Hey guys. I'm not from Ottawa (although I was born there), but out of interest have been following your thread.
I'm 'charliex' from the GTA, and a few days ago attended yet another terrific meet where you can see pictures
here and
here.
It was a well attended meet and we were able to hear phones such as the HE-60, the HD-800, HD-600 and 650, T-1 and a range of dynamic cans.
My preferred are electrostatics and in addition to the Baby Orpheus we were able to here the SR-007 MK1 and MK2, Stax 404LE, the LNS and
even the rare low impedence SR-Lambda and gold edition SR-5. Orthodynamic phones were well represented with headphones such as
the LCD-2 r1 and r2, the HE-5 and HE-6 and others. And of course it was compulsory for all in attendance to don the legendary Jecklins for a picture.
If you get your first meet up and running here are a few suggestions:
* with only a half dozen attending you certainly won't need an arena as suggested, but would find that someone's home would likely be sufficient
* if you have any DIYers, its always nice to have a raffle for some small headphone related item such as cables, mini DACs and amps etc
* settle on a common source for listening, either laptops/memory sticks (computer audio) which is preferable or CD players (limited versatility)
* you'll need LOTS of outlets/extensions and power bars
*make up name tags with Head-Fi handles prominent
* be sure to have a photographer to snap lots of pics as we all love to see these posted
*assemble a participant list (Head-Fi handles) AND equipment list of what's being brought
Hope we can all be seeing your impressions soon - enjoy!\
Bryan (charliex)