Philadelphia area audio club?

Rushton-
I thought I would cross-post to your thread from mine on the Southern New Jersey club. I would be interested in getting together with folks on your side of the Delaware River. My home and system are available as a location for some listening. Although I am somewhat limited in the total number of "seats" in my room for serious listening, a casual get together is always a great way to get to know folks as well. Please keep me in mind for any of your activities down the road. It's great to see so much interest in our neck of the woods!

Thanks Rushton for being such a great host to our first meeting. I'm still thinking of what a great time I had last Sunday.

I'm wondering what direction we should start heading now. I can think of having meetings that address one or more of the following:

1) Instructional (Examples: Find someone to show us how to position speakers/subwoofers properly, set up a turntable, etc.)

2) Informational (Examples: Someone discusses/demo's new products from a certain manufacturer)

3) Gathering at members' houses (We get to hear different people's systems and what they like/dislike about their gear)

The question is: How should be divide our meetings among those objectives? Obviously, meeting at different people's houses is the easiest, but the other possibilities offer their own rewards.

Comments?

Michael

Hello, my name is pete, and I'm a vinylholic.

It's been 4 years since I heard tubes and vinyl.

Back then I lived very close to a guy who had the mother of all tube/vinyl systems. We sat in the sweet spot and listened to music. It was not like these "audio club" meetings where everybody talks about the gear so nobody gets to listen to music.

But he was a dealer and his system was so much better than anything I ever heard at Soundex or Overture I found it impossible to visit without rationalizing ways to convince the wife how reasonable it is to own an auxillary high-pressure compressor on a cement pad outside the listening room wall for a record player that spun on a 75 psi air bearing and cost more than a BS from Penn State; and a set of class A tubed mono blocks that need a constant stream of water to keep them from burning the listening room to the ground and required dedicated 13kilavolt 6-nines copper powerlines strung directly from a PECO substation. I think I lost her when I told her we needed to bore holes in the living room wall so I could discharge the spent cooling water into the garden.

I joined a 12-step program and gave control of my life to a higher power (my wife). The kids' 509 plan is intact.

I am powerless over tubes and vinyl.

If anyone lives way way out in the NW suburbs, does SACD or CD, likes simple, pure, acoustic piano, guitar, vocals, classic jazz, with occasional outbursts of intense hard-core 60's-70's rock & roll, I'm there. Please have pity on me and leave the vinyl out of sight.

I know of someone online in a different context who goes by the moniker "Nerfherder", and I want to join in thanking Rushton for hosting our assembly.

Maybe it's time again to bring up the standing invite I'm pretty sure we have to the high end dealer in Wilmington. Would that be of interest? If so, we also need to know what kinds of times are good for people in case the preferred Sunday afternoon is not an option. I'll wait for some feedback here or off the list. Thanks. Hugh

I live in Delaware. Is that too far away? I design and build most of my own equipment.