Portland area Head-Fi'ers meet 12/9/01

[Budgie]

(Bump) Any news? Still on the 8 of Dec?

 

[Neruda]

Actually, december 9 is the day now, since saturdays are too busy at the store. I'll send out some emails soon I guess to let the others know.

 

[kwkarth]

No dude, the 9th.

 

[Neruda]

heh, we posted at the exact same time...

hey budgie, do you know where to audition the Sony F1 in P-town?

 

[Budgie]

The 9th! No stinking way I can make the 9th!!!!..Thats the same day as my okay I am not serious. 9th it is. I have heard that the F1 is now a discontinued model, and good luck finding one. I was finally ready to buy F1's and I called around and didn't find a pair anywhere. Poof! No more F1's. Closest design I can find now are them nasty old K1000's, and who in their right mind would want those?? I figure I can just make a bracket and hang a pair of mini monitors' from my head and get the same effect. So, I have started building a bracket out of metal and I figure I am looking at several pounds of metal and wood to get some mini monitors to hang from my head, so I have joined a gym to build up my neck...well anyway, the 9th sounds good to me.

 

[Neruda]

hm, budgie's been smokin' something...what've you been smoking budgie? I want some!

Here's a place online that apparently stocks the F1 for a reasonable price:
http://shop.store.yahoo.com/avpronet/mdr-f1.html

and ebay's got one or two models up for grabs. Of course, the store I linked to may be out of stock or something, but I would imagine that the F1 is still out there if you want it bad enough (maybe if we're lucky they'll stick around like the V6). I'm not sure if I do or not...All I know is that I really want to try one out.

 

[Budgie]

I am with ya on that, Buddy. It is kinda an exspensive experiment, to buy phones you don't know if your gonna like.

Hey, can I bring my amp to the get together?

P.S.- I aint smoking nothing, I am this weird naturally!

 

[Neruda]

yeah, bring everything! I'll bring my JMT CHA47 amp with me, along with my K401's. Kevin will need two cars to carry all his stuff to the meet.

 

[ppl]

All this Pumping up the F1's have got me interested. i need another pair of cans, Like Not that i all-ready have too manny, But only one pair of open ones the SR-60's. The SR 60's are getting old and hammered. so while i was confused as to what i would get. HD-600 from jan? No wait a minit what is all the Hoopla about These F1's?Oh no the Sony army really has a hold on me Like 2 pair of there cans are not enough. Anyway the 9Th looks good to me. You mentioned Bringing Amps. Thats great. I was thinking of bringing one of mine Mated to the V6's or 7506 . Can someone Bring some F1's so i can Hear them. I would gess hear in eugene thay are not available but i havent checked. BTW no way am I paying $300 for them $200 ya $189 as per the Link Better.

 

[Budgie]

The F1's have been a kind of contraversial set of cans around this community. The sound has been described as bass shy, but to my ears that was not true. The bass was tight and well controlled and sounded very natural to me. I think some people presumed that the unusual design just had to be bass shy and that affected what they heard. The bass will not smack you in the head, like Grado's, but it sounded good to me.

The design was very comfortable and did not cause the overheated ears that I get with conventional cans.

All in all nice cans. (But it sucks to buy them without trying them first!) Maybe kwarth has a pair?

 

[Budgie]

I just ordered the F1's from Etronics ($179.00+ shipping). They should be here before Dec. 9, so I will bring them along.

http://www.etronics.com/product.asp?stk_code=sonmdrf1

 

[ppl]

Thanks: Ill bring just the portable amp for lon impedance cans with over 1 Amp of Output Currentout to drive the 12 ohm Impedance as thay never have Been Driven.

 

[kwkarth]

Cool! I'll be bringin' the SAC and probably the Creek too.

 

[Neruda]

budgie, you rule!

No, no, you're are totally kickass.

no, no, there are no words in the english language that are capable of describing your awesomeness. So I'm forced to make one up. Splediferistical. You are totally splendiferistical!

*ahem* as you can tell, I'm quite pleased that we'll have a set of F1's at the meet

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[Budgie]

ahhhh, shucks.

(does this mean I will look like a complete and total idiot if they don't get here on time? [this is presuming I don't allready look like a complete and total idiot])