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post #1 of 38
12/27/11 at 9:49pm
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I entered the Head-fi scene in 2010 when I bought my first headphone. 2011 was a pretty crazy Head-fi year for me. Feel free to list your Head-fi or audio related purchases as well !!

 

Home Theatre:

Yamaha 3067 flagship AV receiver (sold)
Pioneer SC-LX85 flagship AV receiver
Oppo 95 flagship Blu-ray Player

 

2 Channel / Headphone:

Esoteric K-01 flagship one-box CD/SACD player / DAC
Tara Labs The One Interconnects
Madison Audio Lab E3 Extreme 1 RCA
Madison Audio Lab E3 Extreme 1 Speaker Cables
Westone ES5
Westone 4 (as present for my brother)
Audeze LCD2 Rev 1
Beyerdynamic T5p
Cypher Labs Algorhythm Solo
Meier Stepdance
iBasso DB2
Fostex HP-P1
Ray Samuels SR71B
Stax SRM727-II amp
Stax SR009
Audeze LCD3
ALO Reference 16 silver/copper cable for LCD2/3
Rega Saturn CD player
Cavalli Liquid Fire, and 1940's Telefunken CCa tubes

SVS Smyth Realiser


Ordered Thunderpants but not yet arrived.
Also placed deposit for Blue Hawaii Special Edition.

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post #2 of 38
12/27/11 at 9:57pm

Hello Kitty 2GB flagship MP3 player - Pink (out of stock at Walmart)


Edited by mrbig - 12/28/11 at 10:31am
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post #3 of 38
12/27/11 at 11:01pm

A ton of transistors. The parts make the whole.

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post #4 of 38
12/27/11 at 11:04pm

Nothing yet, but going to pull the trigger on a fairly large purchase tomorrow.

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post #5 of 38
12/27/11 at 11:30pm

A great year for me audio wise thanks to all the great advice at Head-fi to guide me along with all the tons of reviews at Amazon.

 

Onkyo TX-8555 stereo reciever

JBL Control One bookshelf speakers

Insignia Bass Reflex Speakers

KLH Pro-6 bookshelf speakers

Auralex Mopads

Koss Pro-4AA headphones

Koss UR-40 Titanium headphones

Sony MDR-XB500 headphones

Sennheiser HD-202 II headphones

Sennheiser HD-419 headphones

Flex 500gig external harddrive for backing up music cds.

 

 

This will probably be it as i focus on buying music and a few computer games for my audio visual pleasure. Oh yea and probably see about getting some more storage for ripping the music on.

 

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post #6 of 38
12/28/11 at 12:09am
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Originally Posted by googleli View Post

I entered the Head-fi scene in 2010 when I bought my first headphone. 2011 was a pretty crazy Head-fi year for me. Feel free to list your Head-fi or audio related purchases as well !!

 

Home Theatre:

Yamaha 3067 flagship AV receiver (sold)
Pioneer SC-LX85 flagship AV receiver
Oppo 95 flagship Blu-ray Player

 

2 Channel / Headphone:

Esoteric K-01 flagship one-box CD/SACD player / DAC
Tara Labs The One Interconnects
Madison Audio Lab E3 Extreme 1 RCA
Madison Audio Lab E3 Extreme 1 Speaker Cables
Westone ES5
Westone 4 (as present for my brother)
Audeze LCD2 Rev 1
Beyerdynamic T5p
Cypher Labs Algorhythm Solo
Meier Stepdance
iBasso DB2
Fostex HP-P1
Ray Samuels SR71B
Stax SRM727-II amp
Stax SR009
Audeze LCD3
ALO Reference 16 silver/copper cable for LCD2/3
Rega Saturn CD player
Cavalli Liquid Fire, and 1940's Telefunken CCa tubes

SVS Smyth Realiser


Ordered Thunderpants but not yet arrived.
Also placed deposit for Blue Hawaii Special Edition.


This list is just insane and all in 1 year to boot. So in your opinion, which of those mentioned above is your best purchase of the year (i.e. once you have it you just cannot live without it)?

 

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post #7 of 38
12/28/11 at 12:15am
2011 has been a great year. Sig includes everything but DT880s which were traded. In 2012 I'm looking forward to the release of the ODAC and WooDAC.
Edited by Draygonn - 12/28/11 at 12:17am
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post #8 of 38
12/28/11 at 12:26am
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I'd say Esoteric K-01, SR009, Smyth Realiser and Westone ES5. But of course I can't listen to my SR009 without the SRM727II so I have to reluctantly include it - until my BHSE arrives. 

 

As for Liquid Fire / LCD2/3, they are very close to my top gear mentioned above, but not there yet when it comes to "once you have it you just cannot live without it".
 

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Originally Posted by DarknightDK View Post


This list is just insane and all in 1 year to boot. So in your opinion, which of those mentioned above is your best purchase of the year (i.e. once you have it you just cannot live without it)?

 



 

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post #9 of 38
12/28/11 at 3:31am

Bragging thread... ;)

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post #10 of 38
12/28/11 at 4:13am

Too many headphones, a few sources, amplifiers and more music than I can handle. 

 

The highlights:

Sony CDP-750

Beyerdynamic DT48S

AKG K400

AKG K500

Fiio E10

Sennheiser HD250 II Linear

JBL Duet II (Computer speakers usually sound lousy, especially the budget versions. The JBL sounds better than I expected.)

 

At the moment I am still checking out a particular headphone and I still want to try the DT1350...


Edited by Deep Funk - 12/28/11 at 4:15am
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post #11 of 38
12/28/11 at 1:25pm

Not a whole lot going on this year, but that's a good thing. Only two main standouts:

 

Stax SR-X Mk3 Pro, which is ridiculously awesome, and

Neko D100 Mk2, which is a rather nice DAC actually, especially with the O2/BH... nice enough to make me contemplate selling everything else.

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post #12 of 38
12/28/11 at 2:39pm

* Woo Audio WA6-SE

* Violectric V800

 

Very happy with both :)

 

Thinking about the LCD-3, but probably not before the year is over.

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post #13 of 38
12/28/11 at 3:00pm

MEElectronics M6

Ety MC5 (now broken...)

UE TF10

Some random Altec Lansing phones (returned the next day..)

 

Sony MDR 7506

Sony XB 500

Grado SR60i

AKG K240M

 

Fiio E6

CEntrance DACmini

 

iPod Classic 160gb

Pure i20

 

I only regret the XB500s and the M6s.

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post #14 of 38
12/28/11 at 3:20pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by googleli View Post

I entered the Head-fi scene in 2010 when I bought my first headphone. 2011 was a pretty crazy Head-fi year for me. Feel free to list your Head-fi or audio related purchases as well !!

 

Home Theatre:

Yamaha 3067 flagship AV receiver (sold)
Pioneer SC-LX85 flagship AV receiver
Oppo 95 flagship Blu-ray Player

 

2 Channel / Headphone:

Esoteric K-01 flagship one-box CD/SACD player / DAC
Tara Labs The One Interconnects
Madison Audio Lab E3 Extreme 1 RCA
Madison Audio Lab E3 Extreme 1 Speaker Cables
Westone ES5
Westone 4 (as present for my brother)
Audeze LCD2 Rev 1
Beyerdynamic T5p
Cypher Labs Algorhythm Solo
Meier Stepdance
iBasso DB2
Fostex HP-P1
Ray Samuels SR71B
Stax SRM727-II amp
Stax SR009
Audeze LCD3
ALO Reference 16 silver/copper cable for LCD2/3
Rega Saturn CD player
Cavalli Liquid Fire, and 1940's Telefunken CCa tubes

SVS Smyth Realiser


Ordered Thunderpants but not yet arrived.
Also placed deposit for Blue Hawaii Special Edition.



 


say there pal... coud I uhh... borrow some money wink_face.gif

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post #15 of 38
12/28/11 at 6:53pm

Hmmm.......

 

AKG K-400

AKG K-501

Stax SR-X Mk3 Pro

Stax SRD-7

Miscellanous Grados

Sennheiser HE60 (Baby Orpheus)

Cavalli eXStatA Hybrid Amp

 

Ans still managed to pay the mortgage and feed the kids.


Edited by charliex - 12/28/11 at 6:55pm
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