Worth noting that the Ember was originally designed by a certain F.P. de Gruijter and then marketed by Garage1217, so Frans should get at least some credit for the design. I have another amp designed by him and it's served me extremely well over the past few years.

Not sure I can make it depending on how busy I am, but if there were to be an Orpheus confirmed to be in attendance... that might swing things.

Sorry if this has been already asked somewhere (I checked back ~5 pages) but is there anywhere to buy the E12 in the UK/Europe yet? Customs fees for orders from the US is something I'd rather not have to deal with right now. I haven't been following the development of this amp like I did with...

Norwich airport is probably your best bet, still some distance from King's Lynn though.

Quote: If you don't want it I'm sure that someone on here would love to have it donated to them. :p

Quote: Well that's a bugger then! Thanks for your kind offer but sadly I'll be moving to university in a few days and don't know what my future address will be and probably won't have much time to listen to amps for a few weeks anyway. Since the amp was at the meet, does anybody have any...

Quote: Was one of the missing amps the Sicphones silicon carbide amp? I remembered it being mentioned in the original thread and looked around for it at the meet but didn't see it anywhere. It's pretty distinctive looks-wise. I'm vaguely thinking about a getting the DIY kit from Kickstarter...

Quote: Memo to self: never, ever decide to give someone a lift to a train station in an unknown city in the dark with no kind of streetmap. We were lost in Cambridge for a bloody long time because of you. (Also only got home about the same time you did.)   Many thanks to Andy for...

Quote:   I tend to magically turn my CDs into FLAC files using a computer. If you're looking to (legally) get hold of FLAC files you'll have trouble outside of offbeat services like Bandcamp that offer a variety of formats or audiophile-specific services like HDTracks. For me, buying the...

As long as the X3 is less than the size of the iPhone 4, bigger than a handful of walnuts, has 3 separate headphone outs (including one with a tube stage, one with a class A solid-state amp and one with a 2.5mm socket, weighs exactly 98.6 grams, has asychronous USB, coax in and out, Toslink in...

I rarely find anything that I listen to above 3 on the volume knob on low gain. Even with the 150ohm RE-262s I find that I'm generally only on about 2.5. The only thing I have that needs more power is the 600ohm K240DF, and that's not really a fair comparison.   I've never heard Superluxes...

So is the situation now that we need to 'order' a t-shirt before the meet, or that you'll have some stock to hand? Either way, I suppose my expressing an interest in a medium wouldn't hurt...

I'd be perfectly willing to write some detailed impressions on it, though I'd need a reasonable amount of head-time and wouldn't want to be hogging it from any other people! It would also be good to make sure that the source/headphones can be changed easily so that people can get balanced...

Okay, my guest has confirmed that he'll be attending and would also like to come to the meal. So that's one extra.

I'm interested in the dining - though somewhat concerned about the lack of puddings on that menu.

Quote: I figured that since this is the internet I would excercise my right to exaggerate wildly. Point is, you've been exceptionally generous and I think that's bloody impressive on top of all the organisation you've been doing.

Well crikey, I go off on a train voyage across Europe, Siberia and Asia to Japan for one and a half months and I come back to find that you've all been given £5000 worth of prizes out of Andy's pocket whilst I've been gone. I've also had confirmation of my first choice university place today, so...

I quite like jr41's suggestions, though I personally am not bothered about the colour.

...I won something. I won something? Awesome. Thanks to Sennheiser for giving me something positive to help with the last few days. I knew building that phono preamp was a good idea...

I could probably give this one a reasonable guess but given that I've already won a tier 3 prize I'll abstain.

Quote:   I hope very much that it's a Fostex HP-A3... But I think those might be popular in the west - I haven't really been paying careful attention to recent amp/DAC trends. I still think that the HP-A3 is gorgeous though.

Quote:   Don't know about the US or other places but HMV in the UK seem to commonly have D2000s, HD 558 and similar entry-level hifi headphones in their demo section alongside the ubiquitous Beats and Skullcandy. Even before I came here I was aware that Denon were a respected audio brand.

Quote:   I've always wanted to try these so would be very grateful if you brought a set along.

Talking of hard-to-drive headphones (and stretching pocket money!) I now have a pair of 600ohm AKG K240DF I'll be bringing along.

Would the A-B test be blind or sighted? (ie whether you know which component is being used when or you don't.) That could have a fairly significant effect on results.