That's really unfortunate, sorry to hear. I was quite interested in the Aeon Open as well. Yes. I intend on bringing NAD M51 > Schiit Mjolnir 1 > HE1000 and Turntable/Pre > ECP Torpedo > HD800.

Excellent, those two Audeze headphones happen to be the ones I'm most interested in at the moment. So I'm glad we have the opportunity to demo them. I've decided that I can be bothered lugging my turntable to the event (a Rega Planar 3, so nothing too special). It'll be set up with my HD800s...

Yes, I registered last night after the attendance cap was increased. I'm aware that parking directly outside the showroom is limited, can you suggest nearby alternatives?

I'll bring my HE1000, Mjolnir and NAD M51, possibly also my own (modified) HD800 and ECP Torpedo.

Thanks for letting me know about this, Alex. I am definitely intending on coming. I can bring: Hifiman HE1000 v1 Sennheiser HD800 and HD600 Fostex TH-X00 Schiit Mjolnir ECP Torpedo 1 NAD M51 And various digital sources. Is there any possibility of this happening on Saturday afternoon, say...

That Massdrop just had to show up hours after I paid for a ZMF Blackwood LTD.   Hopefully someone can bring the THX00 to a meet.

What's unfortunate is that I was deadly serious.   The LCD-4 is an interesting headphone with metal. It didn't blow me out of my shoes with metal like it did with other genres, but it's still exceptional. It was showing me parts of Tesseract's "Polaris" that I had never ever heard before. It's...

A few photos:           Also have to say that the hype surrounding the CMA800R + HD800 pairing is definitely warranted. Incredibly wide soundstage, very revealing yet still very engaging.

Thanks to all who came out. Hopefully we can make this a more regular thing with more notice next time. I can say without a doubt that the LCD-4 is the best headphone I've ever listened to, easily.

I'll have most interconnects covered I think including 3.5mm to RCA.   The only thing we'll be short on is trustworthy power boards so BYO please.

YGPM.   OK, everyone with the address has been PM'ed the new starting time of 1pm.   Once again for people just coming across this: mini-meet in Auckland Central today at 1pm. PM me for further details.

No trouble, we can kick off at 1pm if that suits better.

  With K812s even! My pricey cans only ever leave the house for meets.   On that note we can still accomodate a few more people for the meet today. Anyone can flick me a PM if interested.

Actually I've rung up and gotten permission to use the board room at my office, so we now have room for all your gear!   3pm should do. I'll have my lesser setup present - Audiolab M-DAC, Violectric V200 along with the HD800 and W3000ANV.   @Aiyah if you're keen I'll give you a PM with the...

  There's my place if numbers are going to be low. I can accomodate like 5 people max. Or BYO furniture (seriously).

The anticipation is real!   Is there any interest in my W3000ANV being present (to demo)?

Oh, you meant to purchase.   Are you bringing the Ether this Saturday?

More interested in Ether C myself.

In. Can bring my solid state gear and a HD800 for comparative purposes. And the V10.

  My understanding is that the ESS Sabre applies its own upsampling on output, but as far as any nastiness goes I can't tell. EDIT: ah, I'll have to recheck with the FiiO.

    My FiiO X3 can function as an OTG DAC and it does work. No USB Audio Player Pro needed, it just worked off Tidal.   Conversely my CEntrance DACPort Slim doesn't work, but that's because it needs a silly amount of USB power and really isn't intended for phones in the first place. Although...

Expert Infotech, parallel imported from Hong Kong. LG New Zealand are still dithering about selling the phone here and I didn't want to wait!   Will be putting the headphone output through its paces tonight. I've read about the app compatibility issues with the DAC but luckily I have Tidal.

Will trade you a demo of the new LG V10. I just got mine this morning.

Woohoo! Pen me in for that one.

Darn. Gutted I missed out on this as I'm considering delving back into IEMs.   Great photos and impressions so far! Might be worth starting a thread in the meet impressions section.