Currawong
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Head-Fi Gear
- Headphone Inventory
- ✪ = Using regularly now
✪ Symphones Magnums (balanced with APSv3 cable)
✪ Sennheiser HD-800 (balanced with APSv3 cable)
✪ Stax Lambda Nova Signature
Stax SR-5NB Gold
✪ Grado HF-2 (balanced, with jumbo/bagel pads)
✪ Ultimate Ears Triple.fi 10 with Null Audio cable.
MB Quart QP55X (first ever high quality phones).
Sennheiser HD-424 (My father's vintage pair)
Gone:
Hifiman HE-5 (tough call, drew the short straw in the end)
Sennheiser HD600 with Zu cable. (displaced by HD-800s)
Etymotic ER6i (displaced by TF10s)
MB Quart QP250
Sennheiser HD-650 (Swapped for HD-600s)
Sennheiser PX200
Ultrasone Edition 9 w/APureSound V3 cable (D5000s were more fun in the end)
Denon D5000 (with mulga cups and full Markl mods but not re-cabled. HD-600s were better all-round)
Audio Technica ATH-A1000X
Borrowed or tried:
Stax Omega 1 (borrowed, wished I didn't have to return)
Stax SR-007 "Omega 2" MKI (borrowed, need to win the lottery for a Blue Hawaii or similar for them)
Stax SR-4070 (Vocal reproduction up there with R10 and HD-800)
Stax SR-003 (borrowed, biggest headphone bargain, period)
Audio Technica ESW10JPN (borrowed)
Audio Technica A2000X (in store)
Audio Technica W1000X (in store)
Audio Technica L3000 balanced (awesome bass, sucky everything else)
Audio Technica W1000 (in store)
Audio Technica W5000 (in store)
A bunch of other AT limited edition woodies.
Sony R10 (tried both bass light and bass heavy versions) - Headphone Amp Inventory
- ✪ Audiovalve RKV MKII (with Impedanzer and OPA627s)
✪ Audio-gd Phoenix
✪ Stax T1S (borrowed)
Fitz-modified Stax SRD-X.
Pico Slim (ordered)
Gone:
Luxman P-1 (borrowed, wish I'd bought one in the first place)
Stax 007t (borrowed long term)
Stax SR-717 (borrowed)
Meier Corda Move MK1
Little Dot MKV (seriously lacking power and clarity)
Audio-gd C2C (original version with silver hand-made case)
Audio-gd C2C upgrade version (with Goldpoint attenuator) - Source Inventory
- ✪ Apple MacBook Pro
✪ Audio-gd Reference 1 + Reference 3
Audio-gd Compass
Audio-gd FUN (with all modules)
✪ Onkyo DV-SP502 SACD player
✪ iPhone 3GS
iPod Classic 160 GB
iPod 2G Nano
✪ CryoParts PCLink II
Gone:
iPod 5G 30 GB
Northstar M192
Lavry DA-10
ZERO DAC w/HDAM
Apogee Duet
M-Audio Fast Track Pro (screw M-Audio's crap drivers)
Audiotrak Prodigy Cube (died)
Audio-gd Compass (Testers version)
Borrowed/tried:
Benchmark DAC 1
Marantz Project D-1
Assemblage DAC 3
Nakamichi Dragon DAC - Cable Inventory
- ✪ Van Den Hul Orchid XLR & RCA (Imagine the Nordost Valhalla for 1/10th the price)
Van Den Hul Thunderline XLR
✪ Van Den Hul The First Ultimate MKII RCA (used for digital mostly and sometimes analogue)
✪ Van Den Hul The Second RCA (used for digital)
Van Den Hul D300 w/DIY plugs
✪ SAEC SN-1903 RCA
Van den Hul Optocoupler
✪ Sony 3m Mini-Optical to Toslink cable
✪ Acoustic Research Toslink cable
✪ Canare BNC 75 Ohm digital cables
Audioquest Mini
Harmony Gold mini to RCA (some Dick Smith cable that isn't half bad).
Oyaide iPod LOD
Gone:
Nordost Heimdall XLR
Van Den Hul Flexicon RCA - Power-Related Components
- ✪ Silver Circle Audio Juice Box Jr.
✪ PS Audio xStream Statement (thanks Patrick82)
✪ DIY CryoParts CryoMax III power cable with Furutech plugs.
✪ Audio-gd power cables. - Other Audio Equipment
- ✪ Paradigm Titans
✪ Parasound Zamp
Airport Express
Koss Hold-A-Fone headphone desk hangers.
Some Kensington portable speaker thing which I use for teaching.
«Gone:»
Luxman LV-103U integrated amp
Bose Micro Music Monitors. (Forgive me Head-fi for I hath sinned) - Audio-Related Tweaks
- Herbies Ultrasonic Tube Dampers
Herbies cable dampers (experimenting with them) - Gear-Fi (Favorite Non-Audio Gear & Gadgets)
- MacBook Pro
Mac Mini
Nikon D80 with 18-200mm and 35mm lenses.
Panasonic HDC-SC5
XBox 360
About Me
- About Currawong
- Biography
- I'm an Australian living in western Japan. Computers became boring, so I got into head-fi instead.
- Location
- Fukuoka, Japan (was Australia)
- Interests
- Computers, hi-fi, gadgets.
- Occupation
- Fixing computers, building web sites and terrorising small Japanese children with English.
- Music Preferences
- Jazz, jazz and more jazz.
Mozart, Bach, Chopin and other classical.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
John Lee Hooker
Soundgarden
Stone Temple Pilots
Van Halen
Schpongle
Art of Noise
Moby
Amon Tobin
Ayub Ogada
Tom Waits
dZihan & Kamien
Too much else to mention right now. - Interests (non-headphone)
- Stax Baby/HF-2 baby (see pic) and the rest of my family.
Self-realisation (don't get me started).
I'm vegetarian, don't drink, smoke or take drugs (except coffee, which I really should quit).
- Head-Fi Gear
- Headphone Inventory
- ✪ = Using regularly now
✪ Symphones Magnums (balanced with APSv3 cable)
✪ Sennheiser HD-800 (balanced with APSv3 cable)
✪ Stax Lambda Nova Signature
Stax SR-5NB Gold
✪ Grado HF-2 (balanced, with jumbo/bagel pads)
✪ Ultimate Ears Triple.fi 10 with Null Audio cable.
MB Quart QP55X (first ever high quality phones).
Sennheiser HD-424 (My father's vintage pair)
Gone:
Hifiman HE-5 (tough call, drew the short straw in the end)
Sennheiser HD600 with Zu cable. (displaced by HD-800s)
Etymotic ER6i (displaced by TF10s)
MB Quart QP250
Sennheiser HD-650 (Swapped for HD-600s)
Sennheiser PX200
Ultrasone Edition 9 w/APureSound V3 cable (D5000s were more fun in the end)
Denon D5000 (with mulga cups and full Markl mods but not re-cabled. HD-600s were better all-round)
Audio Technica ATH-A1000X
Borrowed or tried:
Stax Omega 1 (borrowed, wished I didn't have to return)
Stax SR-007 "Omega 2" MKI (borrowed, need to win the lottery for a Blue Hawaii or similar for them)
Stax SR-4070 (Vocal reproduction up there with R10 and HD-800)
Stax SR-003 (borrowed, biggest headphone bargain, period)
Audio Technica ESW10JPN (borrowed)
Audio Technica A2000X (in store)
Audio Technica W1000X (in store)
Audio Technica L3000 balanced (awesome bass, sucky everything else)
Audio Technica W1000 (in store)
Audio Technica W5000 (in store)
A bunch of other AT limited edition woodies.
Sony R10 (tried both bass light and bass heavy versions) - Headphone Amp Inventory
- ✪ Audiovalve RKV MKII (with Impedanzer and OPA627s)
✪ Audio-gd Phoenix
✪ Stax T1S (borrowed)
Fitz-modified Stax SRD-X.
Pico Slim (ordered)
Gone:
Luxman P-1 (borrowed, wish I'd bought one in the first place)
Stax 007t (borrowed long term)
Stax SR-717 (borrowed)
Meier Corda Move MK1
Little Dot MKV (seriously lacking power and clarity)
Audio-gd C2C (original version with silver hand-made case)
Audio-gd C2C upgrade version (with Goldpoint attenuator) - Source Inventory
- ✪ Apple MacBook Pro
✪ Audio-gd Reference 1 + Reference 3
Audio-gd Compass
Audio-gd FUN (with all modules)
✪ Onkyo DV-SP502 SACD player
✪ iPhone 3GS
iPod Classic 160 GB
iPod 2G Nano
✪ CryoParts PCLink II
Gone:
iPod 5G 30 GB
Northstar M192
Lavry DA-10
ZERO DAC w/HDAM
Apogee Duet
M-Audio Fast Track Pro (screw M-Audio's crap drivers)
Audiotrak Prodigy Cube (died)
Audio-gd Compass (Testers version)
Borrowed/tried:
Benchmark DAC 1
Marantz Project D-1
Assemblage DAC 3
Nakamichi Dragon DAC - Cable Inventory
- ✪ Van Den Hul Orchid XLR & RCA (Imagine the Nordost Valhalla for 1/10th the price)
Van Den Hul Thunderline XLR
✪ Van Den Hul The First Ultimate MKII RCA (used for digital mostly and sometimes analogue)
✪ Van Den Hul The Second RCA (used for digital)
Van Den Hul D300 w/DIY plugs
✪ SAEC SN-1903 RCA
Van den Hul Optocoupler
✪ Sony 3m Mini-Optical to Toslink cable
✪ Acoustic Research Toslink cable
✪ Canare BNC 75 Ohm digital cables
Audioquest Mini
Harmony Gold mini to RCA (some Dick Smith cable that isn't half bad).
Oyaide iPod LOD
Gone:
Nordost Heimdall XLR
Van Den Hul Flexicon RCA - Power-Related Components
- ✪ Silver Circle Audio Juice Box Jr.
✪ PS Audio xStream Statement (thanks Patrick82)
✪ DIY CryoParts CryoMax III power cable with Furutech plugs.
✪ Audio-gd power cables. - Other Audio Equipment
- ✪ Paradigm Titans
✪ Parasound Zamp
Airport Express
Koss Hold-A-Fone headphone desk hangers.
Some Kensington portable speaker thing which I use for teaching.
«Gone:»
Luxman LV-103U integrated amp
Bose Micro Music Monitors. (Forgive me Head-fi for I hath sinned) - Audio-Related Tweaks
- Herbies Ultrasonic Tube Dampers
Herbies cable dampers (experimenting with them) - Gear-Fi (Favorite Non-Audio Gear & Gadgets)
- MacBook Pro
Mac Mini
Nikon D80 with 18-200mm and 35mm lenses.
Panasonic HDC-SC5
XBox 360
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Signature
- "The trouble with most people is not what they don't know, but what they know for certain that isn't true." -- Mark Twain
Mac → Audio-gd Reference 3+1 → Audio-gd Phoenix, Audiovalve RKV MKII or Stax T1S → Sennheiser HD-800, Symphones Magnums, Grado HF-2 (all balanced) or Stax Lambda Nova Signature
Head-fi Blog: What can portable amps accomplish?, Spectrum showing the terms we use in audio, Sufficient Volume vs. Sufficient Amping & Critical Listening.
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Posted in FAQs & Summaries
WalkGood has written up a good summary about portable amps, and what they can or cannot do in the Why bother with portable amps? thread. It's important as people seem to have the mistaken impression that an amp and expensive LOD will give them some kind of audio nirvana, when a better pair of IEMs is really what they need.
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I’ve been using a portable amp over 2 years now and in June of last year I decided to post my opinion on abi about “What Can Portable Amps Accomplish?,” below is
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There's a handy thread here with a bit more explanation than one usually gets. From it:
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Originally Posted by eucariote
Square waves are actually made up of an infinite series of sine waves (sum of odd multiples of the harmonic), that gradually drop off in amplitude as they get smaller. Since materials with mass and elasticity oscillate and do not just assume some spatial position in proportion to an applied magnetic force, I believe that the graphs show the degree that all of those frequencies don't happen exactly
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I realised when making a post just now that I haven't written much anywhere on comparisons I've done with my Phoenix to other high-end amps. I've only had experience with 3, including the Phoenix, so I wouldn't regard myself as knowledgeable. I bought an Audiovalve RKV from another Head-fier because I was keen to find out what high-end tube amps were capable of. At present I'm using it as a speaker amp of all things, using the impedance adaptor, and the Phoenix as a pre-amp to it (and a kind of...
I remember a while back finding information in the forums on this DIY amp was troublesome, as searching for "M^3" doesn't work and, as well, it's referred to as the "MMM" and "M3". So, without further ado, courtesy of a couple of other Head-fiers, here is a list of M^3 threads:
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Posted in DIY
From time-to-time someone wants to get into DIY'ing their own gear, but doesn't know where to begin. Learning to solder is a good start, along with some electrical circuit basics. Some good suggestions for resources for this have been suggested by people in this thread which is worth book-marking for future reference.
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