[smial1966]

To all potential meet participants, please post in this thread to keep it visible in the `Recent Head-Fi.org Activity' list on the website frontpage, as this increases awareness and let's UK/European members know about the event.   
 
With far more choice nowadays when and where to attend events showcasing personal audio in the UK (as most regional shows now have a `head space' area) unless our forthcoming members meet demonstrates it's vibrancy by attaining a critical mass of say e.g. 200 attendees on the day, then I genuinely fear that future commercial sponsorship will not be forthcoming and that these meets - in their current guise - will sadly die out.  
 
What do you think?!? Are UK Head-Fi Members Meets doomed? Or is there a way for our amateur events to survive? 

 

[glassmonkey]

Forgot RHA gear!
 
That is a terrible crime on my part:
CL1
CL750
ma750
s500i
 
See you all soon! Tell all your friends and get them to post what they are bringing, no matter how meagre! Last time all I brought was the LH Labs GO1000, a DX50 and my HD600. The Cambridge meet was what really launched me into this hobby. I think it could be like that for attendees of the Milton Keynes meet.

 

[RHA Team]

  Forgot RHA gear!
 
That is a terrible crime on my part:
CL1
CL750
ma750
s500i
 
See you all soon! Tell all your friends and get them to post what they are bringing, no matter how meagre! Last time all I brought was the LH Labs GO1000, a DX50 and my HD600. The Cambridge meet was what really launched me into this hobby. I think it could be like that for attendees of the Milton Keynes meet.

 
I will just pretend you were saving the best till last  
 
On that note, I will have the full RHA range and available to demo as well.If anyone is super keen to try any of the products I am sure we can work something out in regards to letting them be tested in the quiet room and away from the RHA table for a proper listen.

 

[Takeanidea]

No get together of like minded headphone enthusiasts in the UK will die out! It will be interesting to see how this meet turns out ; I knnow on our personal expectations it will be a success because we will reforge friendships which are too little rekindled in this fast moving World of ours. What may be an issue is reaching that critical mass of 200+ attendees.
To those sat on the fence consider this - I went to a Sound & Vision Show at Bristol which was rammed on 6 floors and had all kinds of stuff and that was 2 weeks ago but......
 
They didn't have AKG K1000 Bass Heavy Headphones - the nly place in the UK this year you can listen to K1000s is at Milton Keynes
 

 
 
Nowhere else in the UK will the First Watt F6 50 Watts Per Channel Power Amp be on demo. Noone else on the planet has the modded version I have. Nowhere else can you listen to an AKG K1000 put through something as incredible as this
 

 

 

 

[glassmonkey]

  No get together of like minded headphone enthusiasts in the UK will die out! It will be interesting to see how this meet turns out ; I knnow on our personal expectations it will be a success because we will reforge friendships which are too little rekindled in this fast moving World of ours. What may be an issue is reaching that critical mass of 200+ attendees.
To those sat on the fence consider this - I went to a Sound & Vision Show at Bristol which was rammed on 6 floors and had all kinds of stuff and that was 2 weeks ago but......
 
They didn't have AKG K1000 Bass Heavy Headphones - the nly place in the UK this year you can listen to K1000s is at Milton Keynes
 

 
 
Nowhere else in the UK will the First Watt F6 50 Watts Per Channel Power Amp be on demo. Noone else on the planet has the modded version I have. Nowhere else can you listen to an AKG K1000 put through something as incredible as this
 

 

 

Damn straight, Trev! On a lesser scale, nobody has the collection of adaptors that I do (I'll add some pics later). I've got DAPs in multiple flavours of balanced. If you want to get your portable gear on, I'll have a source that makes it sound awesome and High End Headphones will have all the top rung stuff that I can't afford. Live vicariously. Get FROTHY!

I may even have the @EffectAudio / Empire Ears Arthur/Excalibur $3800 in ear that I'll soon be reviewing at the event. I'll cross my fingers that I still have it. There will be way more unique things than what I'll be bringing, but these local meets often have one-of-a-kind stuff.

 

[dill3000]

I'll be bringing my modded HE6's with the new HIFIMAN headband upgraded pads and cable.
 

 
Another HE6 fully modded with hardwired 16 core silver gold wire.   Pic also shows my hand built mini beast which I'll be bringing also.
 
 

 
I'll try and bring my main beast amp for driving my HE6 (both beast amps also sounds great with the HE1000s and the K1000s) - the first pic is with the panel opened, the second pic shows the beast with my hand built DAC
 
 

 

 
Also my HD800s and another amp.

 

[Tro95]

Milton Keynes, from what little I know,
Is a place with a dome full of snow,
Just a dot on a map,
It's probably a trap,
But in April, a venue I will go.

 

[glassmonkey]

  I'll be bringing my modded HE6's with the new HIFIMAN headband upgraded pads and cable.
 

 
Another HE6s fully modded with hardwired 16 core silver gold wire.   Pic also shows my hand built mini beast which I'll be bringing also.
 
 

 
I'll try and bring my main beast amp for driving my HE6 (both beast amps also sounds great with the HE1000s and the K1000s) - the first pic is with the panel opened, the second pic shows the beast with my hand built DAC
 
 

 

 
Also my HD800s and another amp.

Two modded HE-6s, two beasts, and a NEW AMP! This is cause for celebration!
 

 

[Tro95]

Two modded HE-6s, two beasts, and a NEW AMP! This is cause for celebration!

I'll be bringing some unmodded HE-6s too, which could prove to be a nice comparison. My only balanced cable is the stock one which has oxidised somewhat, though, so I'll be restricted to my silver poison SE cable.

 

[glassmonkey]

 

Two modded HE-6s, two beasts, and a NEW AMP! This is cause for celebration!

I'll be bringing some unmodded HE-6s too, which could prove to be a nice comparison. My only balanced cable is the stock one which has oxidised somewhat, though, so I'll be restricted to my silver poison SE cable.

@Takeanidea has a WyWires Red cable for his HE-6 in balanced, we can always roll that out.

 

[smial1966]

If everything goes according to plan I'll have this hand built beast on demo at the meet...





...just look at all that thermionic goodness.

A few specifications -

Power: 3.5w
Headphone impedance drive: 10 - 3K Ohm
Frequency response: 12 - 150K Hz
Double triode composite output in Circlotron configuration

 

[pedalhead]

If everything goes according to plan I'll have this hand built beast on demo at the meet...





...just look at all that thermionic goodness.

A few specifications -

Power: 3.5w
Headphone impedance drive: 10 - 3K Ohm
Frequency response: 12 - 150K Hz
Double triode composite output in Circlotron configuration

 
 
Holy smokes!!!  Is that....TWENTY tubes I can see

?  I would very much like to hear that one 

 

[pedalhead]

I can't compete with twenty tubes in a single amp, but as everyone else is getting their gear out, here are a couple of pieces I'll be bringing along...
 

 
DiDiT DAC212SE feeding a Wells Audio Enigma (modded by @dill3000 with an Elma 47-step attenuator).  On the left is a Gustard U12 feeding the dac some I2S goodness 

 

 

[smial1966]

Power Output 3,5 watt per channel

Dual Mono Power Supply

weight 35 Kg

Full Tubes Regulated Power Supply 12 Tubes ( 6 x channel)

2 ECC802S input/driver stage per channel

2 6CG7 double triode in triode composite Circlotron operating

Frequency Response 12 hz to 150 Khz

Output is in Current

Output impedance 10 Ohm to 3 Kohm

Holy smokes!!!  Is that....TWENTY tubes I can see :eek: ?  I would very much like to hear that one 

 

[glassmonkey]

Power Output 3,5 watt per channel

Dual Mono Power Supply

weight 35 Kg

Full Tubes Regulated Power Supply 12 Tubes ( 6 x channel)

2 ECC802S input/driver stage per channel

2 6CG7 double triode in triode composite Circlotron operating

Frequency Response 12 hz to 150 Khz

Output is in Current

Output impedance 10 Ohm to 3 Kohm

 

Holy smokes!!!  Is that....TWENTY tubes I can see

?  I would very much like to hear that one 

Schnikies! The tube cost alone of that must be eye-watering, and to think, they'll all have different replacement cycles.