Sapientiam

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Location:	Hangzhou, PRC
Forum Post Count:	217
Join Date:	8/16/09
Last Online:	5 hours, 6 minutes ago
About Me:	Disruptive innovator in digital audio using ARM Cortex M-series and cheapo multibit DACs.
Interests (Hobbies, favorite activities, etc.):	Music, philosophy, engineering, gadgets, gals.
What I do for a living:	Been working most of my time on DAC designs for the past year. Part time teaching kids English.
Headphone Inventory	Shure E3, E5, Sony MDR-CD3000, Sennheiser HD-420
Headphone Amp Inventory	Nada at the moment
Source Inventory	Sony DVP-915, Pioneer DV-6800A, Ainol Novo 8, half a dozen el-cheapo supermarket DVDs used as CD transports, 2 QA550 wav players. Muse X4 DAC, Several home grown DACs on pcbs. 3 heavily modified DAC-AH with TDA1543s replaced by stacked arrays of TDA1545 and TDA1387.
Cable Inventory	Not a believer in cables hence none to speak of.
Power-Related Components	Own designed wideband mains filters using air-cored steel inductors.
Other Audio Equipment	M-Audio 24/96, Asus DX & Essence ST, Creative X-Fi extreme music, Fayou active XPE, 08 and ArtMasters, B&W CM1s, Hivi D1010s and D1080 MkIIs, 2 Xindak integrated amps, extensive mods to PSUs and grounding. Heavily modified 3Nod desktop monitors. Paiyon passive bookshelf monitors on stands
Audio-Related Tweaks	Mains balancing transformers (1kVA).
Music Preferences	Classical, acoustic rock, world, new age, jazz.
Interests (non-headphone)	Philosophy, piano, psychology. drinking tea, Asian foods and of course, pizza.
Gear-Fi (Favorite Non-Audio Gear & Gadgets)	Kawai GS-30 grand piano, Schimmel upright.