That's more for the Head-Fi crowd. Here on WBF you mostly have old people who think that when the speaker-oriented hi-fi dies out, the high end dies. Without recognizing that the future of the high end, in the hands of young people, lies in the headphone business:
CanJams are about much more than skull-testing the newest headphones. They are the best places for all audiophiles to audition innovations in amplification, file servers, and digital converters and to jabber and bond with students, hipsters, gamers, and brainiacs from every part of the...
I mentioned in my CanJam NYC intro that CanJams offer more than just networking and headphone auditions. (You can read part 2 here.) They are also good places, I noted, to access the house sound of virtually every good DAC and amplifier that will fit on a tabletop.