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MMCX always has me feeling iffy but it depends on the individual connectors used. One thing I'd love to know is if they'll have an MMCX cable that doesn't have memory wire. And if they all come with memory wire, how tough is it to remove the sleeve?
Didn't play with the Campfire Audio iems today but talked to moedawg quite a bit today about them. Had some memory wire on them and thinks it would be fairly easy to take off the sleeve.
What's wrong with it?
Headband snapped. Warren offered a broke headband he-500 to me, shioriskine and moedawg. Me and Andre (shioriskine) both wanted it and couldn't figure who should get it. So Warren gave me the left and Andre the right and let us figure it out. We spent the next few hours debating joint custody if Andre could get it weekdays and I weekends. Settled on my giving the left cup to him and letting him try and fix it and we just trade it back and forth. Teamwork!~
T.H.E. Show today was a lot less uneventful than it was Saturday. Mostly was hanging out with people and checking out some uninteresting speaker systems. Didn't take many pictures anyway as I was mostly repeating some booths. Some new things, some neat things, some impressions.
He-400s pads, very velour.
New thing, JDS Element
My o2 for scale
O2 and x5 for scale
Usb in, rca in (I think), gain switch, power button, power cord in
So it is square with rounded edges, volume knob is is a circle. Tad daa~ But seriously it is a dac amp combo and I turned the volume knob to around 10-11 o'clock and that was plenty loud enough for me. Iems I was hovering around 9 o'clock with my noble 4. Sound was very nice and I enjoyed it a lot. So it is $350~ iirc. Dac is very similar to the dac in c5d and amp is very similar to the o2 and c5 in the Jds Labs guys words. It was very cool and minimalist desktop amp/dac, solid metal finish and smooth volume wheel. I liked it.
Shiny woo amps and the he-1000 in the special woo room.
Shiny abyss to the shiny woo monoblocks that was also going to a shiny sony home media player type of thing. I can at least now say I have heard a $22k audio setup. It sounded alright.
Great ad to demonstrate the audio market at the show. Aimed at 60 year old dudes about to die so go buy this thousands of dollars speaker. Brilliant ad.
Out of focus fiio x7 picture. It wasn't working or anything but an early model showing off a big touchscreen and on the bottom of the unit a replaceable amp system in the works or such. Don't remember everything he mentioned about it. Played with the x5 ii and then with the e12a with my x5. E12a is good with iems like it was magically designed for it or something magical like that. Also had the new renamed fiio amp dacs. The successor to the e07k and e6 with changed names and shapes. Didn't get good pictures of them.
Then spent the rest of the day at questyle with Andre and ended up inadvertently working there for several hours. Older QP1 model internals, slight changes since then on newer models. Heard some interesting stuff from questyle and talked to many people from questyle. The questyle QP1 and QP1r I listened probably many many times these 2 days on. Probably my favorite new dap now and really interested in getting one when they are ready in production.
The Shelby that was in the room during break down time. The owner drove it out the back doors and the whole room smelled like gasoline. It was very American and patriotic.
Hung out in the questyle room afterwards with Andre and moe. Limited time they were going to sell the show computers for people that were to buy one of the dac or amps. Think they are still doing the deal now.
But in the questyle room I talked to the developers and showed them my x5 with its custom firmware, showed then different case, ways to stack fiio daps with amps, my amps, general feedback and learning about the QP1 and QP1R. Nice dudes and we went to dinner afterwards with warren and mercer along with questyle. Fun times and fun event, I had fun. Event I rate fun out fun.
Probably going to go the San Francisco meet in July now as I am probably not going to be able to make it to CanJam London.
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