Upstateguy's November NYC meet impressions (with picture content, woot!)

[Upstateguy]

Hi Guys

It was a great meet. I always enjoy everyone's impressions.

First off, it was too bad trose49 couldn't make it. I was looking forward to meeting him.

n_maher, on the other, hand did make it

and he brought some great sounding stuff

Nate was nice enough to open the Herstens DAC so we could have a peak inside

it was hard to compare the balanced mini M^3 to the one I brought because Nate was feeding it from an Arcam into his "Hertsens" DAC and I was going optical out of a Shuttle computer to a Constantine DAC..... but I'll leave it to those who are not as affected by placebo effect as I am to report on the sound....

I thought the pico was very nice. Its size was much smaller and its sound was much bigger than I anticipated...

it was so small, I took a picture next to my watch to show the size

trose49's name badge made the rounds.... here it is gracing a Woo 3+... and speaking of the Woos, Jack brought the ones with the V-cap upgrades and they sound tremendous

USG

[boomana]

you know, i had never seen a picture of nate before, and he looks exactly how i imagined he would.

Me neither, but he kinda looks like this guy

[bhd812]

UpState what program did you make the name badges with?

[Upstateguy]

UpState what program did you make the name badges with?

word

[riceboy]

vince vaughn? i can see it.

Wow I can see it to

Thanks for posting up pics Upstateguy

[deepak]

Oh damn Nate is the second NH celebrity look alike I know. My friend's dad looks like Bush Sr

[JBLoudG20]

Reks that deserves a custom title.

[n_maher]

Me neither, but he kinda looks like this guy

You're not the first to say it, my wife just cracked up laughing when she saw you post that.

Reks that deserves a custom title.

Oh Nos...

[JBLoudG20]

he's the mock motto maker man, dude.

But he's also Vince Vaughn!

[Dusty Chalk]

There's a whole concept ... I call it CMR -- "Celebrity Most Resembling" ... I think it was first propagated by William Gibson or Bruce Sterling, where people used it to pick out strangers in a crowd, for example, picking up someone at the airport.

[bhd812]

word

Thats what I was thinking of using anyway. Thanks for the info and the badges look great!!!

[n_maher]

But he's also Vince Vaughn!

You happy now?

[JBLoudG20]

You happy now?

Yes

[nickknutson]

Man! I wish I would have flown out for the meet, looks like I missed some good auditioning opportunities...I've been jonesin' to try out a Woo. It would have been nice to meet some fellow audio freaks.

[ojnihs]

the stuff always looked well made to me, at good prices...

still too expensive for my blood...

not sure if i really want to get another home amp, but if i did, i'd need something that's cheap to power my hd580s. not sure what that is yet. was thinking about a mini3, but not sure about that. nate's mini32 would be sweet if i had a balanced source.

[Upstateguy]

Man! I wish I would have flown out for the meet, looks like I missed some good auditioning opportunities...I've been jonesin' to try out a Woo. It would have been nice to meet some fellow audio freaks.

Hi Nick

Here are some of my Woo Pics....

the first one is before everybody got there,

Jack told me that all the amps he brought were V-cap upgrades, except this one with blackgates, which was his favorite because of its very large sound stage

and here's Jack ...................

[postjack]

How did the GS1000 fair with the woo fare?

[mjg]

those woo audio amps are pretty nice, i wish i tried them with grados... How would 300b tubes sound with grados anyway?

[boomana]

Thanks for the pics and impressions so far, guys. Any more impressions from anyone?

[en480c4]

Here's the thread that was split off from the planning thread with impressions:

http://www.head-case.org/index.php/topic,2386.0.html

[nickknutson]

Thanks for the pics Upstateguy!

[ojnihs]

i never imagined that the woo stuff was that nice, course i've never heard them so i can't comment, but i guess it was just a feeling i had

[Nanoha]

i never imagined that the woo stuff was that nice, course i've never heard them so i can't comment, but i guess it was just a feeling i had

Same. But now I know that KG approves of the build quality.

[jinp6301]

the woo stuff was awesome, especially the 5. Probably the best I heard my 225s ever. I cant really comment on it with the CD3000s since they sound so weird to me. I tried the lower end stuff (woo 6? woo 3?) but I wasnt THAT impressed. It was a good amp but I've heard better, especially at that price point.

[Upstateguy]

the woo stuff was awesome, especially the 5. Probably the best I heard my 225s ever. I cant really comment on it with the CD3000s since they sound so weird to me. I tried the lower end stuff (woo 6? woo 3?) but I wasnt THAT impressed. It was a good amp but I've heard better, especially at that price point.

Agreed, that 5 was really nice.....