[Armaegis]

Hah, should have jumped on the Crack eh? 

 

[DigitalFreak]

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Hah, should have jumped on the Crack eh? 

Yeah big time. I'm kicking myself for not selling my left lung and getting that amp from you.

 

[Armaegis]

And I just sold the smack kit today too. I have one of Mythless' tube amps here that you can try tomorrow though. 

 

[DigitalFreak]

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And I just sold the smack kit today too. I have one of Mythless' tube amps here that you can try tomorrow though. 

Thanks, I definitely want to see what a nice smooth sounding tube amp will do for this can.

 

[Armaegis]

Oh and I'm not sure if you were ever looking for the classic Etymotics, but there's an ER-4S here... http://www.head-fi.org/t/655130/pfe232-custom-one-pro-vintage-k141-er-4s-fs
and if you're a pirate, get $10 off... 

 

[Girls Generation]

Haha that's my buddy who I always ride with to Vancouver meets or mini meets.

 

[DigitalFreak]

Nahhh, I'm pretty happy with my 4A's right now. GG you know planx? I never even knew he was Canadian.

 

[Girls Generation]

Yeah... I think I have to drive him back home every Wednesday after class. Augh.
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Nahhh, I'm pretty happy with my 4A's right now. GG you know planx? I never even knew he was Canadian.

 

[DigitalFreak]

The head-fi meet video is finally up
 

 
Description
Say hello to fellow head-fier's Armaegis (Winnipeg), GirlsGeneration (Vancouver), and bearNFN (Minnesota). In Wpg Armaegis is always the guy who hosts our head-fi meets. Because of his willingness to host and his pure joy and commitment for the hobby he's become our fearless leader and resident ortho mod specialist. This mini meet was the second of two scheduled mini meets which were put together in an attempt to accommodate all our small circle of Wpg regulars as well as our two out of town head-fier guests. A fun time was had by all and many thanks goes out to GirlsGeneration for dropping work commitments at the last minute and driving in from Brandon and to bearNFN for driving in from the state of Minnesota to schmooze it up with us canucks.

Although only a mini meet this meet had to easily be our most productive meet up gear wise and the display table was nearly overflowed by the wide assortment of gear. Headphone wise we had the AKG Q701, HifiMan HE-6, HifiMan HE-500, Audeze LCD-2, Audeze LCD-3, Sennheiser HD650, Sennheiser HD800, and a vintage early 80's Stax as well as one of Armaegis's transplanted ortho experiments. In the amping department Schiit Audio was well represented with the Asgard 2, Magni, and Mjolnir. Besides Schiit Audio we also had amps from NuForce Staxx and even a speaker tube amp from Musical Paradise. In the DAC ranks again we had Schiit Audio hogging the table with the Modi Bifrost and Gungnir followed by products from Nuforce. In the mobile gear arena we had various products from Cypher Labs, ALO Audio, Leckerton Audio, Tralucent Audio, iBasso, and Triad Audio. Needless to say it was a busy time trying to sample everything that was on the display table.

Many thanks and much respect goes out to Armaegis for investing the time and patience involved in hosting a meet. Same well wishes goes out to GirlsGenneration and bearNFN for going out of their way to make it to the meet and make it such a winner.

 

[Armaegis]

So much ridiculous gear... 
 
Audeze: LCD-2, LCD-3
Sennheiser: HD650, HD800 x 2
Nuforce: DAC-100, HAP-100, Icon2, HDP
Schiit: Magni, Modi, Asgard2, Bifrost, Gungnir, Mjolnir
HiFiMAN: HE-6, HE-500
GG's gajillion cables
and a bag of M&Ms
 
And this was possibly the longest meet that we've had too, spanning about 7 hours. You missed all our deep conversations about worldly topics!

 

[DigitalFreak]

Trust me I didn't want to leave but I had to. So Nathan, was there anything at the meet you would gladly swap your HE-6 for?

 

[Armaegis]

Nothing that really comes to mind... maybe one of the Audeze's if I could crack 'em open and do something about that funny midrange shout 

 
Even then, I find I prefer the overall sound of the HiFiMANs. The HE-500 is good, but could use a bit more tuning as well. If I were to pick something more mid-fi, the Sennheiser HD600/650 would be a top pick (which ironically used to be hi-fi before all the big guys showed up). 

 

[DigitalFreak]

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Nothing that really comes to mind... maybe one of the Audeze's if I could crack 'em open and do something about that funny midrange shout 

 
Even then, I find I prefer the overall sound of the HiFiMANs. The HE-500 is good, but could use a bit more tuning as well. If I were to pick something more mid-fi, the Sennheiser HD600/650 would be a top pick (which ironically used to be hi-fi before all the big guys showed up). 

Sennheiser both the 800 and 650 caught my attention the most out of everything at the meet. I'm not crazy about the HD 800 pricing though so I'd probably go either HE-500 with the pad mods or a HD650. Ironic how I didn't even get a chance at the balanced Schiit rig. I was to busy trying other stuff filming and snapping pics.

 

[Armaegis]

We probably spent more time yakking about world politics than we did listening... seriously!

 

[bearFNF]

I'm home with no issues.  Wanted to say a big thanks for the meet guys.  Looking forward to the next one where we can do a cook out, too...