From the seven replies so far, it is equal votes for: Saturday August 3 - noon Saturday August 3 - evening Sunday August 4 - noon So in the absence of anything else, let's select Saturday August 3 from 12-3pm.

I believe the doodle has "No" options if there are dates you want to mark down as definitely out.

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Alright, with no other commentary let's open this up to a poll. Please click the link below and indicate your availability. I've selected the long weekend, with either afternoon or evening options for Friday through Monday. https://doodle.com/meeting/participate/id/epXxg62e There are 7 options...

Shall we throw some potential dates around? Maybe the first weekend of August (I believe that's the long weekend). I'm available any day of that weekend so far.

Yeah we're overdue for one. Now that my new place is settled in I'm open to hosting (Lindenwoods). I've got a decent sized living room, or we can go old school and host it in the garage like we did in the original days lol.

Like... I get that it's his job as a salesman to push the sale, but c'mon that was blatantly taking advantage of elderly people in the pandemic who didn't know any better.

Years ago I had monoblock AHB2's for my HE-6, though I never did try a tube preamp. I was running them straight off my Prism Lyra dac (which has built-in volume control).

During the pandemic I was helping a church set up some of their sound and advising them on equipment for a bare bones streaming setup for their services. Something very very basic and simple for the octegenerians to use. Then the American Hifi guy came in and utterly oversold them on equipment...

Oh I didn't realize C Doms was the American Hifi guy. I kinda have mixed feelings about the guy who runs that place.

Did you manage to snag them for a deal?

That seems high. edit: In fact, looking at CAM you have some better options... PH25.2 for $285 from a dealer: https://www.canuckaudiomart.com/details/650085314-music-hall-audio-ph252/ PH2 for $200 https://www.canuckaudiomart.com/details/650035356-music-hall-ph2-headphone-amp/

Honestly, I've seen worse. At least this one is functional and the exposed ends are actually insulated. Some heat shrink to cover up the hot glue would have made it more presentable, but beyond that *shrug* it gets the job done.

Hey dudes, I'm in Halifax for a couple days. Anything I should pick up to bring home? Or anything I should check out while I'm here?

Lol, I got four of those and haven't even taken them out of the packaging yet. Then again, my office is still a disaster of moving boxes.

Fuzzy memory says... 6-7 ish years old? I got it refurbed a couple years ago as an off-lease machine. I don't remember the model, but it was this form factor: https://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/p/desktops/thinkcentre/m-series-tiny/thinkcentre-m910q/11tc1mt910q

I've had Lenovo mini PCs before that worked just fine. Come to think of it I might even have an old one lying around at my parent's place no longer being used if you're interested.

Unfortunately I haven't heard the V590 v2, so can't offer any thoughts there at all. In the past I've heard a couple of the older Violectrics (sorry I don't remember which ones) and from my fuzzy memory they all share a similar sound, so again my stance would be unless you really really love the...

I haven't heard the V222, but I have heard the V281, used to own the BHA-1 (both high and low gain versions), and currently still have the SPL Phonitor 2. I also used to have the Phonitor X with built in dac which I thought was a tiny bit better than the 2 but not enough to justify keeping it at...

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If you vacuum up enough dog hair you can probably build a bass trap in the corner :L3000:

Did you DIY the panels or buy some?

I have an EP 4-screw, but I've modded it into darkish territory mostly with damping material under the pads. A combination of felt and twaron "angel hair" fibres.

I haven't listened to them myself, but my wife thinks they are ok. They are lighter, but not as comfortable since they sit on ear as opposed to over ear. They isolate very well though, enough so that she thought they were noise cancelling at first.