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Re: Head-Fi Bay Area Meet 2015 Impressions
« Reply #10 on: July 20, 2015, 06:02:10 AM »

AK Jr.

Not bad... not bad at all. (That's high praise)
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Re: Head-Fi Bay Area Meet 2015 Impressions
« Reply #11 on: July 20, 2015, 06:05:58 AM »

Some seriously unobtainable or expensive amps here.

Oh fuck you. Marv walks up to me with an excited look on his face and says: "You have to hear this amp!"

I see the $7000 Wells amp and think "wtf, is this legit?"

I put on the Abyss and 10 seconds later want to barf in my mouth. Sorry compressed stage, no top end air, and a warm sound like a dying LCD-3 out of a leben. Super dick move, Marv. Worst surprise of the meet.

The questyle DAPs, the new BW PSU, and the Ether's consistency were the positive surprises.
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Re: Head-Fi Bay Area Meet 2015 Impressions
« Reply #12 on: July 20, 2015, 06:11:03 AM »

gepardcv's stuff:

That is the best dynalo (dyna-mid or balanced dyna-lo) build that I have ever heard. TBH, I find most dynalo builds to have "difficult" treble, but this one was special. The KGST an quite involving and engaging sounding stat amp. Very tempted to pick this one up: http://www.head-fi.org/t/770412/kgst

The SR-207 is very normal sounding in terms of frequency response. The more expensive SR-407/507 are screwy in terms of FR, but not more technically proficient enough than the SR-207 to win me over. The SR-207 should be on the Leaderboard here. It's a steal.
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Re: Head-Fi Bay Area Meet 2015 Impressions
« Reply #13 on: July 20, 2015, 06:15:43 AM »

The long awaited AMB Gamma 3 DAC. I know many of us have been ruined by the Yggy - and this is a delta-sigma DAC. But still, I thought this was a pretty darn awesome achievement from Ti Kan. Plankton galore. Lots of attention paid to power. Hopefully will see details on this on his website soon.
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Re: Head-Fi Bay Area Meet 2015 Impressions
« Reply #14 on: July 20, 2015, 06:23:50 AM »

Here are some photos that CEETEE took. That's zdfx and me; and some closeups of the EC The Studio.

That's it folks. The only thing I missed that I wanted to hear was the Final Audio Design metal full sized headphones, but they didn't have desktop amp or DAC at their table, so I didn't bother. The Questyle room was totally full every time I peeked in there. There was nothing really new.
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Re: Head-Fi Bay Area Meet 2015 Impressions
« Reply #15 on: July 20, 2015, 06:26:05 AM »

Is that the correct polarity setup on the Headtrip? Possible reason for Ravi's impressions?
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Re: Head-Fi Bay Area Meet 2015 Impressions
« Reply #16 on: July 20, 2015, 06:39:26 AM »

AK Jr.

Not bad... not bad at all. (That's high praise)

This thing should replace Sony ZX1 on the leaderboard.
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Re: Head-Fi Bay Area Meet 2015 Impressions
« Reply #17 on: July 20, 2015, 03:58:15 PM »

 
Here are some photos that CEETEE took. That's zdfx and me; and some closeups of the EC The Studio.


Marv,

how were you NOT tarred and feathered for wearing a pyrate shirt to a HF meet?
hell, i don't post anything for months on HF and they take over my account (email and passw change) with no notice....
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Ravi is better looking than I imagined!
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Re: Head-Fi Bay Area Meet 2015 Impressions
« Reply #18 on: July 20, 2015, 04:22:39 PM »

@zero How was the ui on the questyle dap?

Last time it was laggy and missed button presses galore. The ui was a bit of a mess too
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Re: Head-Fi Bay Area Meet 2015 Impressions
« Reply #19 on: July 20, 2015, 04:36:47 PM »

Marc, AMB 3 versus the reDACted?
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