[pedalhead]

Other halves are very much welcome! Headfiers are generally a friendly bunch and happy to help people either new to the scene or with "other half" (ie not a lot) levels of interest. I'm sure my wife will be around some of the time checking out the wares (and she has virtually zero interest in headphones the rest of the time)

Precise start times will be confirmed at some point in the first thread post, but you can think in terms of a 9 to 5 kind of thing.

Hope to see you there

 

[pedalhead]

MEET SPONSOR UPDATE!
 

 
 
RHA have kindly offered to co-sponsor the meet once again! @RHA Iain is a great supporter of our meets, having already sponsored in 2015. He actually contacted me to help out with this one once he got wind of it!  RHA are probably familiar to most of us on HF, and imho their earphones have amongst the best priceerformance ratio around, with build quality to die for. They also have some interesting new products being release at IFA soon, including ceramic earphones and a new portable dac/amp with a great spec, all of which I'm sure you'll be able to demo at the meet. 
Thanks Iain!

 

[Takeanidea]

Good on yer Iain

 

[RHA Iain]

Hyped to be coming along again guys, especially as the show's five minutes from my home town!

 

[glassmonkey]

  Hyped to be coming along again guys, especially as the show's five minutes from my home town!

Hopefully you can have a couple more beers this time. You should know all the best places to raise a glass since it is 5 minutes from your home town. 

 

[Middy]

A silly thought...But one that has always perplexed me...We all have our favourite music... But what about one or 2 tracks we have for the meeting...
Our gold standard we get use to listening to before the meet....All can download the same file...As a comparative tool we can use as a reference against others set ups....
Not interested about genre but as a benchmark piece to compare...Our version of '@ the Milton Keynes "Porn Shop"'
A free or very cheap track... Flac...

Post a few... winner with the most votes.....

Any thoughts Gents..ladies....

 

[smial1966]

@Middy
 
Pretty decent idea actually as it'd be easy to upload a few tracks to dropbox and allow anyone to download them. That said, I like to subject folks listening to my equipment to a variety of obscure musical masterpieces, just to test their resolve and see whether they can take it. Just kidding!  
 
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A silly thought...But one that has always perplexed me...We all have our favourite music... But what about one or 2 tracks we have for the meeting...
Our gold standard we get use to listening to before the meet....All can download the same file...As a comparative tool we can use as a reference against others set ups....
Not interested about genre but as a benchmark piece to compare...Our version of '@ the Milton Keynes "Porn Shop"'
A free or very cheap track... Flac...

Post a few... winner with the most votes.....

Any thoughts Gents..ladies....

 

[Takeanidea]

Hotel California is always featured a d it convinced me to change my last first watt amp.
A standardised playlist? It sounds almost too efficient for us. I agree that its a good idea.
Pink Floyd has to be on it too

 

[voxie]

Greetings from The Emerald Isle.... I will be in Cardiff on said date, just wondering how far by car to Milton Keynes. Without Sat Nav!!

 

[CraftyClown]

Hotel California is always featured a d it convinced me to change my last first watt amp.
A standardised playlist? It sounds almost too efficient for us. I agree that its a good idea.
Pink Floyd has to be on it too

​Ok, so you've just massively weirded me out!
 
I was literally just posting a reply to say 'Hotel California' is the first test track I always use, as well as sections of 'Dark Side of the Moon'
 
SPOOKY! Are you watching me right now??

 
Well I guess that is immediately a double vote for 'Hotel California' and at least something from Pink Floyd. I have The Eagles track in DSD and multiple FLAC bitrates and the same for most Pink Floyd material (although only three of their albums are available on SACD) if we do decide on either of them and people want me to upload the tracks.

 

[technobear]

SPOOKY! Are you watching me right now??

Yes.

...and for goodness sake put some pants on! :rolleyes:

 

[CraftyClown]

Yes.

...and for goodness sake put some pants on!

​CraftyClown shrieks, turns, trips on his great big clown shoes and falls flat on his face as he tries to get out of the way of the webcam. "Mrs Clown!!! Where are my clothes???"

 

[Takeanidea]

It's time to get up!I'm on nights tonight and I'm up! As for demo tracks how about salena Jones audiophile collection? That sounds good through anything

 

[glassmonkey]

Great idea @Middy. For hires and free, 2L records has a bunch of excellent HighRes downloads for free here:
 
http://www.2l.no/hires/index.html?
 
The recordings tell provenance and are available all sorts of formats. Most of their recordings are recorded in DXD (PCM 24/352) and I think that is the format they sound best in. My experience has been that the fewer conversions done, the better.
 
I think Blagutten is my favourite track on the link. It has a fantastic sense of space.

 

[pedalhead]

Good idea @Middy. Whichever tracks we use would obviously need to be from the same master. @Glassmonkey's suggestion of the 2L tracks at least gets around that. Personally I'd like a bit of variety, including a rock track perhaps. Interesting suggestion, reckon we can probably get something sorted.