Thanks for all your work on this front, John.
I think it's a laudable effort, and that there should be a way to try to add the strengths of our hobby in with the strengths of the audiophile hobby. The problem I have is that I think we were making serious headway with the CanJam meets as independent entities as well, and it's a shame to loose that momentum.
It seems to me that we've moved sideways, and not forward in this case, hitching our gitalong to the audiophile world. They say they're dying, you know.
I talked to John Atkinson at RMAF and he was very complementary about how the headphone hobby is moving forward. But he was saddened to hear that independent CanJams were likely to end. He definitely perceives the headphone world as the healthiest area of the audio hobby.
I think separate events are as, if not more, important to the health of our hobby than events combined with the audiophile market at large.
I think we have new and important things to say and do ... I think we're the leaders, not the followers, in this case (how to breath new life into the audiophile hobby) ... I think running our own events is important.