Amictus
It's a dangerous world. Trust no-one! Music is the only safe place, apart from the rabbit hole.
- Interests
- Classical music. And a lot of other music.
Food. Wine (Burgundy). Languages (French, German). Literature.
Languages, especially French (very good) and German (very bad), poetry, literature., more wine, food.
- Headphone Inventory
- Hifiman HE-500
AKG812 Pro (Made in Slovakia)
AKG Q701 black (Made in Austria)
AKG K712 Pro (Made in Slovakia)
Sennheiser HD800
Sennheiser HD 650
Grado GH1
Grado PS500
Grado RS1i with red drivers (early RS1e)
Grado SR60
Shure E4C-N.
Bose Triport IE.
- Headphone Amp Inventory
- Lehmann Linear SE
Woo Audio WA6-SE
Schiit Lyr with too many tubes to list but Siemens and Telefunken E88CCs and the Siemens E288CCs are the best.
Schiit Vali
Lovely Cube Premium Headphone amplifier
Chord TT
Chord Hugo
Chord Hugo 2
Chord Mojo
- Source Inventory
- Linn LP12 Klimax
Linn LP12 Akurate (roughly - Kore, Trampolin 2, Cirkus, Ittok LVII)
Dynavector DV20X2L
Thorens TD160 Super with SME 3009 III arm
Shure V15-V cartridgeOppo 105
Schiit Gungnir upgraded to mutibit
Audiolab M-DAC
Meridian Explorer
Naim NDX
Chord TT, Hugo, Hugo 2, Mojo
Project 6 Perspex with Ortofon Cadenza Blue
Computers, including an iMac 2015, a Mac Mini 2015, a MacBook Pro 13" 2015 with JRiver and Audirvana Plus and Amarra.
Microsoft Surface Pro 2
Sony NWZ-Z1060 Android powered Walkman
iPod Classic 120GB.
iPod Nano 8GB.
iPhone 6S Plus
Audiolab 8000A amp.
Audiolab M-DAC.
Oppo BD-103EU with Russ Andrews PowerKord-300 power cable
Naim Uniti2 (bedroom)
- Cable Inventory
- Cardas Clear (3m) for HD800
Q cable (3m) for HE-500
Russ Andrews cable upgrade for Q701
Russ Andrews cable upgrade for HD 650
Kimber Kable Silver Streak interconnect for Gungnir to Linear SE
Chord Cadenza cable for Gungnir to Lyr
Russ Andrews D-60 digital interconnect for Oppo to Gungnir
Russ Andrews Powerkord-300 mains cables for the Oppo 103, Gungnir and Linear SE
Audioquest Cinnamon USB cable for laptop to Gungnir
Several Chord Shawline cables
- Other Audio Equipment
- Quad 44/405 pre-power combination
B&W 802s (first generation)
Naim CD5i
Schitt Mani phono pre-amp
Audiolab 8000-A amp
Audiolab 8000CDM transport
Audiolab 8000DAC
Proac Reference 1 loudspeakers
PMC 20.21 speakers (bedroom)
- Music Preferences
- Classical: Wagner, Mahler, Bruckner, Brahms, Schubert, Shostakovich, Debussy, Stravinsky, Berg, Sibelius, Boulez, Bach, Mozart, Haydn...
Leonard Cohen
Van Morrison
Tom Waits
French Chanson
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Retired
Signature
I believe that the justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men... The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenalin but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.
Glenn Gould
New Linn LP12 Sondek owner. Keel. Ekos SE. Radikal Klimax. Naim phono stage. Lyra Kleos SL. Cymbiosis build.
Glenn Gould
New Linn LP12 Sondek owner. Keel. Ekos SE. Radikal Klimax. Naim phono stage. Lyra Kleos SL. Cymbiosis build.
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