Interests

Photography, electronics, gardening, food, planned obsolescence & sustainability

Headphone Inventory

Sennheiser HD540, HD560, HD650, HD800, HD250, HD250 II

Headphone Amp Inventory

Lehmann Linear
Marantz HD-DAC1
DIY designed & build desktop/portable amp (1992, loosely based on NAD1020 pre-amp high output section), fully re-capped Nov 2013

Source Inventory

Marantz SA11S3 CD player
Marantz CD80 CD player (1989), fully re-capped Oct 2013, DEXA & OPA627 opamp roll
Marantz CD80 CD player (1990), fully re-capped Nov 2013, DEXA & OPA627 opamp roll
Fiio X1 II
Technics SL-XP1 portable CD player (wish they still made them like that!)
Technics SL-XPS900 portable CD player
Seagate Backup Slim external USB harddrive(s) with all my CDs ripped as .wav files. I picked these ones as they are mechanically extremely quiet (very important when you are sitting right next to them enjoying Kenji Kawai's Ghost In The Shell soundtrack on open cans).

Cable Inventory

Atlas Equator
Eringa 302 (Kudos to anyone recognising these! (Dad, not you...)
DIY XLR (Shark/Neutrik)
Shark speaker cables
Cheap Maplin TOSLINK interconnect

Other Audio Equipment

Marantz PM11S3 stereo integrated amp
2 Spendor S3/5R2 sealed-box 2-way monitor speakers

Technics SU-V2A stereo integrated amp (1980-ish, venerable SVISTK8040), fully recapped Jan 2014
2 KEF Chorale sealed box 2-way speakers (1972), re-capped, re-cabled, re-glued & repainted Aug 2014

Music Preferences

15th, 16th & 17th Century European, Turkish, Armenian / Sephardic music (Jordi Savall HXXI) / J.S. Bach / Marin Marais
Japanese & Chinese trad. instrumental
Japanese Rock: BAND-MAID / ASTERISM / Gordon / detroit7 / GLIM SPANKY / Hitsujibungaku / paranoid void
Japanese Fusion/blues/pop: BimBamBoom / Wang Dang Doodle / Mr.MOMIJI BAND / KAHORI / Ki&Ki / Susumu Hirasawa / Musashi / Sarah Maeda / Joe Hisaishi / Kenji Kawai
Western Rock/Pop etc: Throwing Muses / Kristin Hersh / KYUSS / Cecile Corbel / Dead Can Dance / Cocteau Twins / Slowdive & Mojave 3 / Neil Halstead / Lush / Tom Waits / JJ Cale / Captain Beefheart / various 4AD Indie / Tinariwen / Lana del Rey / Patty Gurdy / London Grammar

Gender

Male

Gear-Fi

Late 70's Minolta Cameras

Occupation

Something very interesting to me, very boring to others. UPDATE: I actually became bored with it as well...