Another Seattle meet finished. They seem to go by so fast. As socrates said, we were
nailed having hedd-fy go down less than a week before our meet. With all of the contact
information, including phone numbers (!) locked away, I was nervous and frustrated. I was
hoping that people would remember where it was, and when it was. (I later found out that
some enterprising souls were smart enough to check the cached pages form google, so I have to say I was impressed!)
My two biggest concerns were: Justin from Headamp, and some gear coming in from Headroom. If the meet fell on it's ass, we'd have a difficult time trying to get any traction in the future.
We split the difference.
Connections through headwize and emails somehow went askew with Justin, so he played it
safe and opted not to come. Gah! I'm definitely sorry that happened, but I know this was his hard-earned dollars going towards the visit, so I absolutely don't blame him. Justin, if you're reading this: we'll plan another and you are definitely invited. By that time, we can trade email, phone numbers, whatever!
As luck would have it, though, Andrew Hertsens dropped me an email at my home address, and
got a package together really fast, and had it out to me in a few days. Thanks, Andrew!
The box showed up with the 2007 Portable Desktop and the 2006 pimped out Desktop. Here's
a photo of the opened box...heh heh...
hey, where's the portable?
Oh, that's right, I'm listening to it while packing. Never mind!
You've seen the 12:20 photo I took. I honestly was pretty nervous. But in the back of my
mind I thought: come on. People will show. And the did. THANK GOD!
And socrates showed up with Pizza....'sall good my brotha!
Socrates (Young) vowed to bring less gear. Looks like that didn't happen. I was happy
with that .
Nate: Wow. I got to listen to the Nugget and was really impressed. I started in with a
pair of K701s, but was just not gettin the love. Then I plugged in my HD600s and wow,
everything just worked. Beauty! Very musical, and a sweet build. Nice to see some Maher gear making it to the west coast.
They're multiplying!!!
The coolest part of the meet was getting new members. Here's kelvinz enjoying the MPX3.
And here's kelvinz enjoying the MPX3 (yeah, I just said that. But at least the police could identify him from this picture.)
Here's xtreme4099 pretending he can't hear socrates singing along.
Gil with his customized KSC75s. Behind him is my DVP-S9000ES driving the Headroom gear.
Another new member, Akui, who sponged up so much information. He's already modding his gear. Go DIY!!!
aNOTHER new member!!! wittyzTH. I was happy to see him here as his ride to the meet was quite compromised from the heddfy outage.
Andy (HerrBlau) blazed in and quickly set up his desktop machine. Looks all profesisonal-like down to the pen! Zhalou, too!
Here's Joshatdot's buddy K. What a guy. The wisecracker with a totally straight face. He's all fly here...
But once he tried a few different pairs, he fell into a trance...
Welcome to the dark side, K!
Aren't you wondering what's on that monitor? I was...
The ATH-ESW9. I had a short listen with these and definitely liked them. The bass was surprising and I didn't expect to hear that much!
Andy with the pimped-out desktop.
And...Andy lost in the wonderful world of the pimped-out desktop. I definitely liked this amp.
Yet another new member. I will admit I am terrible with names. If you are here reading this, uhm...please let me know your name so I can post here! I was impressed with this guy, though. He went straight to the DIY stuff, and began asking lots of questions about my Pimeta. Ladies and Gentlemen, we have another DIY'er in our midst! Excellent!
Okay, and the fourth of five (5, count 'em) new members. Geez! Very cool! I was totally jazzed (you could say, bhjazzed) that these new people were there. Excellent!
Mike...motherone. I understand Mike has, at any one time, something like 58 projects going at once (well, that's what I heard, anyway. My ears might have been ringing at that point). Still, he's got to be the DIY king of Seattle!
here are two shots of Mike's table.
The wood paneled units are the Millett Max, and the original Millett. Nice work!
And finally, just to prove that, just because the last two Seattle meets have been in libraries, we're not a bunch of wimps!
I'll never forget K's story about when he met Josh. The fact that he TOLD this story in a crowded restaurant just a few feet from other tables full of families proves the cajones on this guy. Hilarious.
