Anticafé looks neat!   My Stax and amps are away with friends, but I have a scary prototype of a new amp on a plank of wood. I should have a proper, safer build ready in the next few weeks. :)    

Congrats, sounds like you got a pretty great setup there. :)

PrimeCables has some pretty OK ones and ships to Montreal metro station dépanneurs for free :) they stock monoprice stuff as well

Really super sorry, but it looks like I won't be able to head over to the station until 2:30ish, which means we'd be in Brossard by 3:15 or so. I'm guessing that's getting too late. :(   If you guys want to head over I can meet you there if the meet's still ongoing by then. Or maybe we could...

Maybe we could just set up our rigs in Lionel Groulx? :)   I could pick people up from Lionel Groulx, just not entirely sure when I'd be able to get there. If you guys wanna do that and 1:30-2:00 isn't too late, shoot me a pm and we can exchange numbers or whatever to figure out the rest.

Something came up last minute and I'm going to be a little tardy to the party-- probably going to make it closer to 1:30, if that's not too late. Happy to pick up other late people from Station Namur or Cote-des-Neiges.

Oh hey that's a good point-- all my DACs are S/PDIF only, and I have no laptop. I'll just bring the amps/cans and some cabling and use my phone as a source but everyone's welcome to use their on source on my stuff. I'll probably not bring the analog rig just because it's bulky-- it is working...

That's right next to me; I could pick you up. :)

I could probably make it either day with some funky amps and a pair of Stax or two :) Got a neat phono amp if anyone wants to try, but my table isn't working yet.

It's been a while! I'm interested as always. Got a prototype inverted triode amp and a few other projects that might be ready for show and tell, and a couple of finished amps.  

I'm still using a few HDCD DACs from the 90s. An Assemblage DAC-1.5 and DAC-2, and a Parasound 1600HD. They aren't as good as, say, a NAD M51 at its best, but they certainly hold their own for a fraction of the cost. Bits aren't really important for anything but digital controls, because the...

Cool, I'll give it a go! I already have a sense resistor to monitor plate current, I'll just move it closer to the socket. Thanks for the reply.

Hey Doug, I've seen you mention the stoppers in a few posts across the web. Grid stoppers are pretty routine, but I haven't seen much mention of plate stoppers elsewhere. Its the plate's capacitive coupling to the inputs more of an issue in high gm tubes, or is it something else entirely? How...

I'm always down :) Could also offer a ride to people who don't want to take their rigs on the bus. VincentC Mike_TNT Benjamin6264 JackTheRipper Kevin.T dleblanc343 PretrntiousFood

Late August isn't looking so great for me either, but I'm interested! We have another thread going here:   http://www.head-fi.org/t/719330/2014-montreal-head-fi-meet   I think it would be best if we found somewhere less expensive and more headphone-friendly than a restaurant, though. :)