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Re: Brooks/LH/Chang Meet SoCal Impressions (June 27, 2015)
« Reply #70 on: June 29, 2015, 05:01:59 AM »

Looks like fun, sorry I couldn't make it. 

Can somebody put usernames to faces in that pic Luis posted?  I recognize most of the faces but can't remember who is who.
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Re: Brooks/LH/Chang Meet SoCal Impressions (June 27, 2015)
« Reply #71 on: June 29, 2015, 07:14:20 AM »

Finally made it back home to the Bay. So great to see all you guys and put faces to (screen)names. I'm sad I couldn't make it to dinner, that looked like a blast.

Some quick impressions:
- Yggy vs. Ear: Like what has been said, the Yggy's digital stage is better, the Ear's analog stage is better. When can I give Schiit more money to put an analog stage on my Yggy? The Yggy has more resolution and just has that analog sound from the supermegaburritoTM. The Ear's analog stage was just blacker and more gripping.
- Audio Zenith PM-X: The FR on them is absolutely fantastic. That said, I tend to like the things that we haven't figured out how to measure: resolution and having it give me the feels. These don't resolve as well as a HD800, but I'd say around the same as any other decent ortho, save the HE1000. They don't give me the feels (i.e.: Not as engaging) as the HE-6, but that's from memory, I didn't play them back to back. Overall a really great headphone and given a chance to compare, maybe I'd like them more than the HE-6, but I think the HE-6 is going to stay my favorite ortho.
- HE1K - popcorn Did I mention I'm returning my beta's?
- Black Widow - I love this amp so much I bought myself one. BW+[REDACTED]->Enigmas is going to be my work setup. This amp just is so engaging and resolving. My biggest concern is it's going to be too distracting.
- Schiit BiFrost + Lyr 2 + SS in Tube holes - I didn't take the time to give these a great listen with my known setup, but the resolution is there and it sounded great. The Ether that was plugged in had a decent sound as well. I'd like to put the Ether and the PM-X back to back and see which one I liked better.
- Anax's portable rig: With my JH-16s, it blew away basically everything I've been listening to them with. I need to get some UERMs.
- Meeting and see all of you: really quite great.
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Re: Brooks/LH/Chang Meet SoCal Impressions (June 27, 2015)
« Reply #72 on: June 29, 2015, 07:53:32 AM »

Finally made it back home to the Bay. So great to see all you guys and put faces to (screen)names. I'm sad I couldn't make it to dinner, that looked like a blast.

Some quick impressions:
- Yggy vs. Ear: Like what has been said, the Yggy's digital stage is better, the Ear's analog stage is better. When can I give Schiit more money to put an analog stage on my Yggy? The Yggy has more resolution and just has that analog sound from the supermegaburritoTM. The Ear's analog stage was just blacker and more gripping.
- Audio Zenith PM-X: The FR on them is absolutely fantastic. That said, I tend to like the things that we haven't figured out how to measure: resolution and having it give me the feels. These don't resolve as well as a HD800, but I'd say around the same as any other decent ortho, save the HE1000. They don't give me the feels (i.e.: Not as engaging) as the HE-6, but that's from memory, I didn't play them back to back. Overall a really great headphone and given a chance to compare, maybe I'd like them more than the HE-6, but I think the HE-6 is going to stay my favorite ortho.
- HE1K - popcorn Did I mention I'm returning my beta's?
- Black Widow - I love this amp so much I bought myself one. BW+[REDACTED]->Enigmas is going to be my work setup. This amp just is so engaging and resolving. My biggest concern is it's going to be too distracting.
- Schiit BiFrost + Lyr 2 + SS in Tube holes - I didn't take the time to give these a great listen with my known setup, but the resolution is there and it sounded great. The Ether that was plugged in had a decent sound as well. I'd like to put the Ether and the PM-X back to back and see which one I liked better.
- Anax's portable rig: With my JH-16s, it blew away basically everything I've been listening to them with. I need to get some UERMs.
- Meeting and see all of you: really quite great.

Did you lose your apple charger? Someone lost their apple charger on my power strip!

It was nice meeting you. You better stop procrastinating with those mods!
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Re: Brooks/LH/Chang Meet SoCal Impressions (June 27, 2015)
« Reply #73 on: June 29, 2015, 07:59:19 AM »

For the record, we still have no idea who made that photo and keeps dropping them off. Just to make things totally clear, I swear that I am not responsible for this nonsense (I lack the photoshop skills).
Once it's posted, anyone can print it and bring it to the meet isn't it ;)

I'm actually surprised we haven't seen any since this one. At least it's not on the front page.
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Re: Brooks/LH/Chang Meet SoCal Impressions (June 27, 2015)
« Reply #74 on: June 29, 2015, 08:00:33 AM »

Did you lose your apple charger? Someone lost their apple charger on my power strip!
Probably. I have many, many extras. Go ahead and give it to the Apple Fan in your life who'd like one.

It was nice meeting you. You better stop procrastinating with those mods!
Likewise. Yeah, those mods are happening now.
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Re: Brooks/LH/Chang Meet SoCal Impressions (June 27, 2015)
« Reply #75 on: June 29, 2015, 08:12:23 AM »

Did anyone get to compare the HE1k I brought vs Marv's production pair? Somehow I forgot to the the HE1k comparisons.
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Re: Brooks/LH/Chang Meet SoCal Impressions (June 27, 2015)
« Reply #76 on: June 29, 2015, 03:27:06 PM »

Should have been a really cool event  :)p1
There was any setup that almost everyone loved?
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Re: Brooks/LH/Chang Meet SoCal Impressions (June 27, 2015)
« Reply #77 on: June 29, 2015, 03:42:32 PM »

Awesome meet! Thanks to Marv and everyone else who helped set up the meet.

I had a blast. Mainly because I was actually able to listen to stuff and socialize rather than just sit at my table and pimp my software.
I was also surprised but happy that the Brooks Berdan folks let me do measurements in both of their uber listening rooms.

And then as if it couldn't get any better, we had awesome Taiwanese food at Pei Wei for lunch and then had the insanely amazing Indian food at Noor's. Thank you @shaizada! That was by far the best Indian food I have ever had.

Here's a few photos:

Their Magico Q7 room


The gear driving the Magico's


The Estelon XB room


The Gear driving the Estelon XB's


The Changfest back room




LFF's "Ultimate Ears"





More ear scanning


My table showing my Out Of Your Head software and the new and improved Vostock ES-31 amp/dac.


This was the Schiit...






Marv telling Mike Moffat how much bigger his DAC is. (Mike didn't believe him.)


"This Black Widow amp must have come from a higher power."



More pics:










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Re: Brooks/LH/Chang Meet SoCal Impressions (June 27, 2015)
« Reply #78 on: June 29, 2015, 03:43:14 PM »

so is it a night and day difference between the production V2 and the 450?

Am currently trying to convince myself not to buy the GO450....
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Re: Brooks/LH/Chang Meet SoCal Impressions (June 27, 2015)
« Reply #79 on: June 29, 2015, 04:20:36 PM »

so is it a night and day difference between the production V2 and the 450?

Am currently trying to convince myself not to buy the GO450....

Yeah, it really is. Buying a first-gen GO is just a silly thing to do at this point. Be patient. I think Casey said they expect to clear the GOv2 order backlog by the end of July, and to start shipping GOv2+ sometime in July.
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