That would be @Rubin. He was the host at the meet we had at True North Square.

If anyone is looking to splurge big on some excellent used speakers, Long & McQuade (Pembina) has some used Focal Trio11's at a crazy good deal: https://www.long-mcquade.com/instore_stock/705575/ Normal price $5.4k each, sale price $3.5k each, and sometimes you can haggle down a bit more. They...

Dude, you've missed a whole bunch of meetups! Glad to see you're still around though. What are you feeding the Australis with?

...(or preamp) turned down all the way before you turn on or off the amp. Complication 3: if your amp has a substantial turn-on (or turn-off) thump* even with the pot turned down. On speakers it may be an annoying pop, but on headphones there's greater potential for damage. *there are several...

Transformer couple tube amps specifically need a load connected when they are turned on. The reason being that if you don't, there's sort of a magical magnetic feedback loop that will amplify itself and damage the amp because there's nothing there to dissipate energy. Having a load (speakers or...

...will alter the corresponding voltage received at those frequencies. Usually it isn't a drastic change, and whether it will be easily audible... *shrug*. Some even prefer it because most often the impedance peak comes in the midbass and a bit of extra oomph there is usually easy on the ears...

I mean... it's all fun and good to experiment, but a banana to XLR4 adapter is literally $20 off ebay. Drop some cheap 8ohm resistors across the binding posts and you're pretty much ready to go at a twentieth the price (heck the resistors aren't even strictly necessary as long as you're careful...

I just noticed this part... why are you choosing to use this amp on headphones then??? You don't appear to be using low sensitivity planars which is about the only good use case for this type of amp. You're slapping the converter box into the mix which is going to introduce some impedance...

@harris4crna I'm guessing you mean this thing: https://www.zynsonix.com/Speaker-Amp-to-Headphone-Converter-Box-Bypass_p_54.html As my usual advice goes, only ever get the version with the 4-pin XLR output and never buy the one with the 1/4" jack even if you know your amplifier has a shared...

Merry Christmas ya filthy animals! Did anyone get new audio toys?

He's running some hifimans, so he may be interested. I'll drop you a text.

Anyone here got an entry level headamp they want to offload? A coworker of mine is looking to dip his toes into the fray and has a budget of roughly $300.

It was great to see everyone! We had @Progisus @Viper2005 @ecwl @rifi @Rubin and myself.

We've got myself, @ecwl, @Viper2005, @Progisus and @rifi A maybe with @Beefy, @Rubin Sometimes a wildcare like @Velomane shows up, but he's usually working overtime near the holidays. So that's 5-7 people for a decent showing.

Not Winnipeg specifically, but yes ginger beef is a Chinese-Canadian thing: https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/fyi/2012/07/28/history-on-a-plate That said... I never actually order that dish. Truthfully I very rarely go out to eat Chinese except with my family. Some random suggestions...

Audio shops in town (alphabetically): Advance Electronics Altitudo Audio American HiFi Brian Reimer Audio Creative Audio Huh I never realized how they're all A B C's. For restaurants, we have lots... you gotta narrow down a category. Clementines is great for a brunch place. Asoyama is my...

La Pampa is an excellent choice! For anyone who doesn't have my (new-ish) address, please send me a text or PM.

Hey guys, since we'll be overlapping with dinnertime this Saturday, shall we coordinate for foodstuffs?

When we first started dating, she was using the stock tv speakers. I upgraded first to a Vifa Helsinki, then later the Copenhagen. Before we were engaged I snagged a Stockholm off ebay for cheap which we used until I recently upgraded to the KEFs. The first couple upgrades she could hear the...

I think the wise choice is letting her buy a dining room table before I try adding audio furniture into the mix...

The trick is to build a large enough line array to replace the entire cabinet! Gotta have my (half)wall of sound!

Y'know, for that price you could buy 4 or 5 pairs of the Q350 on clearance and build a line array on each side... :L3000: (it could even be a horizontal line array)

Ooh what other speakers did you get? Smallest balanced source I have is an RME Babyface Pro FS, though it'll need drivers.

I thought about it... but maybe when I set up a theatre in the basement. There's no place for components in the living room with our current setup. Correction: there's no place where I'll be allowed to set up components.

Holy cow dudes time moves so fast, just over a week to go before our meet! Anyone have new toys to share? Nothing on my end. I've been too busy with house renos and upgrades. Oh wait I did get new speakers. So did @Beefy lol.