Bay Area Meet (California) February 11th, 2012 INTEREST THREAD - Page 3  

Although it's pretty far out, I'm in.

CEE TEE

As I was browsing through your extensive event planning notes, I notice the entry for "MEMBER SUGGESTION BOX:" and the following came to mind:

As we all know, attempting to conduct equipment comparisons under show conditions can be quite challenging.  Harsh listening conditions, endless equipment variables, and in many cases unknown music, make serious equipment comparisons all but impossible.

I thought of a simple solution that might bring us one step closer to making an apples-to-apples comparison when auditioning equipment at future Bay Area meets.  The idea is for "us" - all Bay Area attendees -  to come up with an agreed upon short playlist (maybe 12-15 songs) of commercially available music which then could be made available to those auditioning gear at the meet.  I'm not suggesting "swapping" music, only having the music available for listening if your setup can accommodate playback.  If everyone showing gear at the meet could make this playlist available, this change would eliminate one variable from an often complex chain of variables.  With a single common playlist, we could listen to the same music across all gear.

So the question is...
Is there any interest, by those showing equipment at the upcoming meet - vendors or attendees, around making a short agreed upon playlist of lossless reference recordings available to those auditioning equipment?  (maybe we can call it the BAG HIT LIST???, for Bay Area Group... or not )

I welcome everyone's thoughts on this topic.

Cheers
 

very interested! i missed my chance to attend the 2011 meet.

I should be able to make a Feb meet. Probably just for Saturday though.

Hopefully I'll have a new amp for the Jades by then too.

I don't have any impressive gear, as I've just joined head-fi the week after the 2011 meet, but I'd love to attend. It would be good to meet some of you and listen to some higher end systems so I'll have a better idea of where to invest my money. 

Although my gear isn't too impressive, I can help with set up during the meet so I'd be contributing in some way. 

It's a shame I joined head-fi a week late. I work literally next door to the Max's that you guys had happy hour (our buildings share the same parking lot). 

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Originally Posted by Questhate 

 

Although my gear isn't too impressive [/snip]

Your gear is fine!  In fact, you may want to bring your cans with you; there will be stuff to plug them into.

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Originally Posted by Lurkumaural 

Your gear is fine!  In fact, you may want to bring your cans with you; there will be stuff to plug them into.

 

Ahh, yes. I didn't even think of that. 

MEMBER SUGGESTION BOX:

I liked the multiple rooms format, but take this another step. Designate quiet rooms (put up big signs "QUIET ZONE"), especially for the higher-end gear, and other rooms dedicated for vendors (where there may be a lot of Q&A) and IEMs, etc.

I'm interested in going even though I have any interesting gear. lol.

Would be lots of fun to checkout.

I would love to be at the event in February...just let me know when.  As long as it doesn't take away my Valentine's Day, which is mid-week in 2012, I'm OK.  I will enjoy the opportunity to bring my Cavalli Audio Liquid Fire amp and whatever awesome cans I can muster.

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Originally Posted by purrin 

MEMBER SUGGESTION BOX:

 

I liked the multiple rooms format, but take this another step. Designate quiet rooms (put up big signs "QUIET ZONE"), especially for the higher-end gear, and other rooms dedicated for vendors (where there may be a lot of Q&A) and IEMs, etc.

 

 

 

YES. But my guess is that nearly everyone will want to be stationed in the Quiet Zones... But it's a great idea. The noise is certainly the biggest (only?) negative.

Oh yea... and how will it be enforced?