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AVU's Community Profile
| Location: |
Brooklyn |
| Forum Post Count: |
813 |
| Join Date: |
12/31/09 |
| Last Online: |
on 3/22/13 |
| Interests (Hobbies, favorite activities, etc.): |
art film music |
| What I do for a living: |
historian |
| Headphone Inventory |
JH13 Pro |
| Headphone Amp Inventory |
HeadAmp Pico Slim Owned: Cmoy, Corda XXS, iBasso D4 w/HiFlight Mod, RSA Shadow, Centrance DacPort, Audio-gd Sparrow (8740 & 8741), iBasso PB1 "Pelican", iBasso T3 & T3D, Yulong D100 |
| Source Inventory |
Eastern Electric Minimax Tube Dac, Modded by Josh Graham of Downsize Audio Cables Modifications: I/V opamp 5532s replaced with two dual-mounted LME49990, 12au7 tube output replaced with NOS Amperex SQ e80cc, output caps replaced with Auricaps, volume control bypassed for signal purity, digital coax imput replaced with WBT Nextgen Ag silver digital coax connector, input and output paths rewired with Downsize Audio Cables 97/3 silver and gold wire. MHDT 192/24 USBridge Amarra 2.4 MacBookPro 2.4hz i7 (2011) Owned: iBasso D4 w/HiFlight Mod, Audio-gd Sparrow (8740 & 8471), Centrance DacPort, Yulong D100, Peachtree DAC*IT |
| Cable Inventory |
Forza Audioworks 64in copper cable for JH13s Whiplash Twag connectors Viablue RCA-RCA direct connection |
| Power-Related Components |
Furman Digital Power Conditioner |
| Music Preferences |
Classical (ie., Baroque chamber singers, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, et al.); Modern (ie., Scriabin, Schoenberg, Stravinski), Mid-century Jazz (ie., Davis, Coltrane), Late Modern and Electroacoustic (ie., Cage, Stockhausen, Riley, Le Monte Young, Reich), Contemporary Live Electronic (Keith Fullerton Whitman, Pete Swanson, etc), a random assortment of indie, largely from my college days (ie., The Velvet Underground, The Pixies, harder alternative like Big Black), a strange Nusrat Fetah Ali Kahn fetish; contemporary electronica in all its many subsubgenres: Autechre, Plaid, Boards of Canada, Matmos to Zomby, Andy Stott and a not fully matured interest in modern drone and dark ambient - basically much of what is listed through http://www.Boomkat.com |
| Interests (non-headphone) |
photography |
AVU's Recent Activity
Balanced Twag V2 Eclipse (black) for LCD 2/3 - 10 ft length !!!
AVU posted in this thread in Cables, Speakers, Tweaks, Accessories For... 3/13/13 at 10:33am | 1 replies | 215 views
Eastern Electric MiniMax DAC Plus (230V)
AVU posted in this thread in Source Components For Sale / Trade 3/9/13 at 9:52am | 8 replies | 503 views
Official NY /Regional Spring meet, April 20 2013
AVU posted in this thread in Local / Regional Head-Fi Meets, Parties,... 2/19/13 at 9:22pm | 565 replies | 18092 views
Better DAC than the Anedio D2 DAC? (sub $2000, good with Macs, integrated headphone amp, balanced xlr outs)
AVU posted in this thread in Dedicated Source Components 2/17/13 at 8:58pm | 41 replies | 3682 views
LCD3 / LCD2 balanced, unopened Twag V2 cable - gorgeous
AVU posted in this thread in Cables, Speakers, Tweaks, Accessories For... 2/11/13 at 8:14pm | 9 replies | 854 views
Battle Of The Flagships (57 Headphones Compared) UPDATE: Ultimate Ears UERM added (4/14/13)
AVU posted in this thread in Headphones (full-size) 11/23/12 at 8:20am | 3812 replies | 411648 views
Tube Buffer
AVU posted in this thread in Cables, Speakers, Tweaks, Accessories For... 7/31/12 at 8:34pm | 2 replies | 305 views
RSA Mustang/Shadow, or Headamp Pico Slim + CLAS or HP-P1 for JH16 pros
AVU posted in this thread in Portable Headphone Amps 7/29/12 at 11:22pm | 12 replies | 1274 views
DIY Cable Gallery!!
AVU posted in this thread in DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Discussions 7/25/12 at 10:47pm | 11969 replies | 2356977 views
Eastern Electric Minimax Tube Dac (32-bit dac)
AVU posted in this thread in Dedicated Source Components 7/25/12 at 1:38pm | 1123 replies | 75063 views
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