Hey man, I'd be stoked to have you come up with or without your gear . And yeah, I'll try to paste it below (doing this from a tablet, bare with me...)
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Hey guys!! This is a new thread to replace the old one (here) with the updated information on the upcoming Music City Meet in Nashville!!
Event Details:
Location: Best Western Franklin Inn (Conference Room)
Address: 1308 Murfreesboro Road, Franklin, TN 37064
Date: May 10th, 2014
Times: 10am - 8pm
Note: the Best Western is very meh-looking from the exterior, but the conference room they have is several times larger (and a good deal nicer) than some of the other ones I looked at, and the price is very reasonable, so I think it will serve our purposes just fine!
Conference Room Pics: (I'm a cruddy photographer on a cellphone, so excuse the quality):
Current Attendees and Gear:
(Note: please let me know if there are any changes to this list, and I'll get it updated!)
skyline315:
HRT MSII
Schiit Asgard 1
Beyerdynamic DT880 - 250 ohm
Beyerdynamic DT1350
Theogenes:
Lynx Hilo
Audio-gd Master 8
First Watt F5 (Rawson clone)
Hifiman HE-6 (Audeze vegan pads)
Beyerdynamic T5p (DoubleHelix modded to balanced operation)
kclarksville:
Antique Sould Lab Mg Head DT
Little Dot Mk3
Grado SR80i
jaywillin:
MAD Ear+ HD
Wadia 121
Audeze LCD-X
Grado GS1000i
Grado RS1i
Mr. Speakers Alpha Dogs
bigweasleyfan:
Fostex T10
Oteil:
K.I.C.A.S. Caliente amp
Glow Audio Amp One
Denon 2000,5000 & 7000
Grado GS1000 (Original)
Grado RS1 Buttonless
Grado HF-2
Grado SR-80i
Audio Technica ATH-ESW9
Pure Digital Dock
Bel Canto DAC2
JoeDoe:
Grado RS1i
Grado Cocobolo SR80i
LIttle Dot LD1+ with several tubes/opamps
iBasso DX50
HiFiMan HE400
Postal_Blue:
Sennheiser HD580
Beyerdynamic DT990
Denon D5000
Grub => CKIII
SOHA II
Porta Corda III (diy kit version)
Carrie/Grub USB System
Frank Berryman (ultrahighendreview.com)
Porteroso:
Grado PS500
Grado SR80i
Fiio E10
Woo Audio WA6
Zach Mehrbach (ZMF Headphones):
ZMF
ZMF x Vibro
Note: Zach will not be physically in attendance, but he's sending us his headphones to check out anyway!!
finao1
Beyerdynamic T70p
Beyerdynamic T51p
Sennheiser Momentums
Schitt Valhalla (in cool black trim)
Schitt Vali
Schitt Modi
ALO International
Food Situation:
There will not be full-on food at the meet, but I'm going to pick up a few snacks to gnosh upon when the blood sugar levels start dipping. If anyone has anything they'd like to bring, feel free! The hotel itself is about 5 minutes from Cool Springs, and there are a million good places to eat there, so if/when the hangry bug starts to nibble at you, you can hop down the road and get pretty much anything you'd like. There's also a Shoney's next door, if you're into that sort of thing. Alternately, there were plenty of squirrels around the premises for anyone with a high energy level and low culinary expectations.
Additional Festivities:
I am going to come down the night before (probably won't arrive before 7-8pm unless I can finagle something at work), and I'm down for dinner with whomever would like to come out! Also, I have a feeling the meeting will wrap up at precisely beer thirty, so if anyone wants to run out after the meet and grab a quick bite and some brews, I'm down. Lemme know!
What We Need:
Extension cables and power strips: There are only 9 outlets, and they're on the outside walls of a pretty large room, so bring any spares you can!
Camera man: As you can see from the room pics I posted above, Ansel Adams I ain't. So if anybody would like to bring a camera and get snap-happy, please do so! Also, I'd like to compile those and any other pics (cellphones, etc) after the meet for sharing with everyone. This is, with any luck, the first in a long series of awesome Nashville meets, so it would be great to properly document it!
Proselytizing Loudmouths: Due to the rather expeditious nature of the current incarnation of this event, there are probably a lot of people who would like to attend, but either don't think it's happening now, or never knew it was happening in the first place! So we need to get out there and SPREAD THE GOOD WORD! I'm going to post a link to this thread in a few related threads around here to try to let people know it's happening, and I'm going to be sending out some mass PMs shortly as well (apologies in advance if I blow you up in the next few minutes), and I'll also have an updated link to the event in my signature line, which you can feel free to copy and share or add to your sig line too. The most critical element for a successful meet is the people that show up!
I'm Interested! What do I do?
Anyone is welcome to swing by and spend as little or as long as they'd like! If you plan on bringing some gear to share, I'd appreciate it if you could let me know so I can update the gear list. Also, if you are definitely coming but don't plan on bringing anything, still chime in on the thread-- you don't have to bring gear to be welcome! Even if you have no audio gear to bring, if you want to bring a couple of extension cords or power strips, or maybe some snacks, they would be appreciated, but not at all required. And last, but certainly not least-- help us SPREAD THE WORD and let people know about the event!!
Guys, I'm VERY excited about this, and cannot wait to get a chance to actually put faces with Head-Fi handles while listening to world-class gear!! I'll see you in Nashville on May 10th!!!
