Draygonn
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no table needed
C'mon to the show. I'll set 1/2 table for each of you. Bring the DAC too. I'm sure many people are interested. I know I am and hopefully I will be able to drop by your table.
Attending; bringing some cans that aren't on the list.
Sony MDR-F1
AKG K340
Sennheiser HD598
Beyerdynamic DT990 Vintage
Samson SR850
Fostex T50RP no mods
Yes, it definitely does that. Meets wound up costing me a fortune.
Hey, PJ! So you work in the audio business now? I hope you can make back some of that money meets cost you.
I live right next to Northridge now that I'm a student at CSUN.
If all goes well I will be attending. Will bring my HD800 with a balanced Locus Design Group Hyperion cable if anyone wants to try it out. Otherwise I'm coming just to socialize and check out some balanced amps for a new purchase....DNA Stratus and the likes.
Hey Mike! You're pretty close by.
Yep, and I'll see you there.
I noticed you're not using the Sonnet anymore. Do you still have it or did you replace it with the Woo?
I've never been to any of these lately (like in the last 15 years) and I barely missed the Santa Monica event last Spring. If there's still space under the soft limit, I'm there! Looking for a HifiMan HE-500 vs. Audeze LCD-2 comparo, with the proper amps.
Yeah, I replaced it with the K Works custom mods of the Hifiman EF5 and Woo WA6-SE. By the way, the Hifiman is a pretty low-end amp before the mod, but unbelievably dynamic and beautiful afterward. (The Woo WA6-SE is pretty special but the mod brought it to astounding life.
The EF5 is a hybrid amp that uses an FET output stage and [horrors!] a couple opamps, along with a 12AU7 tube input stage. The marketing brochure for the EF5 describes it as using a tube to lend euphonic character which is total B.S. I don't understand why exactly, but the design of the EF5 taken as a whole makes it a very dynamic amp with explosive PRaT, and after the mods it is not only a transparent amp free from coloration (euphonic or otherwise) but it has a slightly analytical character which is something I like. (As long as an amp has musicality, I actually like that it can have a sense of giving me an objective window into what the musicians were doing.)
I also replaced the AKG K601 which is a pretty low-end headphone with the Audeze LCD-2, which is a pretty high-end headphone, as you know. It took me a while to find a high-end headphone that didn't have some quirky signature sound-- that is, to my ears anyway, most of the high-end headphones have a stronger signature than the low-end ones, and it's a question of whether that signature agrees with me.
The LCD-2 is a bit dark, but both of my amps are a little on the bright side. Perfect match.
My system is all K-Works-modded from the CD transport all the way to the headphones. (Not only are the headphones recabled, but there are a couple of physical mods done by K Works). Can you tell I'm a fan of K Works? (it's a one-man company in New Jersey, a guy named Igor Kuznetsoff)
My system is not computer-based so I can only play CDs. I think it sounds better that way. Bring some CDs of your stuff if you want to hear it with your stuff. But I'll bring a variety of music too (jazz, rock, various vocals, classical).