Pretty sure Bill-P just used Jerg's guide as reference and did almost everything similarly.

Bill would be best to answer this, but there should be a couple of small differences. Ex. Rug liner on both front and back of driver.

Finally got some time to sit down and write up some thoughts. Big thanks to Zerodeefex for arranging the meet and his wife for letting us use their home. Food and drink was amazing. Everybody there was extremely pleasant to talk to. Light Harmonic guys were hella chill. Another thanks to CEE TEE for the UERM and providing the Pliny. Best beer I've had.

I'll keep in mind to properly prepare a setup for the F5 for future meets. Overall feedback was very positive, and I'm very happy with it driving my Code-X and bookshelf speakers.

Now I'm trying to decide between upgrading my Vali to a Zana Deux or similar. The HD800 out of the Yggy and Balancing Act was my favorite setup there.

I realized this time that you could pull the Abyss headband further apart this time through. Fit and sound is much better. I was very impressed with it through the Ragnarok and the F5. The Geek Pulse unit the LH guys brought sounded great too. I'm really looking forward to mine when it comes.

The KGSS with the 007 and 009 both sounded fantastic. I would love to build one I free up some time and start looking into expanding into electrostatic headphones.

Still not a fan of Audeze headphones, from the fit to the sound. LCD-3s didn't sound good to me out of the F5 and Ragnarok.

The GO SE and Lisa portable amp was surprisingly good as well. I wasn't able to demo the Leckerton portable amp for the UERMs, but I'll be looking into the amp-only option when that is released.

Yeah, I deviated in some places. One thing is what Jeff mentioned: I put the shelf-liner in the back of the driver baffle instead of fuzzors. The effect is... interesting, to say the least.

The other thing is... I broke the seal of the ear pads, and that helped bring some more bass out, though it may cause bass to get a bit too full. In contrast, something like the Code-X does sound faster, more focused, but also less bassy.

Essentially, I wanted a bass-heavy HE-560. If stock HE-560 could be likened to a better HD600, then mine would be a better HD650.

Anyway, will post some photos on everything once I'm less lazy.

Meet pictures attached.

• Sunset shining upon the Yggy proto as it is transported to the Bay Area
• Klone+Pulse / Schiit small Uber stacks / PWD2 + Yggy DACs
• Another view of the Klone and Schiit small stacks, modded Abyss
• PWD2, Yggy, ECBA, Rag
• Tricked out Geek Pulse with Engima and HFM headphones
• Wadia CDP/DAC and random headphones and shit
• SF TransDAC, Ciunas USB-SDPIF, DIY chip based amp (this was good sounding)
• Shitload of headphones

Yeah ZD, but that means the other 1/2 were phones people were actually USING!