Hey guys-
Looking forward to the meet in a big way... I was pretty disappointed to have missed the last Boston meet.
Regarding gear, I was initially planning on pretty much stuffing the trunk of my car, but much of it is redundant, so I am rethinking this plan. I'll post a short list below of what I have and what I may bring. I do think I will bring my 650s, since they are cabled with Equinox, and it looks like we have another with stock and another with Zu... so sice to have some variety within the Senn camp.
I'm also thinking that I may focus mainly on taking some pics, and shooting the **** with many of you. Of course I want to listen to some of the gear, but this time around that may be secondary. I've only met a few of your before, and have spoken to some of you on the phone as well. It's nice to see a decent contingent from NH as well!
So if it has an asterisk, I'm planning to bring it. If someone really wants something else brought, I can accomodate, but there is also no point in having too much duplicate gear for the sake of having gear:
Senn 650s/Equinox*
AKG 701* (if they arrive in time)
Grado HF-1
Grado SR225
Senn 570
Senn PX100
Mapletree Ear Purist HD (see footnote**)
PPA/diamond buffer/ladder attenuator/silver wiring/637-627
Scary Millett on plywood/BG 'N' coupled/Sola linear PSU
META42/AD744s running off the comp pins/quad buffers/dual linear psu
mint cmoy built by F.A.Schmidt in Germany (TI chip)
NAD c541i with OPA627s, recapped and damped
Zen Micro/WMA@192
**Ear footnote: I know that Dave recently acquired essentially the same amp, so I was going to leave this home. Lloyd build Dave's, I built mine. I believe the only diff is that I wired mine with silver and spaghetti. But I'm wondering what tubes Dave will bring... maybe I could bring something different for comparison, so as to avoid rolling tubes on location. I have some JAN GE 5751, Sylvania 5751, Sovtek 12AX7, EH 12AX7, nos GE 12AX7.
Similarly for the Millett, I have some RCA, Sylvania, and Tung-Sol 12AE6a tubes. The amp has mostly Muse caps with Panasonic polypros, nonpolar BG 'N' coupling caps, runs at 28 volts, and has 0.98mA plate loading. Bias is at ~17.5 volts.
I will also bring some heavy extension cords, power strips, etc, and a digital camera. And a non-race-prepped, but nevertheless robust Saab 9-3 Aero with tweaked BSR software, custom intake, downpipe and exhaust
. And a fire extinguisher, just in case. Who knows how many candles Ray will have on his cake? I suppose Tyll could always help Ray blow out the fire.