I'd like to donate to help cover the loss. 

I won;t be able to set this up any longer for next month.  A personal event has occurred and I need to take care of it...Im so sorry and was even ready to offer up my own home to use as a venue but this takes precedence.  Maybe once things have settled I will set up the next event.  otherwise...

Sorry, guys but I was on vacation.  I am still trying to secure a venue for this.

How does May 5th sound to everyone?  so far it seems that there are 15 of us.  Would you guys be willing to chip in 10-20 dollars for rent of a room?  I can't use my works common area.

Chris is still my favorite cable supplier...he made my lod and is now making me custom cables for my Hifiman HE4s.  I don't understand why people like pay 3-6 times the price for lesser cables from China.

Now I am having Chris_himself build me a cable for my Hifiman headphones.  I will create a review for those cables too...He always puts his personal touch on his work.

"4) You should have something to use something - such a program should be a two way street, and you should be willing to have your own gear floating around if you want to partake of other's."   I think this is a great point by radio_head.

Do you have link?  Come along where?

It seems like we already have about 10+ people with interest.   Start naming some dates that will work for you?  We can all see what we have in common.  I am free the weekend of March 31 through April.   I also picked up a set of westone umx3/rc.

I might possibly have lined up a place in Mira Mesa, my wife's office.  They have a decent sized common area with restrooms.   Or does anyone have suggestions for more places?  we could meet up at a library.    

I'm not sure.  i did order more tubes for it too.    

This is clearly almost a utopian idea...I'm just putting it out there.  I have had the pleasure of dealing with lots of really kind people on this website.  There are lots of people with positive feedback in the :for sale" forum.  If this were to start, we could even create a feedback system for...

I dont disagree with any of your points, in fact I agree with most of them.    Obviously this wouldn't be easy and you can always run into sour apples, but you are more than welcome to not participate if you have a problem with it.  Clearly if people damage stuff and don't claim...

i agree, but then you would need to wait until that meeting.  if people were willing to go off of trust, you could be trying new equipment weekly...but you would obviously need a good reputation to take part in this program.