amb
Member of the Trade: AMB Laboratories
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amb's Community Profile
| Location: |
Sunnyvale, CA. USA |
| Forum Post Count: |
4846 |
| Last Online: |
5 hours, 40 minutes ago |
| About Me: |
Man of too many interests. |
| Interests (Hobbies, favorite activities, etc.): |
High-end audio DIY, founder of CDDB®, music, computers, Audi cars, Unix/Linux, health/fitness, beach |
| What I do for a living: |
High-end DIY audio tinkerman, Linux/Unix geek |
| Headphone Inventory |
Sennheiser HD800, HD600, HD580, PX100, HD410SL, HD50 |
| Headphone Amp Inventory |
AMB β22 with σ22 PSU AMB M³ with σ11 PSU AMB Cavalli-Kan Kumisa III AMB Mini³ high performance edition AMB Mini³ extended runtime edition AMB β18 (modified SDS Labs MOSFET amp) Gilmore Dynahi Millett Hybrid |
| Source Inventory |
Slim Devices Squeezebox 3 / Squeezebox server on openSUSE Linux NAD C520 CD player Oppo BDP-83 Blu-Ray disc player Philips DVP5982/37 DVD player Sony DVP-NS575 DVD player AMB γ1 modular miniature DAC (two) AMB γ2 compact high-performance DAC (two) Benchmark DAC1 RME ADI-2 ADC/DAC Alien USB DAC (two) M-Audio Firewire Audiophile M-Audio Transit E-MU 0404 USB Rotel RSP-1068 surround sound processor/preamp Technics SH-AC500D surround sound processor AMB λ1 turntable + Linn Basik Plus tone arm + Dynavector 17D2 mk.2 MC cartridge Systemdek IIX turntable + Linn Basik Plus tone arm + Ortofon OM40 MM cartridge CEC BD-5200 turntable (heavily modded) + Dynavector 23R MC cartridge Nakamichi Dragon cassette deck Nakamichi CR-7A cassette deck Pioneer CT-F1250 cassette deck (two) Kenwood KX-660HX cassette deck Rotel RT-850A AM/FM tuner Apple iPod 5.5G 120GB + Rockbox Apple iPhone 4 |
| Cable Inventory |
DIY interconnects, etc. |
| Other Audio Equipment |
AMB α3 moving-coil pre-preamplifier AMB α6 stereo pre-amplifier AMB α8 stereo pre-amplifier AMB α10 stereo pre-amplifier with σ10 PSU (σ22 + σ25) AMB β3 stereo power amplifier AMB β8 stereo power amplifier AMB β24 fully-differential stereo power amplifier AMB ε10 Line level summing amplifier Sound Valves SV100 JFET stereo pre-amplifier Hafler DH-100 Series 2 stereo pre-amplifier Hafler DH-120 stereo power amplifier Hafler DH-220 stereo power amplifier (two) Hafler DH-200 stereo power amplifier Dayton Audio DTA-1 (formerly Sonic Impact T-Amp) Velodyne SMS-1 subwoofer management system AMB θ3W subwoofers AMB θ6S satellite speaker system AMB θ6W subwoofer AMB θ18 speaker system AMB θ19 speaker system AMB θ20 speaker system NHT VT1 speaker system Sunfire True Subwoofer Ölevia 242T-FHD 42" 1080p LCD HDTV |
| Music Preferences |
Just about everything except country/western or gangster rap. |
| Interests (non-headphone) |
High-end audio DIY, music, Audi cars, Linux/Unix, good food, ocean/beach. |
amb's Recent Activity
Gamma-2 (γ2) DAC Thread
amb posted in this thread in DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Discussions 2/5/12 at 5:20pm | 2084 replies | 166809 views
OFFICIAL 2012 Bay Area Meet Thread (California) February 11th, Saturday
amb posted in this thread in Local / Regional Head-Fi Meets, Parties,... 1/23/12 at 11:08pm | 469 replies | 10921 views
RMAA Fuze vs Fuze>10uF Caps>Mini^3, is there something wrong here?
amb posted in this thread in DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Discussions 1/4/12 at 1:15am | 5 replies | 98 views
Roll Call: Who's building, built, or thinking of building a beta22?
amb posted in this thread in DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Discussions 1/4/12 at 1:09am | 2870 replies | 212165 views
Gold A-1 Build with Pics
amb posted in this thread in DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Discussions 10/10/11 at 4:07am | 22 replies | 877 views
Post pics of your builds....
amb posted in this thread in DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Discussions 9/18/11 at 12:28am | 8501 replies | 2397936 views
Help Building M3
amb posted in this thread in DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Discussions 8/31/11 at 1:25am | 10 replies | 414 views
So, the Objective2 headphone amp - designed entirely around the measurements? (PLEASE READ RULES BEFORE POSTING)
amb posted in this thread in DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Discussions 8/24/11 at 2:16pm | 1041 replies | 55880 views
Disconnecting headphone ground before signal
amb posted in this thread in DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Discussions 7/24/11 at 3:51am | 5 replies | 273 views
Bay Area Meet (California) February 11th, 2012 INTEREST THREAD
amb posted in this thread in Local / Regional Head-Fi Meets, Parties,... 7/24/11 at 3:13am | 211 replies | 6296 views
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