Dallas audiophiles
Joey_V
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If interested and local, we have a big club in Dallas Ft Worth area.
PM me if interested.
We meet in-person about 6x per year.
And currently we are also planning on concurrent 6 Zoom meets per year as well.
Last Zoom meeting, we had Michael Fremer as our special guest. For the next 4 to 5 Zoom meetings, I have already lined up some special guests who are audiophile household names.
We have approximately 40 members.
Thx,
JV
PM me if interested.
We meet in-person about 6x per year.
And currently we are also planning on concurrent 6 Zoom meets per year as well.
Last Zoom meeting, we had Michael Fremer as our special guest. For the next 4 to 5 Zoom meetings, I have already lined up some special guests who are audiophile household names.
We have approximately 40 members.
Thx,
JV
Magico, JL, Emm, ARC Ref 10 line, ARC Ref 10 phono, VPI, Lyra, Boulder, AQ Wel, SRA Scuttle Rack, Bluesound
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Very cool Joey.Political Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
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Wish I were closer. Would like to meet some of the members in this area.
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In. I am in process with design folks to build another three or so rooms for audio and home theater. I could sure use some input with these get togethers.
Let me know.
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Cool! Do you have a spare bedroom???Gustard X26 Pro DAC
Belles 21A Pre modded with Mundorf Supreme caps
B&K M200 Sonata monoblocks refreshed and upgraded
Polk SDA 1C's modded / 1000Va Dreadnaught
Wireworld Silver Eclipse IC's and speaker cables
Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)
There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus -
Is there any reason that some folks from outside the DFW area couldn’t partake in the “gatherings” if they’re being conducted on Zoom?
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teekay0007 wrote: »Is there any reason that some folks from outside the DFW area couldn’t partake in the “gatherings” if they’re being conducted on Zoom?
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I won't speak for Joey, but the cost and complexity of running a zoom for 20 people who have mostly met in person vs say 100+ strangers across the company are vastly different. Just speaking from personal experience at work.
The club is organized by a few people as a hobby, not someone's day job.Analog: MoFi MasterTracker > MoFi UltraDeck > Sutherland 20/20
Digital: Cambridge CXC / Streaming > Cambridge CXN v2
MastersounD Dueventi > Rosso Fiorentino Certaldo or Arcam rHead > Hifiman HE4XX
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I wish we had something like that here in Central FL.
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I wish we had something like that here in Central FL.
Yeah I hear ya. When I started the club 4 years ago, I felt the same way. No club in all of Dallas. It didn’t make sense to me as it’s a pretty large metroplex. I see several have tried to start a club here but it always kinda just petered out. We got lucky when I started the club, it kinda just kept going and with the number of members we have now and the participation, I don’t see it stopping. We are closing in on 45 members. We have everything from Audio Research, Boulders, CH, Rockports, Levinsons, MBL, Wilson, Bowers, Focals, Sonus, Magnepans, Gryphon, Tidal Akiras, DCS, Emm, Lampizators, Esoteric, and many more. Best part of the club is the ability to hear many combinations and even borrow gear from members. Not to mention benefitting from the knowledge of more experienced members (example Willie teaching me about record cleaning machines).
The club is significantly tilted towards the higher end of the spectrum (I seek out the more esoteric and extreme systems in the city and get them to join) but we are an equal opportunity membership, we also have a couple college members who want some exposure to high end... though Willie and I are among the youngest. Main thing I look for is camaraderie. No snobs allowed.
Don’t you guys have a Tampa Bay Audio Society? Is that close enough to central FL?
Of note, our next Zoom is with Dan D’Agostino. 3/22.
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If you’re interested in starting a club in your own city, instead of just posting on a forum that you wanna join or form a club, make an active effort.
I found the ingredients to a successful club is a diverse group (not just the same brand people), a good amount of really high end systems (people like to meet up and listen to things they haven’t heard seen or are accustomed to), a way to further camaraderie (I have dinner at a restaurant after meets for example), and have a strong leadership (make an effort to further the interests of the group).
One way to find people in your area? I found it very easy to find others in the area (especially higher end folks) through audiogon for sale ads. Filter using zip code. When I found an ad for say a Wilson or Rockport or another high end product, I would just message the user and see if he was interested in meeting up or being part of a group or just talking about audio. After a while, the member count builds up and the meets start rolling organically.
Only issue I found with higher end folk is a lot of the really affluent people are busy, so they don’t make it out regularly to meets. And some higher end folks can also be recluse... so they don’t like to entertain a group. But on the flip side, I found higher end audiophiles to be also have a very addicting personality... which means once you make regular contact, the fun for the club begins as equipment changes roll in, it’s easy to make meets to compare equipments such as Dac wars, etc.... the higher end audiophile also have large homes where a dozen or 2 can meet, and they usually egg each other to keep the new and interesting gear rolling in for the group to audition and hear.
In addition, I also found that aside from equipment, one big ingredient to keeping the group interest is music sharing. It’s easy to keep each other’s interests via recommendations of great LPs, pressings, etc.
Overall, I recommend you to seek out a group in your local area and if there isn’t one, think about building one. It makes this rather solitary hobby much more interesting and you make friends with people who you wouldn’t have ever crossed paths with. You further your knowledge and your experience increases several-fold.Magico, JL, Emm, ARC Ref 10 line, ARC Ref 10 phono, VPI, Lyra, Boulder, AQ Wel, SRA Scuttle Rack, Bluesound -
@Joey_V can you sign me up. I just moved to the DFW area. PM sent
- Living Room Music-2.1 Polk Legend L800 | SVS SB1000Pro | McIntosh C70 | McIntosh MA5200 (Treble) | McIntosh MC452 (Bass) | Sublimeacoustic K231 Active xover | Denon DP-2500A | Denafrips Ares II | Marantz HD-CD1 | Belkin Soundform Connect | iPad Pro USB to DAC
- Home Theater-9.7.6/15.1 (Atmos/Auro-3D) Polk LSiM707, LSiM706c, LSiM702 F/X [x6], Height LSiM703 [x6], HSU ULS-15Mk2x4, VTF-15HMk2x2, VTF-TN1 | Trinnov Altitude 16+4 (2024) | Rotel RB-1590 (L/R) | Appollon NC500 11ch | Martin Logan MP500x2 | Topping DX7s, E50 | AppleTV 4K | Zidoo Z9X | JVC RS2100 | 150” Elite Screen Acoustic Pro UHD
- Game Room-5.1 Polk LSi25, LSiC, LSiF/X | Marantz SR7009 | AppleTV 4K | Sony UBP-X800 | Xbox One S | Sony PS2, PS3 | Nintendo Wii | Gaming PC | Sony 75" LCD
- Master Bedroom Music-2.0 Totem Hawk | Marantz PM-10 | Marantz SA-10 | SONY PS-HX500
- Office-2.1 B&W Formation Duo and Bass
- Orphans Ascend Acoustics Sierra LX | DSW microPRO3000x2 | Rotel RA-1570 | Marantz AV8805A
- Daughter's Bedroom 1-2.0 TBD Martin Logan Forte | Roku TV
- Guest Room 2-2.0 Klipsch RP-600M | SMSL DO100 Pro 2 | Pass ACA v1.6 Monoblocks
- Guest Room 3-3.0 Martin Logan Motion 40, 50XT | Onkyo TX-SR705 | Apple TV | Samsung 55" TV
- Guest Room 4-2.0 QAcoustics 3030i | Sansui AU-6900 | Sansui FR-1080 | Fire TV
- Maintenance: Pro-Ject VC-S Record Cleaning Machine
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Had a great time at the meet up yesterday and heard a great setup.Yamaha RX-A2070, Musical Fidelity M6si integrated amp, Benchmark Dac1, Bluesound NODE 2i, Audiolab 6000CDT CD Transport, Parasound Zphono USB Phono Preamp, Fluance RT85, Ortofon 2M Bronze, Polk L600's, L400, L900's, RC80i's, SVS 3000 Micro, Audioquest Interconnects and Digital Cables, Nordost Silver Shadow Digital Cable, Cullen Gold and Crossover Series Power Cables, Douglas Connection Alpha 12AWG OCC Speaker Cables, Douglas Connection Alpha Analog Interconnect Cables, Douglas Connection Alpha 11 OCC Custom Power Cable, Signal Power Cable, Furman PL-8C 15 Power Conditioner, Sony 65" 900F, Sony UBP-X700, Fios, Apple TV 4K, Audioquest Chocolate HDMI Cables.
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@Joey_V can you sign me up. I just moved to the DFW area. PM sent
Hey!
Were you at the meet? Remind me if I have not yet reached out to you, there are just so many.
Our next meet is 10/22.
Thx
JVMagico, JL, Emm, ARC Ref 10 line, ARC Ref 10 phono, VPI, Lyra, Boulder, AQ Wel, SRA Scuttle Rack, Bluesound -
DFWAC Live Meet #25
10/22/22
20 signed up
Will be 2 sessions
Session 1: 11am-2pm
Session 2: 1pm-4pmMagico, JL, Emm, ARC Ref 10 line, ARC Ref 10 phono, VPI, Lyra, Boulder, AQ Wel, SRA Scuttle Rack, Bluesound -
DFWAC Live Meet #26:
12/17/22, Saturday
Max allowed 20
Magico, JL, Emm, ARC Ref 10 line, ARC Ref 10 phono, VPI, Lyra, Boulder, AQ Wel, SRA Scuttle Rack, Bluesound -
DFW Audiophile Club # 26
Full guest list
5p-10p
Wilson Alexx, Jeff Rowland, DCS, Sub SwarmMagico, JL, Emm, ARC Ref 10 line, ARC Ref 10 phono, VPI, Lyra, Boulder, AQ Wel, SRA Scuttle Rack, Bluesound -
Dfwac 28
Zoom with Mike Lavigne
3/28/23
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Joey, how about getting your group to set up a room at Lone Star Audio Fest?Amplifiers: Norma IPA 140, MasterSound Compact 845, Ayre v6xe, Consonance Cyber 800
Preamp: deHavilland Ultraverve 3
Dac: Sonnet Morpheus 2, Musical Paradise mp-d2 mkIII
Transport: Jay's Audio CDT2 mk2, Lumin U1 mini
Speakers: Rosso Fiorentino Volterra II
Speaker Cables: Crystal Clear Magnum Opus 2, Organic Audio Organic Reference 2
Interconnects: Crystal Clear Magnum Opus 2, Argento Organic Reference 2, Argento Organic 2
Power Cables: Argento Organic Reference, Synergistic Research Foundation 10 and 12 ga.
Digital cables: Crystal Clear Magnum Opus 2 bnc, Tellurium Q aes, Silnote Audio Poseidon Signature 2 bnc
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Joey, how about getting your group to set up a room at Lone Star Audio Fest?
That’s a fun idea. Just wonder who’s going to volunteer their gear.Analog: MoFi MasterTracker > MoFi UltraDeck > Sutherland 20/20
Digital: Cambridge CXC / Streaming > Cambridge CXN v2
MastersounD Dueventi > Rosso Fiorentino Certaldo or Arcam rHead > Hifiman HE4XX
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One of Joey's six systems
Amplifiers: Norma IPA 140, MasterSound Compact 845, Ayre v6xe, Consonance Cyber 800
Preamp: deHavilland Ultraverve 3
Dac: Sonnet Morpheus 2, Musical Paradise mp-d2 mkIII
Transport: Jay's Audio CDT2 mk2, Lumin U1 mini
Speakers: Rosso Fiorentino Volterra II
Speaker Cables: Crystal Clear Magnum Opus 2, Organic Audio Organic Reference 2
Interconnects: Crystal Clear Magnum Opus 2, Argento Organic Reference 2, Argento Organic 2
Power Cables: Argento Organic Reference, Synergistic Research Foundation 10 and 12 ga.
Digital cables: Crystal Clear Magnum Opus 2 bnc, Tellurium Q aes, Silnote Audio Poseidon Signature 2 bnc
Puritan PSM156 -
Mike is a great person and definitely a heavy hitter in good sound/knowledge. Many folks could learn quite a bit from him and he's about as humble as they come, especially given his setup. It's great that you will be doing a Zoom with him!
I sincerely admire his passion for high fidelity audio.
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
Dfwac live meeting 29
Flowers
4/26/23
6p
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Flowers was a success.
He is one lucky man. I’ve already bought lottery tickets to try and join his rarified air.
Two club polk members were signed up but one had a last minute pivot, but old faithful Willie was around.
Some pics.
And dinner was excellent.
Magico, JL, Emm, ARC Ref 10 line, ARC Ref 10 phono, VPI, Lyra, Boulder, AQ Wel, SRA Scuttle Rack, Bluesound -
Next meet:
DFWAC 30: Terry’s house in Plano, May 13, 2023
Full rsvp list
Full CH and Steinheim and dual Rel 25
And a Vpi avenger
Ear popping was the last thought I recall when I heard it.Magico, JL, Emm, ARC Ref 10 line, ARC Ref 10 phono, VPI, Lyra, Boulder, AQ Wel, SRA Scuttle Rack, Bluesound -
Great looking room, bet it sounds wonderful. -
Great looking room, bet it sounds wonderful.
Yeah - I like the sound of the room very much. The XVX was very nice. Very.
Very lucky and successful double doctor couple
19,000 sq foot estate
The equipment room is behind the front wall
Magico, JL, Emm, ARC Ref 10 line, ARC Ref 10 phono, VPI, Lyra, Boulder, AQ Wel, SRA Scuttle Rack, Bluesound -
DFWAC Meet 30 complete!
Terrys CH and Stenheim and Kodo The Beat Table were all great!
Thanks also goes to Willie for the Beef Beisket that he smoked!
Magico, JL, Emm, ARC Ref 10 line, ARC Ref 10 phono, VPI, Lyra, Boulder, AQ Wel, SRA Scuttle Rack, Bluesound -
Next Meet: DFWAC 31 is Magico and Estelon Days at SW, 6/24-25Magico, JL, Emm, ARC Ref 10 line, ARC Ref 10 phono, VPI, Lyra, Boulder, AQ Wel, SRA Scuttle Rack, Bluesound
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Great sounding system!Yamaha RX-A2070, Musical Fidelity M6si integrated amp, Benchmark Dac1, Bluesound NODE 2i, Audiolab 6000CDT CD Transport, Parasound Zphono USB Phono Preamp, Fluance RT85, Ortofon 2M Bronze, Polk L600's, L400, L900's, RC80i's, SVS 3000 Micro, Audioquest Interconnects and Digital Cables, Nordost Silver Shadow Digital Cable, Cullen Gold and Crossover Series Power Cables, Douglas Connection Alpha 12AWG OCC Speaker Cables, Douglas Connection Alpha Analog Interconnect Cables, Douglas Connection Alpha 11 OCC Custom Power Cable, Signal Power Cable, Furman PL-8C 15 Power Conditioner, Sony 65" 900F, Sony UBP-X700, Fios, Apple TV 4K, Audioquest Chocolate HDMI Cables.
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Which one?
Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
Terry's, the last pictures posted. I didn't go to the other meet.Yamaha RX-A2070, Musical Fidelity M6si integrated amp, Benchmark Dac1, Bluesound NODE 2i, Audiolab 6000CDT CD Transport, Parasound Zphono USB Phono Preamp, Fluance RT85, Ortofon 2M Bronze, Polk L600's, L400, L900's, RC80i's, SVS 3000 Micro, Audioquest Interconnects and Digital Cables, Nordost Silver Shadow Digital Cable, Cullen Gold and Crossover Series Power Cables, Douglas Connection Alpha 12AWG OCC Speaker Cables, Douglas Connection Alpha Analog Interconnect Cables, Douglas Connection Alpha 11 OCC Custom Power Cable, Signal Power Cable, Furman PL-8C 15 Power Conditioner, Sony 65" 900F, Sony UBP-X700, Fios, Apple TV 4K, Audioquest Chocolate HDMI Cables.
