driguy

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driguy's Community Profile

Location:	New Mexico
Forum Post Count:	45
Join Date:	5/9/04
Last Online:	on 1/26/13
About Me:	Retired Merchant Marine Chief Engineer
Interests (Hobbies, favorite activities, etc.):	What, I have time for anything else?
Headphone Inventory	Sennheiser HD-800
Headphone Amp Inventory	Custom built (by me) OTA (One Tube Amp) employing Lundahl input transformers, Emission Labs 20b tubes and Electra-Print output transformers.
Source Inventory	16 chip DAC (Chameleon) NOS heavily modified. Tubed (6922) output stage, Separate power supplies for receiver chip and upsampler chip. Power supply to DAC chips is modified with a supercap module (16 Farads). I use a custom built transport employing a CD Pro2 unit again with separate power supplies for motor and controllers as well as a replacement clock and re-clocker (TentLabs).
Cable Inventory	All silver cables using Chris VanHaus' formula and wire for signal level and Bastanis for the power cables.
Power-Related Components	Balanced Power Technologies unit for the system.
Other Audio Equipment	Custom built Open Baffle Speakers (102 db) crossed over to a pair of subs employing GR Research Servo controlled open baffle drivers. Crossover is ~ 90Hz. These are powered by a highly customized pair of 300b amps using Emission Labs 300b XLS tubes. It employs no electolytic caps (Mundorf M-Tube caps). The driver tube supply is tube regulated with a CCS on the plate. Coupling cap is a VH Audio CuTF.
Music Preferences	Jazz, World, Pop, and Rock.