PJABBER
100+ Head-Fier
Wow, what a fun time! This was my first local meet and I don't think we could have had a more friendly and knowledgeable group participate!
A lot of thanks go to everyone who came and brought such a wide range of their audio equipment to try out!
Not only that but we had some outstanding chocolate cake to keep our energy levels high!
The highlight of my own auditioning was getting to try out all of the Audeze headphones, they were the ones I kept coming back to try out with different source material.
Following Audeze, it was the Focal Utopia. A completely different approach to audio fidelity, but one that I think I could listen to for hours at a time.
I was highly impressed by the source equipment that I was introduced to at the meet. The range of tube and solid state devices offered a great variety of specifications and capabilities. Loved that some of these were hand made by attendees - next meet we should have a lecture on how some of these devices came to be and the design decisions that were made!
A very special thanks go to the Kentlands, Gaithersburg, MD community for allowing us to use the Carriage House as a venue for this meet. It was just right!
I will end here with a word of thanks to AGPtek for providing so many sample DAPs and earphones to try out and then to pass on to attendees for at-home testing. They were very generous and I hope we will see some straightforward reviews on Head-Fi soon!
BTW, I loaded all of the DAPS with the same wide range of FLAC files. They were a selection that I used to test the Rocker DAP, but some of the file formats will not work on the other DAPs. If you don't have one of the Rockers (which play the widest range of file formats, including DSD,) please don't forget to erase the sample files I loaded and try out your own FLAC and MP3 files to have an accurate assessment of each device.
Here are some photos taken when we were setting up for the event -
A lot of thanks go to everyone who came and brought such a wide range of their audio equipment to try out!
Not only that but we had some outstanding chocolate cake to keep our energy levels high!
The highlight of my own auditioning was getting to try out all of the Audeze headphones, they were the ones I kept coming back to try out with different source material.
Following Audeze, it was the Focal Utopia. A completely different approach to audio fidelity, but one that I think I could listen to for hours at a time.
I was highly impressed by the source equipment that I was introduced to at the meet. The range of tube and solid state devices offered a great variety of specifications and capabilities. Loved that some of these were hand made by attendees - next meet we should have a lecture on how some of these devices came to be and the design decisions that were made!
A very special thanks go to the Kentlands, Gaithersburg, MD community for allowing us to use the Carriage House as a venue for this meet. It was just right!
I will end here with a word of thanks to AGPtek for providing so many sample DAPs and earphones to try out and then to pass on to attendees for at-home testing. They were very generous and I hope we will see some straightforward reviews on Head-Fi soon!
BTW, I loaded all of the DAPS with the same wide range of FLAC files. They were a selection that I used to test the Rocker DAP, but some of the file formats will not work on the other DAPs. If you don't have one of the Rockers (which play the widest range of file formats, including DSD,) please don't forget to erase the sample files I loaded and try out your own FLAC and MP3 files to have an accurate assessment of each device.
Here are some photos taken when we were setting up for the event -
