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  12. NYC Meet Feb 4-5 2017

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    That says a lot about head-if today I think.


    Head-Fi has always been commercial. It's just now blatantly, unapologetically commercial. CanJam is a commercial trade show, and has been for some time.

    That said, I did go to a very cool Head-Fi meet last weekend in Philadelphia that was very much like any that one of us would have held a decade or more ago. It was fun, laid-back, and no-nonsense. It's very much still possible when people make it happen.
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  14. NYC Meet Feb 4-5 2017

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    4 hours ago, Dusty Chalk said:

    I'd take one, but I forgot about plans I had Sunday, so I'm a 'maybe' at this point.  How many do you have left?  Would you mind penciling me in for one, because I am still going to try to make it.

    I don't know that it's a matter of have left, I just had a deadline to submit them earlier today. But I can probably add more a la minute if I had to guess.  I'll check.

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  20. NYC Meet Feb 4-5 2017

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    1 minute ago, Hopstretch said:

    If the Ginger Man is a shitshow on Friday, my mate who works around there suggests Rattle N Hum on East 33rd St. as an alternative.

    Heard of it, heard it's good, haven't been. Last time I went to GM was on a Saturday, and it was just very crowded and loud, but still entirely possible to get beers, which was good as they had quite a lineup of sours that night.

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  21. Chord Mojo

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    On 1/14/2017 at 4:37 AM, jp11801 said:

    Jeff I have a mojo and love it but I do have to say WTF on the Poly costing the same as the Mojo. Cool idea I just didn't figure I was buying half a DAP with the other half coming 16 months after the first. I am curious to see how well integrated the Poly Mojo feels after snapping them together. I hate traveling looking like  Macgyver, between the phone, camera cable, usb cable strapped to the mojo.

    I tried them hands-on at CES. The two when put together do feel quite well integrated, the connection was not loose at all.  It's a nifty setup, if slightly kludgey. I agree that a one-box solution would be more elegant, and possibly smaller.

    The Hugo 2 was where I was more impressed with audio performance, and it looks like they have solved some of the easily broken connectors of the original. However, despite being "higher power" according to the designer I spoke to, the headphone amp doesn't cut it compared to the Pico Power I had on hand.  I found it odd that the main designer/engineer kept trying to impress upon me that the headphone amp was capable of driving speakers (all the statistics on it were quoted into 8ohm loads, rather than a more typical headphone impedance), and ignoring how it performed with actual headphones.  Chord certainly can build a DAC, but their integration with the headphone world is definitely still a work in progress, IMO.

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  22. NYC Meet Feb 4-5 2017

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    I'll be busy HeadAmping during meet hours, but I am definitely excited that we have a good contingent for NYC adventures.  Here's a couple of spots I haven't seen mentioned, that I enjoyed on my last NYC trip, not sure if they will be convenient to any of our activities, but though to mention them:

    Big Alice Brewing, Long Island City - Super chill little brewery, great smoked saison, several different good sours, and more. Met the owner, a laid-back guy from Wisconsin, who was very accommodating, and opened a bottle of their gin-barrel-aged anniversary beer for me and my companion to try, even though it wasn't on the menu.  Really enjoyed this spot.

    City Hops Beer Store, 60th and 2nd - Think SF's city beer in miniature. Maybe 5 bar seats total. High-quality small taplist and friendly staff

    Augur's Well, East Village - I really liked the tap list and vibe at this place, they were pretty focused on local stuff mostly unfamiliar to my west coast ass, and I had a few amazing beers here.

    Ginger Man is of course pretty close to our meet location, and has a great beer selection, if being a total clusterfuck both times I have visited.

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