Here are the pics that I took.
I had a great time at this year's meet and my guests did as well. I'd like to give a big thanks to the hosts and would also like to thank everyone who attended for bringing such a large variety of equipment.
A few quick impressions:
I really enjoyed the sound of Kelly's LCD3F paired with the RWA Cassabria. I felt like many of the shortcomings I had always heard from the LCD2 had been conquered and the bass was ever so delightful. I would rate the 3F as my favorite Audeze headphone in terms of sound, but quite possibly the least comfortable
Alex's WA22 paired with the D7000 is always a pleasure to listen to. While it's not the most resolving and/or technically superb headphone, it doesn't fail to get my toes tapping along with the music. Just really a musical and involving pairing that makes you want to get up and start dancing.
The K1000 is also really impressive in just about every aspect. It's shocking that it can really generate that bass when it's that distance away from the ears.
Jay's Lyr with Alpha Primes was my first time hearing the Primes and I absolutely loved what I heard. He had warned me that it wasn't nearly as resolving as the LCD2F or the HD800 before I listened, but afterwards, my response was "so what? they still sound really good!" I actually prefer them to the LCD2F due to the fact that the mids are more forward sounding.
Jason had a pair of Sennheiser 530s that he wanted me to give an opinion on, and the opinion was a very positive one. It was a relatively warm headphone that was perfect for easy listening. Without any idea on the price of those old headphones, I'd rate them around the level of the HD600, which I consider to be one of the best sounding headphones for its time.
I was surprised that Nick's Magni & Modi with AKG 7xx combo really sounded as good as it did. We all often fall prey to expectation bias based on price (at least I know I'm usually unintentionally biased when it comes to being biased based on price), but it really reminded me a lot of how good the Valhalla 1 sounded as my first headphone amp that I ever purchased. It had an all-around very coherent sound that was never fatiguing and worked well with pretty much any genre that I tried.
Danny's Moth 2A3 has always sounded great to my ears and that opinion did not change this time around. I had heard the LCD-XC on a GS-X mk 2 at the 2014 Cornelius, NC meet, and much preferred what I was hearing out of the Moth this year. Granted the XC sounded fantastic out of the Moth, the star of the show for me was the HEK on the Moth amp. The RCA Single Plate 2A3s that were installed in the amp brought about a very satisfying presence to female vocals as well as made for a very emotional session. I think that the HEK's ability to control and texture baas is second to nothing I have ever heard.
Patrick's Stax setup single-handedly convinced my guests that an 'end-game' rig does in fact exist. It's the closest thing to what I'd consider 'being there' for headphones. I was fooled by some of his binaural recordings and actually felt like people in the room were generating some of the noises I was hearing from the headphones. I've read about many problems pertaining to the 009s sounding overly bright or strident, but with Patrick's BHSE, I never found this to be a problem.
Danny's HE-Audio Jade on the BHSE: I'd like to compare this to the Abyss headphones some day. This is the closest thing to audiophile bass-head cans that I think I have heard. It's frequency response is far from linear, but the bass that comes out of these things will rattle your brains.
I definitely heard more great stuff, but these are the few things that pop into mind at the moment.