Photos up at http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/534243/west-michigan-meet/60#post_7306411 post #67    

It's time for the West Michigan Meet again.  Looking forward to hanging out with old friends and meeting new ones.  I'm sure we'll have an interesting assortment of gear.  Watch this post for details.  Only a winter storm warning will cause us to cancel or postpone the meet.   My employer...

No interest, no meet.   I'll have the Neko Audio D100 MK2 dac on loan and thought it would be nice for a local audition.     If there is interest we can meet in Grandville again.   For amps I can bring the Gilmore Lite and the Luxman P1. For comparison d/a converters on hand are the...

I am looking at a new source in another country.  The seller is offering to sell using this fiduciary service, Online-Yard-Sales.  I have never heard of the service and can find very little information online about it.   This can be viewed as very good or very bad depending on your point of...

Thanks for the loan of the TTVJ portable amp for the 2010 Grand Rapids Birthday Bash! We appreciate your support.

Apparently this place still has NOS (new old stock) AKG K501s for sale. Retail $199 CDN, $179 CDN after instant discount. 179.00 CAD = 168.207USD as of 1/27/10. I've bought from them before and have been satisfied with their service. I am not in any way affiliated with the seller, just...

SEE POST 10 FOR DETAILS Let's see if there is any interest for a meet in Grand Rapids MI on February 20, 2010? This happens to fall on my birthday. Location would be at my office in Grandville, MI which has easy access from the major highways. Plenty of restaurants & etc. Rivertown...

CANCELLED Where? Berends Hendricks Stuit Insurance 3055 44th St SW Grandville, MI 49418 We anticipate having gear loaned to us from one of our Head-fi vendors. To be announced later. Gear List (tenative): Sources: Apogee Duet Bel Canto DAC3 Lavry DA10 Opus 21...

My wife watches television. I listen to music. In the same room TV hooked to our surround system. Open headphones have no chance at all. My original solution was to get the JVC DX1000. A nice fon but a little heavy on the bass for my taste. Never got the sense they were spectacular at...

There have been so many threads lately of deals gone bad or scammers amongst us, that it make one think this is normal on Head-fi. I haven't found this to be true, even though I have had one less than satisfying experience. My most recent experience is a deal that should have never...

When? January 17, 2009 Where? Berends Hendricks Stuit Insurance 3055 44th St SW Grandville, MI 49418 Time? 12 Noon to 5:00 PM Doors open at 11:00am Gear? To follow on next post Directions? Send PM with your email address, starting place and directions will be sent to you Easy...

Blue Circle Audio I am looking ahead to 2009 and beginning to look at an external DAC. I just have not been able to find much information on the SBD (Shoe Box DAC). The review articles were more like marketing pieces from Blue Circle than reviews. Wondering if anyone here has one and can...

I have a confession. The DT880s are my least favorite headphone ... in my current stable of cans. But the reason I keep them is the synergy between them and the Meier Opera. I pulled them out last night, dusted them off and went into 5 hours of heavenly bliss ... or at least music heaven. I've...

I recall reading a review of the bel canto dac.3 where one reviewer stated that the sound stage was narrower and the bass rolled off when the computer was used as the source as opposed to a cdp. I just read a review of a blue circle dac where the author said the same thing. Didn't pull the bel...

Any interest in a meeting in west Michigan? I'm thinking of the Grand Rapids area and have space available in Grandville (SW side of Grand Rapids) not too far from I-196 or from US-131. I have never been to a meet but am willing to organize and plan it. Thinking ahead to January 17, 2009...

Little different twist on the paypal dispute threads that pop up here. Almost a month a ago I shipped a small item to a buyer in Canada. Because of the low cost the item was shipped first class mail which means no insurance and no tracking number for Canada. So I have proof that the item...

I have a problem. My wife loves watching TV with the volume turned up on our surround system (Denon receiver/Klipsch reference speakers). Since I don't watch much TV and my headphone setup is in the same room, I'm having a hard time competing with the surround system with open cans, short of...

I've enjoyed your posts and you finally reached Supremus status this year. Congrats and Happy Birthday!

OK, so I've read whatever material I can find here on head-fi as well as online, and I'm really no better informed than when I started. I talked to the IT guy in my office today (not really an audiophile, but like all IT guys, thinks he knows everything about everything) and asked him if USB...

Seems there just isn't much information available on the lowly USB connector (computer to DAC). I take this to mean that most consider one USB cord the same as any other. BUT this seems to defy the head-fi tradition of tweaking every link in one's system. We seem to have all kinds of opinion...

I started on computers programming in Fortran (some engineers will recognize that). I've lived through the various renditions of Windows up to and including Windows XP. I've been fortunate in that I have never suffered a major catastrophe nor had a machine brick on me ... until a week ago. I...

I've been researching and reading and looking for a HP between the AKG K501 and the Grado SR225. I love both cans but it seems like I have two wonderful extremes and I'm looking to fill the gap in the middle. I tried the Sennheiser HD-580s. Not the can for me, or at least not the can with my...

I have a business trip to Banff next week and have two free afternoons. Not alot of time to do much, but wonder if anyone has any suggestions. Anything that is a must see or I'll shoot myself later if I don't do it?

I didn't realize until tonight that tube amps and preamps were available for mobile use. That made me wonder ... if you have tube amps for your head phones are you a true believer, using a tube amp for your car audio as well? If not, what's stopping you?

Recently I've come to suspect that the Opera may not be enough amp to properly drive my AKG 501s. I seem to listen mostly from the DAC. They sound great but I always have this sense that I'm missing their true potential. Has any one else tried the Operal/K501 combo? What were your experiences?