An exciting occasion this is. Great work
@drftr @MatW!
Let me guess,
@davidmolliere is the one dressed in the grey sweater with the double thumbs up in the picture.
Yeah that was me
Such a great event and
top notch organization and amazing venue I can't thank
@MatW and
@drftr enough for this epic meetup!
(by the way @MatW I owe you for dinner let me know so that I can send a PayPal your way!)
It's going to be hard to top that one, but we'll try!
No way I would have had the opportunity to audition anything like the insanely great IEMs we have no place to audition them in Paris (maybe there is a business idea there...) but more importantly to meet the great people of the community... it's been an
energizing two days with such a passionate and diverse bunch @NYanakiev asked me at the end what was the highlight of those two days and I said definitely the people, yeah amazing gear for sure and things I missed like Trailli and Trailli Ti, Fei wan and many others but I spent more than half the time talking and I sure don't regret it
. I was able to blame
@Tokpakorlo in person for his mouth watering cable reviews and how much it has cost me lately
Great diner mainly with
@Scuba Devils @armstrj2 and
@F700 as the place was a bit loud and discussing with everyone being quite a big party was not very easy although
@slumberman also dropped in for a very interesting conversation about artists and how he tries to get hem to open to the joy of better gear to listen to music and not only to mix it. Many conversations also at the venue, too many to mention everyone !
I'll post impressions of what I listened to a bit later as I am also 3 weeks into a new job and it's been intense... A lot of amazing stuff for sure my head was spinning
!
Interesting detail is that some at our meetup were the physical link between 2 of the most successful group threads on Head-fi by connecting
@flinkenick's 17 Flagship IEM Shootout with the Watercooler, as Nic himself managed to join in himself today for a few hours. Much appreciated, especially as he all but left the hobby. Many of you here were regulars on Nic's thread before the Watercooler even existed and are now spreading the word on Jeff's. So kudos to Nic to get all of this started and to Jeff to continue all the good work. Amen.
drftr
How did I miss Nic !
Or maybe it was sunday at lunch or afternoon ?
By the way the drive back was excellent, I was home by 7.30pm Paris was not as swamped by traffic jams as usual