It's the Christmas season, so I'm not really in a mood to belabor this. It's not a huge bummer, just a little thing, really. We all have much more important things to think about, things to celebrate hopefully and to be thankful for. Best to focus on those things.

I will say that this is a bump in the road that we can avoid, but we shouldn't have to. Audiokarma should have been more responsible in choosing the dates.

Last year, Audio Note complained about it because they're one of the companies that like to attend all of the shows. They could not be at two places at once, so sent Nellie (an independent distributor) to represent Audio Note. They asked that we all be responsive to their concerns and not choose overlapping dates for regional shows.

Then lo and behold, AK does it again and just says "sorry". That's uncool.

I realize how much work this is - thank you to the organizers. I'm one of the many people who is more interested in the small-shop hand-built stuff, as opposed to the $100k status symbols dominating RMAF.

If there is a steering committee, I'd be interested in helping out in whatever way.

But in the meantime there is nothing set at this point.