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March 2007 Introduction
Introduction
- Themes - EMT
- Beyerdynamic
- Lake People
- Lehmann - Meier-
Klang Form
 Last
year the first
inaugural meeting of headphone listeners took place in the
Netherlands. This year great efforts were taken to get an even
bigger meeting in Germany. And then it happened. All in alll about
fifty people came to discuss, listen and exchange thoughts. I
had asked my son David to take some photographs and luckily he
came from Aachen to support me.
What I really appreciate about this kind of meetings is a very
friendly and relaxed atmosphere and the meet in Duesseldorf was
not different from the one in The Netherlands in this respect.
What I didn't like as far as this meeting was concerned was the
overall background noise. I found it hard to listen and _really_
judge what I heard, simply because the acoustical S/N-ratio was
far too bad...
Luckily for me the distance to travel was far shorter. Being located
in Cologne it just took me about an hour to get to the hotel where
the meeting took place.
 The
organizing team (Benjamin Seemann, Bernd Hehl and Reiner Grootenhuis,
not on one of these pictures) made a very good job in finding
a suitable location at reasonable cost. We had a mineral water
"flatrate" practically endless coffee and a nice snack
at lunchtime. Beyerdynamic and my own company contributed further
by sponsoring students and attendees with less income. The other
professional attendees contributed to the security cost.
 Here
are some attempts to capture the atmosphere of this historic (in
terms of headphone meets in Germany) event. Please understand
that as a commercial attendee my report may be somewhat flavoured
- and have fun! Headphones are getting more important in Germany...
 Absent
but not to be missed was any kind of snobism sometimes to be found
with people involved in audio. On the other hand there could have
been some more female attendees. (I guess there were only two.)
So there's still something to be done. Again there were many rather
young headphone listeners who came to be a part of the meeting.
This is always positive. |
Introduction
- Themes - EMT
- Beyerdynamic
- Lake People
- Lehmann - Meier-
Klang Form
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