Interests

eating......

Headphone Inventory

Hifiman HE-6 with HE Adaptor

Audeze LCD-2 Rev 2 Rosewood with DIY balanced silver cable

FAD Pandora Hope VI : why the Japanese put a locking mechanism on the detachable cable? Anyway, sold it after a month. Recently terminated balanced cable for friend

Hifiman HE-500 : why woman cannot stand the sound leaked from it, it was designed like that (SOLD)

AKG K701 : balanced

Shure SE535LTD RED : anything wrong with a guy wearing red? next time I get a red custom cable for it

Yamaha EPH-100 : where I put it?

few old earphones from Sony Walkman : missed those college days

Headphone Amp Inventory

Topping TP22 : takes it balanced output (via speaker taps) for HE-500, but input is still singled end... SOLD

iBasso PB2 : Hirose connector termination is such a pain. However, it powered by Hiflight kits . SOLD

Maverick D1 : takes its tube-out for home Hi Fi, loaded with WE 396A

Topping TP60 : hmmmmmm, SOLD

Audio Space Houston Mini 1998 SE EL84 tube amp : came with headphone out, but only take its speaker out via resistor network

Yulong A28 : balanced out paired very good with LCD 2.2 and HE-500, but its high / low SE out suck SOLD

Schiit Mojo : a lot better than Yulong A28 SOLD

Matrix HPA-3B class A : required opamps swapping for better sound SOLD

Bryston BHA-1

TDA7297 Chipamp speaker out to balanced terminated headphone

Source Inventory

iBasso DX50 : should I upgrade to DX90?

iBasso DB2 : hopefully can find L shape Hirose connector to replace the straight connector SOLD

Matrix Mini-i Pro (2014) : the driver for 2015 model worked on 2014, add support for DSD256

iFi Nano iDSD SOLD

Korg DS-DAC-100 (SOLD)

TDA1541A S1 DIY Balanced DAC

DSD1796 x2 DIY Balanced DAC

Denafrips Pontus R2R Balanced DAC

Krell SBP-64X

Cayin IDAP-6

Cable Inventory

any good cable will do, regardless pure silver, spc, occ, ofc, single core, 7 strands, 19 strands bla bla bla. I don't have golden ear but I definitely got wooden ear

Power-Related Components

DIY isolation transformer in balanced mode

Other Audio Equipment

Krell MD-1
Tanyu CDM3 CDT
Sonic Frontiers Line 1 6922 tube preamp
Parasound Halo A21 balanced poweramp
Magnepan 1.6QR planar speaker
6922 Balanced Tube Preamp
Sony WM-FX777 : I still keep it, but rechargeable battery die..
Yamaha CD-N500 : takes it ability to play hi-res audio file and internet radio
Yamaha A-S700 : you do need an amp to drive speaker (sold)
Audio Space Houston Mini 1998 SE
Musical Fidelity Typhoon balanced poweramp
KEF Q300 : if no speaker then no point to get player and amp
X-LS Encore : cheaper but better than KEF (SOLD)
Mordaunt Short Mezzo 8 (SOLD)
B&W CDM1
PSB Alpha LR1 : free out from R.I.P. Z5500
Logitech Z5500 : R.I.P. together with PS3 (SOLD)
Edifier E25 Luna Eclipse : for office use, cute, but sound.......

Gender

Male

Gear-Fi

Canon 'L' lens, I changed DSLR but keep the L lens
Fujifilm X100s - those add-on accessories almost the price of the body. Sellers taking advantage of its retro look?

Occupation

bridge between corporate people and project team