KashmaNiaC

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Location:	Sydney, Australia
Forum Post Count:	2
Join Date:	8/30/10
Last Online:	1 week, 4 days ago
About Me:	I'm the one who's usually tapping his foot and looking like he's having the time of his life amoung all those other commuters who wish they were anywhere but stuck on a train (thanks to my portable audio, of course).
Interests (Hobbies, favorite activities, etc.):	Music - constant listening, occasional singing and rare bouts of dusting off my old steel-string acoustic and almost-in-tune vocals, fast-paced sports, sleep, cooking, late-night cafe meet-ups with friends.
What I do for a living:	Web programmer / IT Student and all-round technophile.
Headphone Inventory	Westone 3 IEMs Beyerdynamic DT-880 (600 Ohm) AKG k702 Denon D2000 (on it's way!)
Headphone Amp Inventory	NuForce Icon Mobile Matrix M-Stage Burson HA-160
Source Inventory	Musiland Monitor 02 US (recently relegated to pure transport due to the following): Cambridge Audio DacMagic Low-power AMD Athlon X2 HTPC w/ Windows Server 2008 R2 & Foobar2000 (397 CDs in FLAC) Cowon J3 32GB + 32GB MicroSD (80% full) LG Optimus 7 (100% full)
Cable Inventory	Blue Jeans cable all-round
Other Audio Equipment	Lots, here's a brief history of my audio experiences: 2000-2004: - Sony Fontopia ($20) earphones: if I was lucky - the damned things kept breaking, and $20 is a lot for a teenager! - Sony (plastic) micro Hi-Fi system: which I cherished, even though I only had 4-5 CDs, two of them Michael Jackson's. 2004-2005: Creative 2.1 computer speakers: "Wow, when I turn it up I can feel the bass!" 2005-2006: Sony In-ear earphones: "These do bass even better than my Creative speakers!" 2006-2007: - Sennheiser CX-300II (Called CX-500 at the time): "Ah, I knew CDs could sound better than MP3s, time to go lossless!" - Bose Companion 5 computer speakers: (Initially) "That's some mighty bass! And the treble's so sweet!" ... (over time) "Was that a kick drum or a double bass that I just heard?/Wait- that's not what a cello sounds like!" - (Replacing the Bose) JBL entry-level floor-standers (2 & 1/2 way) w/ cheap Sony amp (clamed 400w): "this thing rocks!" 2007-2008: - Bower & Wilkins 300-series Floor standers & subwoofer + Haman/Kardon integrated 7.1ch Amp: "I finally understand what the word 'soundstage' means." - Ultimate Ears Super-Fi 3 (v2) + iPhone 3G: "Finally, some peace and quiet at work (also, this sounds amazing!)" 2008-2009: - UE Super-Fi 3 + Microsoft Zune 120: "This sounds so much better than 96kbps MP4s on an iPhone." 2009-2010: - Westone 3 + Microsoft Zune 120 + NuForce Icon Mobile: "This goes toe-to-toe with my speaker setup!"
Music Preferences	Mozart, Dylan, The Boss, Miles, Ol' Blue-Eyes and peers/derivatives thereof... (I don't mean that pejoratively, but they're all shining stars in their genre (IMO), and thus typically inspire other artists whom I also appreciate).