chrislangley4253
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chrislangley4253's Community Profile
| Location: |
St. Louis, Missouri |
| Forum Post Count: |
1353 |
| Last Online: |
5 hours, 42 minutes ago |
| About Me: |
ON BREAK FROM HEAD-FI I'm studying for Nursing BSN at University of Missouri - St. Louis |
| Interests (Hobbies, favorite activities, etc.): |
(coughs) audio related things? Uh, gaming and computers. School :) |
| What I do for a living: |
Full-Time Student most of the time.. and a few side jobs |
| Headphone Inventory |
Desktop: V4 magnums in Oil-treated Limba Shells with a wax finish (outside only) Portable Koss PortaPro (quarter modded, kramer modded, foam added to sliders, black bestbuy edition) Blox M2C BeB "Black buds" (donut foams) Yuin PK3's (used with donut foams) Etymotic MC5 (used with smallest shure olives) KSC75 (quarter modded) Skullcandy Smokin' Buds Gone/broken/ in pieces or Demoed Extensively: Grado SR225i (stock, modded, and in bloodwood) Allesandro MS Pro V 3.5 magnums in cocobolo Fostex T50RP (stock and modified) Sennheiser hd595's Denon AH-D1100 (stock and modded) Panasonic RP-HTF600 w/ beyerdynamic velour pads Sony XB500s Being borrowed by the girlfriend: Maximo iM-590 iMetal IEM (used with smallest ear tip) Grado SR80i (holes punched, and recovered, driver cloth removed, vintage plastic cups and custom grille) |
| Headphone Amp Inventory |
Objective 2 Amp Gone: Matrix M-stage (various opamps) Audio-gd Sparrow (Older A Version with the DIR9001 and AD1852/WM8740) Demoed extensively: Various vintage stereo amps Being borrowed: PA2v2 (insulated with a bit of aluminium tape) |
| Source Inventory |
Home : Custom i5 Sandy Bridge Rig @4.1Ghz using foobar2k w/ WASAPI Plug-in & mostly FLAC/v0 > Gamma 2 Rockboxed Sansa Clip+ 8gb with a 16gb microsd Asus laptop using foobar2k w/ WASAPI Plug-in & mostly FLAC/v0 > Gamma 2 I have an ipawd somewhere.. 3rd gen nano. The cute square ones that you can't rockbox. |
| Cable Inventory |
10 Foot canare Extender w/ neutrik plugs and epoxy strain reliefs (Thanks Stefan) Free IC's and various cables/adapters from everywhere monoprice cables and adapters |
| Other Audio Equipment |
Deoxit (magic in a can) |
| Audio-Related Tweaks |
All kinds of mods to my PortaPro's (Silver cable, Quater mods, Kramer mods, 414 pads, custom foam, gluing on plastic zipties, everything else). Modded my Grado SR80i's and SR225i's (Bloodwood cups & rods, 8 conductor silver cables, holes have been all poked and recovered with muslin on the 80s, grille's of all kinds, pads of all kinds, dynamat) Modded Demon AH-D1100 Different chips for my Audio-gd Sparrow PA2v2 lined with some aluminum tape to cut down on interference. Ksc75(kramer mod, quarter mod) T50RP (various mods) Opamp rolling and modding to my Matrix M-Stage |
| Music Preferences |
I'm into indie, electronic, alternative, experimental and post-hardcore, including: Modest Mouse, Minus the Bear, Dance Gavin Dance, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Enter Shikari, Nine Inch Nails, Gorillaz, Thursday, The Beatles, The Mars Volta, Stars, Yeasayer, MGMT, Poison the Well, Childish Gambino, Why?, Daft Punk, Sleigh Bells, Reel Big Fish, Spraynard, Cake, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Violent Femmes, Rancid, Red Hot Chili Peppers, At the Drive-In, The Aquabats, Justice, Oasis, BAMF!, Breathe Owl Breathe, Arctic Monkeys, Broken Bells, Led Zeppelin, Rage Against the Machine, Rasputina, Primus, The Smashing Pumpkins, Uffie, Nirvana, Tripping Daisy, Moneen, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, He Is Legend, Sonic Youth, Descendents, The Fall of Troy, Lostprophets, Wolfmother, The White Stripes. Check out my music taste: http://www.last.fm/user/Langley65 |
| Interests (non-headphone) |
Mountain-biking, NERF, Concerts, Partying, Coffee - Although now I have to drink decaf :((, Kite-flying, Art. |
| Gear-Fi (Favorite Non-Audio Gear & Gadgets) |
Well, I do like my car, (03 Impala) and my bike (Trek 3000) and my computer (Sandy bridge i5-2500K @4.1ghz, Coolermaster 120mm CPU cooler, XFX black edition OC'd Radeon hd6870, MSI board, 8GB hyperx ddr3, XFX 650w PSU, 1tb spinpoint F3 HDD, coolermaster HAF 992 case w/ red fans) |
chrislangley4253's Recent Activity
O2 amp - which to buy?
chrislangley4253 posted in this thread in Headphone Amps (full-size) 2/1/12 at 7:10pm | 14 replies | 607 views
Objective 2 vs Matrix M-Stage
chrislangley4253 posted in this thread in Portable Headphone Amps 2/1/12 at 3:11pm | 46 replies | 1451 views
Blox M2C Audition Thread
chrislangley4253 posted in this thread in Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear... 2/1/12 at 12:19am | 42 replies | 1443 views
Earbuds Round-Up
chrislangley4253 posted in this thread in Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear... 2/1/12 at 12:16am | 142 replies | 33362 views
Meet 'Typical Headfier' Andy
chrislangley4253 posted in this thread in Members' Lounge (General Discussion) 1/29/12 at 12:10pm | 1581 replies | 54669 views
cup tuning basics.
chrislangley4253 posted in this thread in DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Discussions 1/28/12 at 8:40pm | 249 replies | 3318 views
What Are You Listening To Right Now? -New thread, new rules. Please read them.
chrislangley4253 posted in this thread in Music 1/28/12 at 6:38pm | 31034 replies | 756342 views
Post your wallpaper!
chrislangley4253 posted in this thread in Members' Lounge (General Discussion) 1/28/12 at 4:07pm | 349 replies | 19356 views
Grado modders go Magnum
chrislangley4253 posted in this thread in Headphones (full-size) 1/28/12 at 3:31pm | 1175 replies | 40350 views
Symphones Magnum upgrade for Grado SR325 and Alessandro MS2
chrislangley4253 posted in this thread in Headphones (full-size) 1/28/12 at 3:31pm | 2066 replies | 135069 views
