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Marvey:
Safely back home now. Once again, Warrenpeachy and Ethan put on a great show. A good change of pace this year was that the hobbyists were inter-spaced with the vendors, unlike least year were some hobbyists with some great gear (e.g., the guy with the Lampi) were stashed away away in some idiot room that we only noticed at the last minute.

Wow, so many years have gone by and it was good to see members of the old Bay Area crowd I used to hang around with when I lived up there. On the drive home, I nostalgically went back in time to the meet that CEETEE put together in 2011. I see the many of the same faces, except now our faces, necks, and bellies are all puffed up. Getting old sucks.

I recall CEETEE "Hey, you are Purrin?" at the entrance to the DoubleTree. I remember Whitney (Rhythmdevils) walking up to my table and dumping a dozen vintage headphones from his backpack. pcf dropped by with his HP1000s (a very memorable experience). Jason and Mike Moffat were there with the Asgard 1 and Lyr 1 (I didn't care for those amps - haha). Met n3rdling with his STAX setup which was like OMFG. And Frank Cooters' blue toob (mercury vapor rectifers) SE stat amp setup which IMO is still the most slamming stat amp I've heard to this day, including the one he brought to this year's meet. At the end of the meet (2011), a small group of us gathered together, disturbed and disappointed at the LCD2rev1 considering the rabid hype at HF about it. We quietly discussed if we should even say anything negative or against the grain on HF. Doc Bottlehead overheard us and said something to the effect of "At my age, if it's garbage, we call it garbage." I ended up taking those words to heart for myself.

Jump a few years later at the SofiTel meet, and there's this handsome brown dude with big huge eyes (zerofeedex) that I could tell had "rascal" written all over him. And then maybe a year back to the LAX Hilton were this kid, not even in high school (maccat) had this awesome setup with the HD650, a turntable, a Jolida phono-pre, and a Bottlehead Crack. I was like wow, this kid put on a better setup than 90% of the others with 25% of the budget.

The awesome thing about these meets is how many enduring friendships are made with people who have similar interests.

zerodeefex:
Oh my god. I was a lurker at 2012 and brought the TEAC and RWAK100 in 2013. I was so embarrassed by the casing job on my beta 22 and dynahi single ended that I never brought either.

I've met so many wonderful people and made so many friends at the meets. Genuinely wonderful guys with families and lives and hardcore day jobs and concerns that take up 90% of their time and they pour everything else they have into making this hobby and community amazing.

So, after the last meet we put on in Feb 2014, how many friends have you made at the Judemeets™ since?

Marvey:

--- Quote from: zerodeefex on July 20, 2015, 05:31:35 AM ---Oh my god. I was a lurker at 2012 and brought the TEAC and RWAK100 in 2013. I was so embarrassed by the casing job on my beta 22 and dynahi single ended that I never brought either.

--- End quote ---

You realize that while I enjoyed speaking with you, I didn't bother listening to your POS setup. :-) I totally ignored it.


--- Quote from: zerodeefex on July 20, 2015, 05:31:35 AM ---So, after the last meet we put on in Feb 2014, how many friends have you made at the Judemeets™ since?

--- End quote ---

Can you give me a minute to think about that? Let me go through my Rolodex to see if I can find a match.


P.S. Dammit, how much more crap have you owned that I didn't know about?

kothganesh:
Marv,

anything of note by way of new gear ?

Marvey:
Let me post pictures and we shall discuss. I am prohibiting myself from talking about amps, but I sent Ravi (zdfx) to listen to a few that I think he would have found "interesting". (zdfx, let me post pix first).

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