HFV Pune meet

[denom]

Hi all,

WHOA!!!! What a meet! Every year the Pune Meet seems to be getting better & better with huge turnout of old & new friends, lots of gears to play with & ofcourse having lots of fun too

I request all to keep patience w r t the data compilation from my end, as have yet to fully recover from the past 24 hours which had me in almost non-stop duracell bunny mode :lol: Will be putting up all the info on the gears tested/prices & observations on them ASAP.

I would firstly love to thank each & every member who was part of the meet & helped in making it a huge success.

Special thanks to:
Viki:
A big round of :clapping: & sincere thanks to our host Viki, who as always was the Host with a Big Big Heart! God Bless you & your family

Sonosphere
Our fearless MOC ( Not MC ) for keeping the tradition going & yet again guiding us through the schedule & organising a good meet. :clapping:

Cyclops1234
Ace photographer Lokesh, well done :clapping: Will be posting your pics shortly. You are a good person no doubt about it, thanks for being part of the meet

Mr.Zed
Our second photographer, you also deserve a round of :clapping: A passionate person who came all the way from satara on 2 wheels Hope you felt as part of our HFV family

Omishra
A true chela of Maha-Guru Nelson Pass !!! Really glad that I could finally meet you in person & really amazed with your creations! Keep the DIY flag flying high forever
Your passion was reflected through & through in your creations. Nothing more to say than :clapping:

Now, would like to personally thank the others & will do so as per the attendance list which is in alphabetical order :

Atharva :
Our chief guest who did not disappoint us Thanks for keeping your word & coming prepared with the King of Good Times hyeah: Appreciated by all of us (except the teetotallers ) Wish we had more time to catch up wrt your queries on audio. Next time for sure as you are already invited in advance for the next meet ! Cheers

Askii:
The one who lit the fire that ensured we had another rocking Pune Meet! Enjoyed your company & also your reactions to save some Speakers from committing suicide :lol:

Darshan Joshi:
You were the life of the car group Thanks for entertaining us all through the route to & fro + keeping all of us in splits. Glad you were part of the meet!

Devesh:
Sorry but did not interact much with you, next time hopefully. Thanks for coming

Flash(AKA) The 'King Of Gears - A - Plenty' :
As always we had some good discussions on all & sundry, exchanging notes on the gears & just having some good fun.

Hari Iyer:
Hope you gathered lots of info from the FM's & their reactions to your Speakers, during the meet. Keep the faith & take all the inputs especially the -ve ones +vely, as that is the only way forward for Krypton Audio.

Hemantwaghe:
Late latif & early exit too, not done !!!! Jokes aside, we had another good meet experience & learned from it as well.

Jamz4znik03:
Nice to have met you, hope you enjoyed the meet.

Jbgude:
Glad to meet you! Thanks for your suggestions for the next meets as well. Will keep you posted on the Group Buy. Hope you did not have to listen to the music once you reached home :lol:

Just4kix:
Really happy to have met you. Sorry we could not carry out HT demo during the course of the day, we shall plan a dedicated HT meet in the future

mbhangui:
Another person that I wanted to meet for a long time. Thanks for coming & bringing the Asus Essence 1. Sad that we could not interact more during the meet, next time for sure

Mubeen:
Deekay BOSE ka Sardar!!! Hope you enjoyed our meet & +vely took inputs on the 301's hyeah:

Pavan547:
Hope you enjoyed as much as the others. Sorry but did not interact much with you, next time hopefully. Thanks for coming

RahulP:
Sorry but did not interact much with you, next time hopefully. Thanks for coming

rohitmusic:
Hope the meet was a learning experience for you & sumed. Wish you the very best for your quest for a good music set-up.

Ruenigma:
Wonderful to catch up with you as always. We had some good fun during the meet & sure did keep a 'highly charged' tempo during the course of the meet Thanks for arranging the NAD/PSB Gears demo courtesy Rohit Enterprise, kindly convey our thanks to them on behalf of all the FM's.

reachbennym:
Sorry but did not interact much with you, next time hopefully. Thanks for coming

Sachin:
Always good to meet you during meets. Hope we can take up your offer of coming over to your place along with the gang for another type of meet :lol:

sagarvikram:
Dukhi aatma :lol: Hope you enjoyed the meet. Pls send me the pics that you took ASAP.

Sann:
Real pleasure to meet you & enjoyed your set-up, which was 1 of the stars of the meet. Congrats

Santy:
Always fun when we play together with the gears. Keep up the good work of moving your hands in the air & confusing 1 & all with the signals 1-2 or A/B or ...... hyeah: Hope you are feeling better today & have recovered completely

Spirovious:
Thanks for taking time out of your busy clinic schedule & coming this time for the Pune Meet. We sure had lots of fun @ other FM's expense :lol:

Sridhar-V:
Big thank you for taking time to bathe well/shave & wear 'Fresh' set of clothes You were the Hawaiian Man of the Group hyeah: Hope your friends medical issue went well.
Best Wishes!

Svaze:
Sorry but did not interact much with you, next time hopefully. Thanks for coming

Thecoolestone:
Big thanks for coming & driving me down to & fro the meet. Hope you enjoyed thoroughly. God Bless!

Theredcommando:
Thanks for being part of the meet. Your speakers were also 'mini-stars' of the meet. Hope you enjoyed.

vikoma:
Sorry, but we could not extensively test your ODAC & also comply to your request for certain demo requests. Will try our best to accommodate them during the next meet.
Best Wishes.

1235sam/nikhil/shailesh:
Sorry but did not interact much with all of you, next time hopefully. Thanks for coming

 

[avidyarthy]

wow ... that was big :clapping: ...and no absentees from the confirmed ones too. Great going guys! Hope ... somehow I can make it to the Mumbai one ... no tax on hoping, that is!

 

[corElement]

When is mumbai one lol? Still no ncr meet in sight.

 

[avidyarthy]

Some time in December, right Denom? Missing the dates now.
Core ... wanna come along? Lodging on me, IF I am able to make it.

 

[rohitmusic]

@ Tubes need 20-30 minutes of warmup to sound good.

@ The AP preamp has amazing holographic imaging.
@ The APs need to be partnered with suitable speakers and need the right environment to sound good.

@ Tubes need 20-30 minutes of warmup to sound good.
[rohit] - True.

@ The AP preamp has amazing holographic imaging.
[rohit] - It is really a pitty this could not be demoed well :| This make a world of difference.

@ The APs need to be partnered with suitable speakers and need the right environment to sound good.
[rohit]
Suitable speakers: Very true. This is a known precondition for the setup. Who knows a different set of speakers having good synergy would have had different listening impressions. Please read as "opportunity cost"

Room size: Yes, this is proven by fact that we needed to clock up the volume quite high. Uptill now I have never turned volume above 11 O' Clock position! So, room size definitely matters as expected!

It may very well be possible the configuration/setup could be root cause. This may be worth verifying before forming a general consensus and opinion about the amps in discussion.

Just jotting down points for FYI if they may be helpful.

Cheers!

 

[omishra]

Hi Spirovious

Pass B1 is not an Indian product. Its a buffer preamp DIY design by Nelson Pass. You can also buy one assembled from First Watt. It costs $995.

Yes, That's Nelson Pass's intellectual property. We are just provided other features like Low Noise PS, source selector, phono stage and LDR based volume control to it. You can say all of the PCB's were made in India except source selector.

 

[Santy]

Some pics from my side

Sorry they can't match the quality of SLRs.

 

[Santy]

More pics

 

[spirovious]

Hi Spirovious

Pass B1 is not an Indian product. Its a buffer preamp DIY design by Nelson Pass. You can also buy one assembled from First Watt. It costs $995.

Yes,the original design.I/we just got impressed by its Indian make. corrected the post.

 

[denom]

More Pics courtesy cyclops1234

 

[spirovious]

The APs need to be partnered with suitable speakers and need the right environment to sound good.

Agreed,but same applies to all other setups too.We got the results in untreated room(like home)which most of FM have.Synergy is another one. Same were my observations about Focals(didnt like) when connected to different setup other than B1 + Norge.

 

[denom]

 

[TheCoolestOne]

This meet rocked and I mean rocked.

A big thanks to Viki + Family for opening their house to us FMs for the meet. I havent met a larger hearted guy than Viki.

Thanks also to Denom and Sonos who ensured that the meet started on time and the show just went on till 2 am.

Santy, ruenigma and the other support team you guys rocked and ensured that things ran smoothly.

Also a big applause the all the FMs for this huge turnout of people and equipment.

For me, the highlights of the meet were with reference to the equipment / setup were two:

Firstly, the CA S30 and Panasonic BS41 LR. As the As the adage goes Good things come in small packages. They didnt disappoint and were what I would call an actual bang for the buck speakers. Though I did demo the BS41 at another FMs house some time back and was impressed this meet took them to a different level altogether. The S30 sounded well with the CA Amp.

Of course the star of the meet and highlight of the session was the Pass B1. Paired with the norge 1000 and Focals. This was one hell of a setup - it kicked butt. Period !! All other combos post that left me wanting for something more. Hats off to omishra fot the wonderful DIY. You're the Man. A lot of envy (joking) for sann I'm sure for having this setup to come home to each day.

Even the Electrocompaniet rocked the house and it was the first time I got an opportunity to listen to this great amp. I would have loved to hear the ProAc 100 with the Pass B1 but unfortunately the Pass B1 had left by then ?.

Last but not the least thanks to all the Mumbai FMs who gave me company in the car and made the journey enjoyable. Santy hope you're feeling better by now.

 

[corElement]

How did the proAC perform on amps apart from the electrocompaniet. Was the AW120 connected to other speakers aswell?

 

[darshanjoshi]

Last but not the least thanks to all the Mumbai FMs who gave me company in the car and made the journey enjoyable. Santy hope you're feeling better by now.

Hey Bro !! Special thanks to you. Your selfless and helpful approach has impressed me again and again.....

Picked up and dropped down all of us along with our gears, drove to and fro for 7 hrs in a span of 27 hrs with hardly 3 hrs sleep. :clapping::clapping:

 

[darshanjoshi]

Dont forget to thank our Chief Guest for some lovely Beers !!! hyeah::lol:

And the Viki's Almighty 15" Velodyne Sub. Could easliy take his house down if not his building. hyeah:

 

[Hiten]

Good to see everyone enjoyed the meet. In appreciations to all who made this possible ..

Wow ! lots of gear.. Fewer equipments based on some theme and good amount of listening would be a little more comprehensive. May be the next meet. All the best in life you people. Keep up the good work.

I see you people gave some solace to Mr. Vijay Mallya too. :lol:

Best regards

 

[Deleted member 17547]

Say hello to Viki..

 

[captrajesh]

Agreed,but same applies to all other setups too.We got the results in untreated room(like home)which most of FM have.Synergy is another one. Same were my observations about Focals(didn't like) when connected to different setup other than B1 + Norge.

I'm not saying that AP is super refined amp and thus would sound ordinary under sub optimal listening conditions but it sure would be more sensitive to the environment than the likes of Norge, if that is what it is pitted up against. I've heard Norge and am fairly well aware on where it stands. I agree on the synergy part though.

BTW, it is not clear on what the APs were paired with. It would help understand better on what could've caused the anomaly.

 

[spirovious]

It was good to see that my CA S30 got some audiophile's compliments. I found it to be very good in my environment(150 sqft room),

You will feel more proud after readng this-
http://www.avsforum.com/t/1327952/almost-got-floored-by-cambridge-s30/150
Post 168.He dared to compare S30 with Klipsch rf-35, Av123 rs250mkII, B&W 603 s1, Ascend cbm-170se.