LAOCAS/TSAV Zoom Meeting With HEDD Audio SAT. 8-15-20

With Covid 19 locking down California for events, The Source AV is partnering up with HEDD Audio and the LAOCAS to hold a Zoom event!




Date: Saturday, August 15, 2020 Time: 2-4 PM PST
Online @ The Source AV Design Group


Register in advance for this Zoom meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIodeyhrj0pGNFIZ-y_7cNff-iyEx8aAlDc

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Topics HEDD would like to cover:
• Roots and current Evolution of the Air Motion Transformer Technology: HEDD tweeter design, and more so: HEDDphone
• Our background in Pro Audio and what this means for our Consumer Audio strategy
• HEDDs approach to Active Speaker Systems
• Made in Germany approach

Presenters will be from Hedd Audio, producers of bespoke Headphones and Speakers from Germany

Dr. Frederik Knop
Founder & CEO

Klaus Heinz
Founder & CTO

More info https://www.hedd.audio/en/company/

Guests, visitors and new members are invited.

 

I guess PST?

 

Yup pst! Updated OP

 

My dad always bought groceries in such ridiculous abundance. At first I thought it was because he just had a compulsion for good deals, but then one day he was rambling about family in the olden days and he just casually mentions how hard it was growing up with 7 siblings... except WTF all my life I've only known about 5. It turns out two died from starvation when they were young. He then goes on to explain how their daily meal was a single watered down egg omelette and one bowl of rice, this was split between the 4 youngest kids, and grandma ate the scrapings from the bowl. At that point grandpa and the eldest child had gone to Canada to work.

So that's when I finally gained a shred of understanding of why dad is the way he is. I've been hungry before, I've done those 30hr famine fundraisers for school and church, but I've never been truly hungry. I've lived the poor student life, but I've never been "live on a spoonful of rice and a quarter egg a day". Dad will go out and buy a literal hundred pounds of potatoes on sale, and we'll spend the next six months eating it, or he'll cook up something for the church gatherings and feed 50 people at the drop of a hat. No one goes hungry. Ever. I grew up fat not because of junk food (well ok maybe that too), but simply eating too much homemade food. Such a stupid blessed life.

Mom is much the same too. She cooks even more than dad does. Then there's grandma, always sneaking cookies and snacks to the grandkids, and strangely telling us to hide it in our rooms. It took me a while to realize it's because in her world if you didn't hide your food, someone would steal it.

 

I was at church once and saw an old lady struggling to put her monobloc plastic chair in place. I walk over and try to help her only for her to yank it back and glare at me as if I'd insulted her. My dad, who'd been watching, laughed his ass off while I just stood there confused. It wasn't until he told me she probably thought that I was trying to take her seat that it clicked and I kicked myself (figuratively) for not thinking it might have been offensive. He told the entire family and I was the butt of a joke— sheltered kid being too detached from reality.

I've never been truly hungry beyond my choice either, my grandparents were a lot like Arma's parents. But to see others have no choice but to starve is horrifying. Before lockdown I saw some people who seemed too emaciated to be alive walking around the metro. I thought they were tree people back when I was a kid, their skin often looked so much like bark. There is a lot that a lot of people take for granted nowadays, but maybe a day will soon come when suffering from hunger no longer becomes a thing. God, I hope so.

This pandemic is ten shades of shit and too many people are hurting right now. But I guess there's solace to be had in that online hangouts are a bit easier from a logistical perspective for people far off. And yeah I'm off my soapbox now

 

This would be interesting to check out, except it starts at 5 AM my time ...

 

Back when I got started with audio in 2013, one of the first major show I attended was THE Show Newport. That was run by the LAOCAS and Richard Beers until he passed away in 2016. Heard the Schiit, Audeze, Sennheisers for the first time after reading about them on Head-Fi. My mind was blown, as a young college kid at the time I could not fathom the show in front of me. I did have some weird moments like being completely ghosted in one of the 2-channel rooms with literally me, another person, and the company rep. The rep did not talk to me for the 10 minutes I was in the room.

THE Show 2016 was pretty much the last good year of THE Show before it became a giant mess with the LA Audio Show and THE Show. At the 2016 show, I got hired on by Questyle, then a year later by TSAV.

Working with the LAOCAS I have some interesting stories and the members are super diverse. I believe it may be the biggest audio society in the USA least by pay/active members?

I remember one older retired customer I knew about. Super nice old dude. Had a Questyle QP1R dap and a variety of stuff. One day he calls my cell like minutes after we closed up the shop for the day and I was walking to my car. Familiar guy so I spoke with him for a while, why not. The call ended up taking an hour.

He bounced around a ton of topics and I had seen him often at shows, and at the store and was just super into audio. He asked me a kind of weird question and I was devastated after he told me a story. He wanted to know if using a higher quality micro usb cable would improve the sound quality when he moved music to the dap. The obvious answer was obviously no. He told me how he asked another audio dealer the same question and that guy told him yes and sold him a fancy $100 micro usb cable.

I was so upset at that dealer for trying to milk $100 from such a nice old man. One of the things about the LAOCAS is that most of the members are in the older/retired age demographic. Many may have been very successful and accumulated lots of wealth. But now that they are retired, they devoted so much time and money into audio they can't wait to share their love of the stuff to others.

 

Hey guys, here is the Zoom call we did with HEDD for those who wanted to check it out on Youtube