Anyone up for a UK diyAudio Meet?

[SimontY]

Originally posted by janneman
The spire of the local Chesterfield church after two days of LOUD sound...

Jan Didden

Very famous landmark, the crooked spire.

[Vikash]

Originally posted by SimontY
Do we have to wait a whole year??

That's a good question. If there's demand for another then I don't see why we can't have a winter meet as well. But them again we had six months leading up to this one, and where did it go?

[pinkmouse]

Originally posted by Vikash
...After swapping with Al's laptop using just the headphone output into his valve pre made a significant difference to my ears. Could it be the DAC in the EMU? Well we tried the valve pre on the end of the EMU and again it sounded much better - so it seems not. Valves? Maybe it was the distortion that sounded better? To be continued...

I'm tending towards the thought that perhaps the isolation transformers on the input of the heretical were the important bit...

I can't believe I missed the disco tunes! I have loads but didn't play them for fear of being laughed at...

I'm too old to care about being laughed at!

[janneman]

Originally posted by SimontY
Laptops, fine... Onboard sound - not so fine!!! Yes, we're definately talking DACs here. The output stage is a big deal in a CD player, so should it be in an offboard soundcard.

I've never heard onboard sound like Al's laptop was putting out (due to nice gear on the other end!) but naturally it was sorely lacking in detail, space, dynamics, proper treble, resolution etc.

Next year this won't happen. I will make sure of it! Already looking forward to the next meet!! Do we have to wait a whole year??

I agree. I can't think of a reason why laptop sound would be bad, as long as you use a decent (outboard) DAC. The digital bit stream from the player is with zero errors anyway, so if the DAC is allright, with low jitter etc, it should sound first class, or, more correct, it would show whatever was in the recording. That then becomes the limiting factor. And, believe me, there are LOTS of bad recordings out there for which the DAC, amp, speaker etc gets blamed.

Jan Didden

[pinkmouse]

Originally posted by Vikash
That's a good question. If there's demand for another then I don't see why we can't have a winter meet as well.

It's certainly not impossible...

[SimontY]

More meets!

[janneman]

... and finally, a scene I watched in the local hifi store there...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSINO...2Enl%2Fyoutube

Jan Didden

[SimontY]

Originally posted by janneman
... and finally, a scene I watched in the local hifi store there...

Jan Didden

Bad URL

[pinkmouse]

Originally posted by janneman
... and finally, a scene I watched in the local hifi store there...

Jan Didden

"The url contained a malformed video id."

[janneman]

Fixed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSINO...2Enl%2Fyoutube