Had a great fun today, thanks again for sharing your gears guys, and special thanks to Paul for organising Can Con 4 again this year. See you next year. 

wow, this thing is getting bigger and bigger! well done guys! i can't to try the different cans! I have a brand new hd650 that i bought and forgot a few years back. PM me if you like to pick it up cheap.   :D

Yeah, I'd love to see the tree again! and of course the Invicta :D

I should be available, and I would love to attend. It was such a great experience last year.    If I am going, I will bring along: Auralic Gemini 2000 T1, ATH-W1000x   The littledot was too much of an effort, lol 

Has anyone tried the Gemini yet? Just ordered from auralic direct. Can't wait!

thanks everyone x 3 for making it happen, and especially thanks to paul and vlad for their hard work! It was great to meet you all today!   looking forward for the next meet :)

Quote: hmmmm..... i think one major selling point of the TH900 is the red wine paint that comes from some exotic japanese supplier that apparently was founded in the 19th century? :D    Also update on gears, Little Dot managed to send me their latest asynchronous USB interface (XMOS...

wow, i saw Fostex TH900! 

don't know if it has been mentioned here, buydig is selling ATH-W1000x for $429. Cheaper than many 2nd hands here. I spent almost $400 to get a pair of 2nd hands from Japan!   http://www.buydig.com/shop/product.aspx?sku=ATHW1000X

Update on my gears: I sold my HD600 and instead getting the of HE500, I got a pair of Beyer T1. So the gears I will bring: Stello D100s + modded Little Dot MK 6 + Balanced T1.    I may also bring along a DIY PCM1794 DAC + DIY EMP/Mogan Jones + AT W1000x, depending on if AT is attending...

I will be there, yet to decide what to bring though!

is the venue easy to find parking around? 

oh well, i am now using my LD6 to drive beyerdynamic T1 exclusively, best stuff I have so far. It may not pair with other high Z cans well, but certainly synergizes with the T1.

even in china i know hifiman controls the price really really strictly. the dealers can only throw in a lot of freebies like headphone stands, balanced cable etc. to somehow discount the price abit but here is virtually no chance for a cheaper upfront price. 

as must as i enjoy the amp talk, i just don't think it is a good idea to discuss equipments in any way. lets keep it a deal thread.

lol, the $79 AD900 saga from buydig is such an ironic reminder that   "Beware: Too cheap = scam or fake."

Quote:   you can always get around that using agents. not a big deal. the problems is, they are gone!

wow, the AD900@79 was such an awesome deal

The idea of liquid glass is really really good. Tks a billion different types of tubes and the SS power section just there to faithfully reflects the characteristic of the input tubes. Wonder how it compares with the LD 6/8.

i have been waiting for a deal on HE500 for too long that i can't wait anymore, so i jumped on the T1 deal. :(

why not consider LD dac 3? what i like most of it is the IIS input so you can just get the LD UA_I for asynchronous usb interface.

Yeah, not bad at all. The <$1000 windows only lasted for a day or so, big tks for guys here sharing the tips :D

The T1 is back to $1199. For some reason amazon cancelled my $938 order from 3rd party seller citing technical error and got me to order form amazon @ $950. They offered free shipping to aus for the inconvenience so it worked out like $2 better off for me:D

i think the algorithm amazon employs is that it will set a "minimum" price, and start to gradually drop towards to that price, if someone buys in the meantime, it will either slow down the price drop or even to backwards. I have seen this behavior in quite a few instances. In some occasion, the...

Built myself a Optimized Morgan Jones Headphone Amp with feedback (earmax pro alike) recently, which is going to be my office rig, and spent the last few days auditing the amp. I dumped many goodies into it and precisely tuning the working voltages, It has dedicated low voltage transformer with...