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DeviousEnigma

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Hi everybody! We are at it again in the Bay (see the impressions from the last meet: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/bay-area-meet-july-28-2024.973144/. If you are interested in bringing your gear and getting a table spot, please join the discord (link below) and fill out the sign up sheet. I will follow up with you in the coming weeks to give you details on the event, etc. That being said, if you have headphones or IEMs (or even DAPs) that are portable, feel free to bring those with you and carry those around to test out all the cool stuff that will be there. So here are the details:

Important notes:
  1. If you are selected to bring your own setup, please arrive 1 hour before the event to set up. There will also be 1 hour after the event is over to break down and pack up.
  2. Gear list to come.
We are sponsored by Schiit Audio!!! Please thank them for helping us put together this meet and be able to enjoy this bigger venue and the space needed to bring more of us together! Also for sending us awesome gear.

Note: Please be conscious of your manners and hygiene. If there’s a line growing behind you or for the table, limit your listening time and come back when the table isn’t as packed. Let’s let everyone listen. Also keep in mind you will be demoing other people’s gear. Please be clean, wash up, don’t put products in your hair, clean your ears, etc. Be respectful. There’s a lot of cool gear here.

List of contributing manufacturers/companies (gear to be announced and potentially more to come):
  1. Schitt Audio: Sponsor and sending SchiitKit
  2. HIFI FOR ALL
  3. ETA Headphones
  4. NITSCH
  5. STAX
  6. ZMF (Zach and Bevin will be here!)
  7. Linsoul
  8. MIRPH Designs
  9. Donald North Audio
  10. Apos Audio
  11. Wells Audio
  12. DUNU
  13. Meze
  14. Orchard Audio
  15. Auribus Acoustics
  16. Enleum
  17. HEDD
  18. rhythmdevils audio
Location and Date/Time:
Saturday Feb 8, 2025
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM PST
Guildhouse
420 S 1st St
San Jose, CA 95113

Discord link for our Bay Area community:
https://discord.gg/CzuXVkE2Rx

Eventbrite/Tickets (Free) Link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hificon-february-8-2025-tickets-1114996206669?aff=oddtdtcreator

Gear List (TBD):
Manufacturers/Companies:
STAX:
ETA Headphones:
HIFI FOR ALL:
  • Headphones:
    • HFA Dahlia
  • DAC's:
    • Chord Hugo TT2
    • Holo Audio Spring 3 KTE
  • Amps:
    • DIY Aegis
    • Headamp CFA3
    • Flux Labs Mentor
ZMF:
  • Headphones:
    • Bokeh Open
    • Caldera Closed
    • Caldera Open
    • Atrium Open
    • Atrium Closed
  • Amps:
    • Aegis
    • NITSCH x ecp Audio DSHA-3FN
  • DACs:
    • Chord Hugo 2
    • Cayin DAC (unspecified)
  • Some DAPs as sources
  • IEMs:
    • Dark Matter Audio IEMs

Schiit: (Going to list these as the stacks I plan to put them in)
  • Gungnir 2 and Kara F (forkbeard will be available to test)
  • Modius and Midgard
  • Bifrost 2/64 and Lyr+
  • Bifrost 2/64 and Valhalla 3
  • Various headphones to accompany the above
Linsoul:
  • IEMs:
    • Thieaudio Valhalla
    • Thieaudio Divinity V16
    • Thieaudio Prestige LTD
    • Thieaudio Monarch MKIII
    • Thieaudio Oracle's II and III
    • Thieaudio Hype 2,4,and 10
    • Kiwi Ears Division
    • Kiwi Ears Punch
    • Kiwi Ears Orchestra Lite
    • Kiwi Ears Canta
    • Kiwi Ears Cadenza
    • Kiwi Ears Forteza
    • Kiwi Ears Quintet
    • Ziigaat Odyssey
    • Ziigaat x HBB Punch
    • Ziigaat Doscinco
    • Ziigaat Cincotres
    • Ziigaat Estrella
    • Ziigaat Arete
    • 7hz Timeless II
    • Mangird Tea Pro
  • Headphones:
    • Kiwi Ears Division
    • Kiwi Ears Ellipse
MIRPH Designs:
  • 2x MIRPH-1
NITSCH:
  • Amps:
    • NITSCH x ecp Audio DSHA-3FN
    • NITSCH x Schiit Pietus Maximus
    • NITSCH x Schiit Magni Piety
  • DACs:
    • Schiit Yggdrasil LiM
    • Schiit Bifrost 2 OG (MODDED)
    • Neko Audio D100 Mk I
  • Headphones:
    • ZMF Atrium Open (TBD)
    • Focal Elex
    • Focal Clear OG
    • Focal Utopia OG
    • HD600 Stock (Marble)
    • HD600 Stock New Production
    • JAR600 v1 New Production
    • HD6XX Stock
    • JAR6XX v1
    • HD800 modded to JAR800 v3
Donald North Audio:
  • Amps:
    • DNA Stellaris
    • DNA Supernaut
Apos Audio:
  • Headphones:
    • SJY Horizon Closed Carbon
    • Apos x Audio-Technica ATH-R70x Refine
  • IEMs:
    • Apos $75 IEM prototype
    • Meze Alba
    • Open Audio multiple IEMs
  • DACs/Amps:
    • xDuoo TA-32
    • Apos x Community Gremlin x 2
      • Tubes for Gremlin: Ray CORE, Ray SELECT, Mullard, Gold Lion
    • TOPPING DX9
    • TOPPING CENTAURUS R2R
    • FiiO K11 R2R
    • FiiO R7
  • DAPs:
    • FiiO M11
    • FiiO M17
  • Sources (other than DAPs):
    • Salad SA-XC turntable prototype
  • Other:
    • Magia cables
    • Salad Halo Headphone Stands x2

Wells Audio:
  • Amps:
    • V8 OTL
    • V8 Level III
    • Milo

DUNU:
  • Headphones:
    • Arashi
  • IEMs:
    • Glacier
    • Zen Pro
    • SA6EST
    • DK3001BD "Brain Dance"
    • Kima 2
    • TItan S2
  • Portable DACs:
    • DTC 480
    • DTC 800
Meze:
  • Headphones:
    • 105 AER
    • Empyrean II
  • IEMs:
    • Alba
Orchard Audio:
  • Amp:
    • Prototype Valencia
Auribus Acoustics:
  • Headphones:
    • Sierra Open
Enleum:
  • Amp:
    • HPA-23RM
HEDD: (headphones are tentative, they're trying to make it here in time)
  • Headphones:
    • HEDDphone TWO
    • HEDDphone TWO GT
rhythmdevils audio:
  • Headphones:
    • RD-6
From the community (TBD):
Pud: Various pud headphones from: https://pud.com

GiveYouFire: IEMs:
LETSHUOER Cadenza 12 2024, Softears Cerberus, 64 Audio U12t, QDC 8SE, Kiwi Ears Orchestra,
Prisma Audio Azul, LETSHUOER S15, Moondrop Dusk, Moondrop Blessing 2, Moondrop Kato, Tangzu Heyday,
DUNU SA6, SeeAudio Neko JP, SeeAudio Yume and Yume Midnight. Will also have DUNU gear (from above) at table.

Edition: DAC: Monarchy M24, Head amps: Pietus Max, Piety, Headphones: DCA Aeon Open X, ZMF Eikon

Thunder240: Headphones: Quad ERA-1, amp/DAC: Grace m9xx

MakeItWain:
IEMs: FiR Radon6, FatFreq x HBB Deuce, ZiiGaat x HBB Arcadia, Kiwi Ears x HBB Punch, Letshuoer S15,
Pula Anvil 114, Apevoix Grit, ZEMPIRE ZE51B.
Headphones: TBD
Source: Muse Hifi M5 Ultra. Can bring JDS Element IV if there's a desire

Questhate:
Vinyl: Technics 1200 --> Darlington MP7 --> Vali 3 --> ZMF Bokeh / Aeolus
Digital: Yggdrasil OG --> Mjolnir 3 --> Audeze LCD-X / Empyrean OG
Portable: Hiby R6 III --> Mega5est / Moondrop Dusk / Senn IE600

Xgatt86:
Headphones: Rosson Audio RAD-0, ZMF Verite Closed (Ironwood) -- undecided on ZMF
DAC: Schiit Bifrost 2
Amps: SPL Phonitor XE, Glenn OTL (4 tube)
Source: TBD, maybe laptop?

Yury Z.:
Isolation transformer, Activator and solid copper power cables.

Rice Spice:
Heaphones: Abyss Diana TC, ZMF Verite, Meze Classic 99
DAC: Topping D90 Discrete
Amps: Xi Broadway, custom Krell KSA 5 clone, Dynaco ST35, Syphonic Line RG3 clone
Source: Laptop most likely

S2kphile:
Headphones: Fiio FT1, FT1 Pro
Earbuds: VENTURE ELECTRONICS Zen SL, Zen 2.0, Zen 3.0, Zen 3.0FE, Zen LL, Zen Lite, Asura 3.0FE, Asura Pure White Shining, Monk 7th Plus, Monk Metapod Standard, Monk A1, Monk Studio, Monk Lite, Slim Metal Ti, Slim Metal Gold, \FRANQL Blue Moon, Panther, Caleum. LREY Hera, Raijin, ROSESELSA Distant Mountain, KOSS Porta Pro 2.0 Wireless
DAC/USB: VENTURE ELECTRONICS Devastator Dongle, Prime Copper DAC
Amps: APOS Gremlin with WE396A 5670 Tubes, RAY SAMUELS AUDIO Emmeline "The Hornet", MEIER AUDIO/Head-fi Corda Headsix, VENTURE ELECTRONICS RA2B-FE
Source: Sony NW-ZX707 DAP

sirhitsalot:
DACs: Ferrum Wandla GSE, SMSL RAW MDA-1
Amps: Ferrum Oor + Hypsos, SMSL RAW MDA-1, Woo Audio WA6

Photos from the prior events:
Jan 2023: https://photos.app.goo.gl/3vWJe6tNMhfXryaP8
Jan 2024: https://photos.app.goo.gl/dp7tyiqckBgheN41A

Giveaway:
We will be having a giveaway! HIFI FOR ALL (HFA) is donating t-shirts and we will be giving it away! The give away will be at 2:15 PM. Everyone who has a ticket for the event and comes in will have a chance to win but make sure you're around for the give away as only those still there will win. Also, if you are a volunteer or have a community table, you'll get double the chance! Don't forget to sign up!

Impressions:
Please post impressions in the thread here: https://www.head-fi.org/threads/bay-area-meet-february-8-2025-impressions-thread.975773/
 
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Dec 16, 2024 at 11:45 AM Post #2 of 27
I would love to hear RAAL SR1 headphones before making a purchase.

Will RAAL Requisite be attending?

Alternatively: is anyone bringing their RAAL SR1 headphones to the meet?

PS. Thank you for organizing, looking forward! :)
 
Dec 16, 2024 at 12:02 PM Post #3 of 27
I would love to hear RAAL SR1 headphones before making a purchase.

Will RAAL Requisite be attending?

Alternatively: is anyone bringing their RAAL SR1 headphones to the meet?

PS. Thank you for organizing, looking forward! :)
Hi, not this time, I’ll be inviting them back next time. I try to space it out so we don’t have the same big companies every 6 months but also because I can’t fit all of them in plus our community tables (which is the most important since this is a community meet). As for whether anyone is bringing their own SR1, I’m not sure anyone has one but you can ask here or on the discord.
 
Dec 16, 2024 at 12:12 PM Post #4 of 27
Hi, not this time, I’ll be inviting them back next time. I try to space it out so we don’t have the same big companies every 6 months but also because I can’t fit all of them in plus our community tables (which is the most important since this is a community meet). As for whether anyone is bringing their own SR1, I’m not sure anyone has one but you can ask here or on the discord.
I will ask community on the Discord.
Otherwise = 100% still coming to the meetup regardless.
See you there!
 
Dec 17, 2024 at 12:05 AM Post #7 of 27
Have fun everyone~! I came out last year but I'm too far north this year (nearly Vancouver) I'll definitely let my friend know she should stop by!
 
Jan 8, 2025 at 3:19 AM Post #10 of 27
Cool, I’m excited for this! My first meetup was the recent CanJam SoCal, and I’m looking forward to trying some more new things. I’m particularly interested in IEMs. I will bring my Tansio Mirai Shock, feel free to request a listen if you meet me.
 
Jan 15, 2025 at 2:59 AM Post #14 of 27
It will be awesome to talk to Zach and to try out the Boken Open since I believe I won't be acquiring mines before the event.
 

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