It was a fine meet indeed and thanks to Gil (BIG POPPA) for organizing and Front Panel Express for the venue. I thought it went very well and as usual it was great to meet a new contingent of Head-Fiers. The Head-Fi force is definitely strong in Seattle - if this group keeps it up, I think they could definitely be next on the hit-list for a CanJam location after NYC '11.
Lately I've started to measure my rate of success at a meet by how much listening is done and at this meet it would've been zero if not for about 1 minute spent on an Audeze LCD-2 on the Balancing Act - which is a new record for me. One of these days I want to get down to zero and listen to absolutely nothing.
Yeah so as I barely listened to anything, I have no equipment impressions to offer - my time at the meet was spent either talking to people, taking the FPE tour, hanging out in general, or taking pics. Honestly I have almost no interest in listening to gear at meets anyway - these days I almost always go to meets for the travel experience, the people, and the fun in general to be had (eating, drinking, hanging out) more than anything else. I've owned a lot of gear in the past and out of current-production items I've either heard them before at other meets, or owned them before, or currently own them, or I can pretty easily afford to buy something if I really wanted to listen.
I do have 160 meet-related pics on my camera's memory card right now, but not all will be posted, I took lots of duplicates (due to image blur, bad pics, etc). I'd say probably about 33% of them will be good enough to post later. It's going to take a while to parse them though because I literally have several hundred other pics also on the memory card from my 2 other days in the Seattle area, and I want to process those quickly too. So it may be a while until I post the pics, but I'll definitely have them up before RMAF (Oct 15-17).