000 (balanced), Grado HP-2 (balanced), Grado RS-1 (balanced), Grado SR-60, Grado RS-60 (SR-60 drivers in an RS-1 shell, If they are done in time)
vpivinylspinner
Sources:
Amps: Toole Audio Balanced M^3
Headphones: HD-800 (balanced), HD-600 (balanced), Grado HF-2 (balanced), Grado HP-2 (balanced), AKG K-340 (balanced)
strid3r
Sources:
Amps:
Headphones:
jellojoe
Sources: Oberon CDT-1
Amps: Koss E/90, Stax SRM-1 MKII Rev A
Headphones: Koss ESP/950 w/ Stax adapter, Lambda Pro, Lambda normal, AKG K240 sextett EP, AKG K340
bozebuttons
Sources:
Amps:
Headphones:
NoValidTitle (Jim)
Sources: Macbook Pro, H140
Amps: iBasso D10
Headphones: Koss PortaPro
syzygy8
Sources:
Amps:
Headphones:
ScottieB
Sources:
Amps:
Headphones:
rjoseph
Sources:
Amps:
Headphones:
Yikes
Sources: Music Hall 25.2 DAC, Exemplar Audio DAC, Oppo HD970 Transport
Amps: Woo Audio GES (Loaded), Audio-Gd Phoenix
Headphones: HeAudio Jade Electrostatic Headphones, Denon AH-D7000
jaw2ek
Sources:
Amps:
Headphones:
clauswitz
Sources:
Amps:
Headphones:
soloz2
Sources: Marantz SA8001, modded Music Hall CD25, Oppo BDP-83, Ariston Audio RD11 model E
Amps: Millet Hybrid Maxed (maxed) av123 x-head, RSA Tomahawk, Musical Paradise MP-301 if it arrives in time
Headphones: Sennheiser HD580, AKG K271
flashnolan
Sources:
Amps:
Headphones:
cat6man
Sources:
Amps:
Headphones:
applegd
Sources:
Amps:
Headphones:
Barry
Sources:
Amps:
Headphones:
JETC
Sources:
Amps:
Headphones:
88db
Sources: Morrow HD19 cdp
Amps: Channel Islands Audio VHP-1, Channel Islands Audio VAC-1
Headphones: Sennheiser HD600
vcoheda
Sources: Meridian G08
Amps: RSA B52
Headphones: HD800 (balanced), HD650 (balanced)
OFFICIAL: Second Annual Northern NJ Meet 2009 - July 25
Count me in...grbwitt (George Witterschein)
