Sorry for the delay in announcing the finalized reviewer list. We have received over 50 applicants in the i5 tour, some of them are applied through PM or referral. The response is way beyond my expectation, so I need more time to shortlist, group and assign tour sequence in each sub-tour. To cut the long story short, this is the reviewer list for i5 World Tour:
Group 1: US (Washington + Oregon)
- Soundsgoodtome (Seattle, WA)
- Barra (Seattle, WA)
- alpha421 (Bellevue, WA)
- nmatheis (Portland, OR)
This is a self-help group because the reviewers are personal friends of each other, and they have served as reviews for the US Tour of Cayin iDAC-6/iHA-6 previously.
Group 2: US (California)
- hakushondaimao (Calgary, Canada)
- gto88 (Bay area, CA)
- Alypius (Monterey, CA)
- The Fed (Long Beach, CA)
- fleasbaby (Redlands CA)
- miceblue (Los Angeles, CA)
We have 6 reviewers application from California, and one of the applicants has bought the i5 before the tour is started. I have send the Tour unit to hakushondaimao in advance, assuming we'll have a Canada group in the i5 tour. I was wrong, so hakushondaimao need to send his tour unit to California now.
Group 3: US (Colorado + Wisconsin)
- DJ The Rocket (Colorado)
- Voxata (Northern Colorado)
- verbositynow (Lakewood, CO)
- Hisoundfi (Wisconsin)
The sequence of reviewers in Colorado might subject to change as I don't have enough information to determine an optimized route for them. Will conform this email later on.
Group 4: US (Missouri + Minnesota)
- PinkyPowers (Kansas City, MO)
- ngoshawk (Warrensburg, MO)
- howdy (Minnesota)
- originalsnuffy (Minneapolis MN)
Group 5: US: East
- shotgunshane (Atlanta, GA)
- linux4ever (Northern Virginia, DC metro area)
- chef8489 (Asheville NC)
- Army-Firedawg (Charlotte, NC)
Group 6: Asia
- Hawaiibadboy (Japan)
- oneguy (Japan)
- noobandroid (East Malaysia)
- tobias89 (Singapore)
- earfonia (Singapore)
This group will involve international mailing, I want to thank them sincerely for their extra effort to make this group happen.
Group 7: Europe
- wirefriend (Kraków Poland)
- OSiRiSsk (Brno Czech Republic)
- Takeanidea (Liskeard, England, UK)
- Q Mass (Scotland, UK)
- mark2410 (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
- glassmonkey (Southampton, UK)
- CraftyClown (London, UK)
- Ithilstone
- Krisman (Suffolk - UK)
We have a group within group in this case and Takeanidea will be the UK sub-tour group coordinator. In fact most of the reviewers in the UK group are invited by Takeanidea, so I shall hands off the tour arrangement to Takeanidea when the Tour unit arrived UK. He can add new members to the UK tour, and arrange the tour sequence, or whatever he consider necessary.
This group will involve international mailing, I want to thank them sincerely for their extra effort to make this group happen.
Group 8: Oceania
- H20Fidelity (Australia)
- gikigill (Melbourne. Australia)
- emptymt (Melbourne, Australia)
- kamcok (Melbourne, VIC, Australia)
- Brooko (New Zealand)
Brooko is the group coordinator of the Oceania group. He is in the process of lining up more members to the tour, so we might adjust the sequence later on. RIght now I can only confirm H2OFidelity will be the first reviewer of the group, and I shall send the Tour unit to him as scheduled. We shall finalise the tour planning before H2OFidelity finish his 2-weeks audition.
This group will involve international mailing, I want to thank them sincerely for their extra effort to make this group happen.
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Since a new i5 firmware will be available in next few days, I shall defer the tour schedule to take advantages of the new firmware. The Tour unit will send out on 3rd November instead of 28th October.
Unless otherwise agreed, at the end of the tour, Group 1 to 5 will send the tour unit to our US authorized dealer MusicTeck in New Jersey. Group 6 to 8 will send the tour unit back to Hong Kong at our expenses.
