CanJam 2009

[faust3d]

My son got sent home with a fever yesterday putting the Most Important Birthday Party of All Time in jeopardy.

Since I'm missing CanJam for this, my wife and son are going to go through with this damn party even if they are both bedridden.

No, I'm not bitter.

sick kids are so pitiful looking you might see him and not have a party.

[Hopstretch]

Got to airport to find my lovely wife the road warrior had used some of her millions of airmiles to upgrade me to 1st Class. Believe this obliges me to drink on the plane. Delayed a half hour, shoveling down egg mcmuffins to pass time.

[postjack]

I'll be attempting to upload pertinent Canjam photos to my facebook throughout the weekend. you will need to add me if you want to see them. Jack Johnson, Mobile, AL.

[Hopstretch]

Plane broken.

Hopefully airport brew pub opens at 12:00.

Cock warts!

[Voltron]

VanJam is rolling out right now! Sans WiFi because Bandago screwed us over, but we are working on mobile posting options. Cheers all and we will see you this afternoon~

[guzziguy]

My son got sent home with a fever yesterday putting the Most Important Birthday Party of All Time in jeopardy.

Since I'm missing CanJam for this, my wife and son are going to go through with this damn party even if they are both bedridden.

No, I'm not bitter.

Dinny, you're looking at this wrong. It's not a problem, it's an opportunity. Now all you need to do is:

1. Say to Mrs. Monkey "I guess the party is off as Little Monkey is sick. That means you won't need me this weekend".

2. Buy round trip ticket to LA and get on a plane.

See? Opportunity!

[The Monkey]

Ken, believe me, you and I are on the same page. If he has a fever tonight, I'm booking a flight.

[guzziguy]

Ken, believe me, you and I are on the same page. If he has a fever tonight, I'm booking a flight.

If he doesn't, just heat up the thermometer a bit while Mrs. Monkey isn't looking.

Edit:

On another note, I just passed Ray in the lobby. Either he didn't recognize me or he ignored me. I suspect that the former is true.

[naamanf]

On the plane now.

Turns out k could have brought all my gear on the plane. Military gets 300lbs of free bagage. Good to know for next time.

[Nebby]

On the plane now.

Turns out k could have brought all my gear on the plane. Military gets 300lbs of free bagage. Good to know for next time.

And three bags vs two for free also

[tkam]

I'll be attempting to upload pertinent Canjam photos to my facebook throughout the weekend. you will need to add me if you want to see them. Jack Johnson, Mobile, AL.

facebook? :basement:

[The Monkey]

On the plane now.

Turns out k could have brought all my gear on the plane. Military gets 300lbs of free bagage. Good to know for next time.

naaman, you should tell Ray that you're milspec.

[postjack]

facebook? :basement:

I'd post them here if it was doable, but all I'll have is my iPhone.

[Iron_Dreamer]

On the plane now.

Turns out k could have brought all my gear on the plane. Military gets 300lbs of free bagage. Good to know for next time.

I left you my phone number on HF. Give me a call when you want to get your stuff. It is safe and sound with me until then

[Smeggy]

lucky bastards!

I hope you all have an awesome time there, think of us poor unfortunates as you party the night away

[guzziguy]

naaman, you should tell Ray that you're milspec.

Not unless you want your fingernails painted red.

Back on subject, I wandered down into the HeadRoom/Senn room. Tyll was setting up and just unpacking a pair of the pre-production HD800s that they had balanced. So I got to be the first ever (according to Tyll) to hear balanced HD800s. I listened to one of the HR demo CDs from a Wadia > HR Ultra DAC > HR Ultra Desktop with HR Ultra Power Supply.

The balanced HD-800 is sublime. It's not a wow kind of headphone, everything just sounds right. It has just the right amount of bass, soundstage was large but not overly so, midrange was neutral but not analytical and the highs sounded right. It's the fastest dynamic headphone that I've ever listened to.

Later I get to listen to a production, single-ended version of the HD800. I asked the Senn rep what the difference between pre- and production models were. He says that there are no acoustical differences and that the main difference is the paint. He says that further testing showed the original paint to not be robust enough. If the production version sounds as good (or better) as the pre-production version, my pre-order definitely stays in.

[Iron_Dreamer]

Wow, Ken, you lucky fool!

[guzziguy]

Yep, I'm pretty damn lucky. BTW, my pre-order stays in.

[Dusty Chalk]

Why couldn't you just take the balanced cable off the pre-production number and put it on the production number?

[guzziguy]

When I was listening to the balanced, they hadn't unpacked the production models yet. I've since gotten a listen to the production version in my set up, which is single-ended. As I've reported, I'm keeping my order in.

[naamanf]

Pays to show up bit early

About to get on the plane to LAX.

[Iron_Dreamer]

See you in a few hours!

[postjack]

at Mobile airport, flight leaves in 50 minutes.

[guzziguy]

Pays to show up bit early

About to get on the plane to LAX.

Definitely, I got free HeadRoom bourbon last night.

[n_maher]

Arrived ~11:30am, made it over to the hotel, promptly sat down in the Headroom room and after giving the Senn rep a short ration of shit about his shipping priorities I checked out the HD800s for 20 min or so on the new Balanced Ultra DAC and what I believe was the MAX balanced amp. The 800s are seriously good as was everything upstream. I'm going to try and spend more time with this setup tomorrow.

Then I ran into Dan, Vicki, Nums, Jacob, Jeff, Mike and Dom and had a short visit with them before leaving to hang out with my little sister. A double-double animal style has been consumed, now time to chill and give my liver some rest before tomorrow.