[Ham Sandwich]

I'll be at both the Seattle Bottlehead meet and the Portland meet. This Portland meet is going to be fun. Lots of gear and new people. And I won't have to drive very far to get there.
 
Gear I'll bring:
Cavalli Liquid Fire
Cavalli Liquid Carbon (the little transportable solid state Cavalli amp)
Schiit Gumby DAC
 
Audeze LCD-2 r2, Massdrop/Fostex TH-X00, HD600, HD650, HE-560
 
Windows laptop as source with lots of music that I like
 
PonoPlayer and a balanced cable adapter for it

 

[grizzlybeast]

  I'll be at both the Seattle Bottlehead meet and the Portland meet. This Portland meet is going to be fun. Lots of gear and new people. And I won't have to drive very far to get there.
 
Gear I'll bring:
Cavalli Liquid Fire
Cavalli Liquid Carbon (the little transportable solid state Cavalli amp)
Schiit Gumby DAC
 
Audeze LCD-2 r2, Massdrop/Fostex TH-X00, HD600, HD650, HE-560
 
Windows laptop as source with lots of music that I like
 
PonoPlayer and a balanced cable adapter for it

I will see you at both. I almost pm'd you to see if I could ride up but wifey wants to go because she is really curious. Unfortunately I have to bring my big ol iMac up to Seattle because I don't have a laptop (never really needed one). The portland meet is going to be fun and I am really stoked that Bottlehead is coming down here as well. 

 

[grizzlybeast]

Kennerton is atleast sending the Vali!!!!! Odin may not be ready to ship by the time the meet starts.

The Vali is getting really good reports overseas

 

[nmatheis]

Nice @grizzlybeast!
 
Just got in the iBasso DX80 DAP and D14 Bushmaster Portable DAC/Amp today for the meet. Was expecting the DX80, but the D14 was a surprise. Thanks @Paul - iBasso!
 
Just found out I'll be getting those MEE P1 IEM people have been raving about. Can't wait to try those out!

 

[grizzlybeast]

  Nice @grizzlybeast!
 
Just got in the iBasso DX80 DAP and D14 Bushmaster Portable DAC/Amp today for the meet. Was expecting the DX80, but the D14 was a surprise. Thanks @Paul - iBasso!
 
Just found out I'll be getting those MEE P1 IEM people have been raving about. Can't wait to try those out!

Thats whats up! I will make it a point to try a lot of iems this time no doubt!

 

[Paul - iBasso]

  Nice @grizzlybeast!
 
Just got in the iBasso DX80 DAP and D14 Bushmaster Portable DAC/Amp today for the meet. Was expecting the DX80, but the D14 was a surprise. Thanks @Paul - iBasso!
 
Just found out I'll be getting those MEE P1 IEM people have been raving about. Can't wait to try those out!

You are welcome. It looks like it is going to be an exciting meet!

 

[BIG POPPA]

This is the rig that i do plan to bring:
 
HD700's
HD650's
Both have modded cables with external grounds and can have an Akiko stick hooked up
 
Singlepower MPX3 modded and gone through.
It is effing tweaked.
 
Hp Elitebook 8740W
running Jriver with uncompressed files
 
DAC to be named later
 
Sonarworks DSP
 
2 Schiit Wyrds
 
All the power cables and IC's I have made. Have a thing for that.
 
Magic Box
 
Synergistic Research QLS-6
 
Granite Audio Ground Zero
 
Assorted Akiko sticks
 
Assorted USB cables
 
My rig is smooth and dialed in. When Diana Krall is singing, she is sitting on my lap singing to me. Very intimate.
 
Will have gear to audition on your rigs.
 
Can answer questions and concerns about your gear.
 
Coming to PDX for coffee and doughnuts
 
Just kidding

 

[Soundsgoodtome]

^^ You and JJ are such tweakers!!

@johnjen are you going to make Portland too by chance?

 

[BIG POPPA]

  ^^ You and JJ are such tweakers!!

@johnjen are you going to make Portland too by chance?

Ya know, I am a doer and not a follower. Experience by trial and error. And thousands of hours listening. And now my rig is sounding pretty nice

 

[Soundsgoodtome]

R2R v Delta Sigma
I had an interesting idea for this Portland meet. I'll be bringing a Mutec 3+ Smart Clock as a transport and it can feed up to 6 DACs simultaneously. I'll set up my rig to have one Matrix Mini-I Delta Sigma dac and one PCM1704 R2R dac for people to switch between on the fly via the Audio-GD SA31SE. No cut in music and if you want to have fun, no telling which dac you're listening to (no peeking!). Some say you can't hear the difference between an r2r and a delta sigma but now you can test it with your phones or one of mine.

 

[grizzlybeast]

Front page is update more though not not finished totally. 
 
Updates include Kennerton Vali
 
Zach's NEW headphone amp
 
Vendor updates like MEE audio and iBasso 

 

[Oregonian]

Just an FYI for everyone coming - I'll be bringing my 1978 Hitachi SR-804 vintage speaker amp to the meet.  I'll have a CD player feeding it as well as an iPad.  Bring a CD if you like. 
 
It will have two separate speaker tap connections set up for XLR cables like HiFiMan stock cables.  My HE-6 and HE-400 are both set up for speaker tap connections and will be on site as well.   I'll also have a headphone out splitter (1/4") available for anyone wanting to listen to what a vintage system sounds like.  It's not my best or favorite amp but it's a spare that sounds darn good. 
 
I'm a vintage fanatic and it's all I have for headphone use (8 systems in use throughout my life) so if anyone has been considering going old school you'll have a chance to hear what has myself and many others raving about. 

 

[Soundsgoodtome]

  Just an FYI for everyone coming - I'll be bringing my 1978 Hitachi SR-804 vintage speaker amp to the meet.  I'll have a CD player feeding it as well as an iPad.  Bring a CD if you like. 
 
It will have two separate speaker tap connections set up for XLR cables like HiFiMan stock cables.  My HE-6 and HE-400 are both set up for speaker tap connections and will be on site as well.   I'll also have a headphone out splitter (1/4") available for anyone wanting to listen to what a vintage system sounds like.  It's not my best or favorite amp but it's a spare that sounds darn good. 
 
I'm a vintage fanatic and it's all I have for headphone use (8 systems in use throughout my life) so if anyone has been considering going old school you'll have a chance to hear what has myself and many others raving about. 

Ooohh, would like to try the HE560 on vintage speaker taps

 

[Oregonian]

 
Ooohh, would like to try the HE560 on vintage speaker taps

Cool!  Bring your XLR cable and have at it! 

 

[Soundsgoodtome]

 
Cool!  Bring your XLR cable and have at it! 

OHHH YEEAAAAHHH!!!!