OK... It looks like with Rich's get together we'll have some audio goodies to listen to in different rooms over the next couple weeks.
This is getting to be last minute, but I'll officially put this on the calendar. Saturday Feb. 27 starting around 4-5PM.
The reason it's so late in the afternoon is that I'm going to be participating in the St. Baldrick's event at Hibernian Pub in Raleigh that day starting at 1PM. So I will be buzz cut when you all see me later that afternoon. I'll create a separate post for folks to let them know and donate if you feel the need.
anyways, back to this get together.
New toys:
- a new pair of floorstanders that are modestly priced
- the diamond tweeter equipped Usher Tiny Dancer (formerly known officially as Be-718)
- I'll be putting in a call to ken to see if we can work something out for me to steal back his Usher Mini 2s for the weekend
- new subwoofers from TBI and others that I'm trying to break in and integrate with some bookshelf speaker options
- new digital front ends including the now broken in slightly modified Oppo 83SE, a new digital transport, and a couple DAC options.
- a comparison using the same machine between the Lynx L22 soundcard outputing AES/EBU through custom JPS dongle and the M2Tech USB-spdif dongle that uses proprietary drivers to output 24/192 via kernel streaming. So bring your hi-rez files!
- a new to me amplifier that is a more refined version of the Butler Audio amps... but also a higher price tag to go along with it....
What won't be here just yet:
new Harbeth demo models to listen and compare to the modestly priced speakers.
I'm going to simple again. So pizza will likely be delivered and I'll have some munchies.... Stale beer that still hasn't been drunk from our last events will be available and I'll get a few more bottles of different brands. If you want to bring something, that's fine. But please don't bring too much beer and leave it behind
I'd rather you just bring yourself and more music choices for us to hear, especially high rez stuff.
As an aside, it's become oh so abundantly clear with the different speakers that I have some serious work to do on my structure to tame the bass issue that some wanted to attribute to the Harbeth Monitor 40.1s... It's even more obvious with the subs.... the measurements are ugly and it isn't any of the speakers fault...
let me know via PM, email, phone, or this thread if you can make it. I'd like to get an idea of headcount. Thanks! If Sunday works better for everyone, we can do that date as well. I'm open to either...