Head-Fi.org › DefQon's profile

DefQon

DefQon's Community Profile

Location:

Melbourne, Australia

Forum Post Count:

3502

Join Date:

1/14/11

About Me:

I can't stand forum cry-babies.

Headphone Inventory

Current:

Headphones:

Sennheiser HD800 balanced/se
Sennheiser HD600 (580 headband) se
Audeze LCD2 rev.1 (last batch) balanced/se
Sony MDR CD3000 balanced/se
Sony MDR SA3000 dual xlr balanced/se
Sony MDR CD850 dual xlr balanced/se
Sony MDR CD950 dual xlr balanced/se
Sony MDR CD480 x 2 se
Fischer Audio FA-011 balanced/se
Fischer Audio FA-003/w balanced/se
Stax SR-Lambda Pro w/revised 202 pads
Stax SR-Gamma Pro
Stax SR-404 Signature - to fix
Stax SR-202 w/Lambda Pro pads
Stax SR-5 Non Gold
Stax SR-30 electret
Stax SR-001MKII
Ultrasone H-Fi 2400
Sennheiser HD438 modded /se
Koss UR40 modded /balanced

IEMS:
JVC FX700
Sennheiser IE7 recabled
Sony EX90SP
Ultimate Ears MetroFi 100
Ultimate Ears MetroFi 200
Ultimate Ears MetroFi 220
Fischer Audio Tau

And more.
Special Mentions:

Sony EX700/1000 - Sold
Sennheiser IE8 - Sold
Westone ES5 - Lost
Stax SR-Sigma Pro - Sold
Stax SR-Omega S/N 34X - Sold

And various other iem's.

Past/Auditioned:

Everything on the market except most rare/vintage/high-end Sennheiser, Sony and Stax/unobtaniums

Headphone Amp Inventory

Bottlehead Crack/Speedball - fully upgraded
Fiio E5
Fiio E11
Banzai v2 Cmoy w/AD8597 dual mono - portable
Banzai v2 Cmoy for rolling - desktop
Bravo Audio V2 tube amp
Darkvoice 336SE
Little Dot MK VI +
Marantz PM-32 integrated amp
Stax SRD-7SBmk2 electrostatic energizer
Stax SRM-1 MK2 Pro Bias modded
Stax SRM-Xh recapped
Stax SRM-001 portable amp
Stax SRD-4 electret energizer
Beta22 2 channel maxed out
WIP Beta22 - balanced 4 channel
WIP Millets Jonokuchi
Yaqin VK-2100 integrated amp
Meixiang MINI 6P1 integrated amp

Soon:
BHSE

And more...

To be updated:

Source Inventory

Desktop PC > Re-capped Creative Fatal1ty Pro sound card digital optical out to DAC's
Asus 1215N laptop > CEntrance DACport LX/M2Tech HiFace/ other full-sized DAC's
iPod Nano 4gb (4th gen silver)
Sony Xperia Z black w/32GB Class 6 Sandisk MicroSD, Winamp, Sony Walkman and Poweramp audio app's
Rockboxed Toshiba Gigabeat MES60V (60gb)
Microsoft Zune 30GB (100gb hard drive mod)
Audio Request Nitro Pro music server (re-capped, ground and added filter PSU, 80GB upgraded drive, Apexi PCI filter card, upgraded CPU and RAM) > digital optical out > DAC's
Sony SCD-XB940 QS SACD transport > DAC's
Lampizised Shanling CD300 with tube buffer CD transport > DAC's

DIY Lampizator + Lampucera tube buffered DAC + various other sub $1k tube/balanced DAC's.

Soon:
Lampizator Level 5 DAC
Sims Audio Moon 380D

Cable Inventory

DIY Crystal Piccolino 5ft balanced - HD800
DIY Crystal Piccolino 5ft balanced - LCD2

Crystal Cables 0.5m CrystalConnect Interconnects x2
Various Nordost Red Dawn/Chord SilverScreen speaker cables

All else are DIY using 24/26awg solid core/pure silver/silver plated/occ silver/ofc copper/silver plated/mogami/canare

Power-Related Components

DIY belden power cables.

Power station/conditioner - soon.

Other Audio Equipment

Tubes, adaptors, DIY anti-vibration/cone platforms

Audio-Related Tweaks

Cryo'd ears, Plants and pots as well as rocks on hifi equipment to bring out better sonic improvements to sound

Music Preferences

Electronic, classical, metal, rap.

Interests (non-headphone)

Women, Japanese culture, vodka, rakija, beer, single malt whiskey and scotch.

Gear-Fi (Favorite Non-Audio Gear & Gadgets)

Phones, cars, computers, women, tablets, martial arts, anime

DefQon's Recent Activity

settings
(Uncheck the summary view to see ALL the gory details!) (Check the summary view to simplify the activity feed.)
The Stax thread (New)
DefQon posted in this thread in High-end Audio Forum Today at 4:59 am | 22350 replies | 1493799 views
Post pics of your builds....
DefQon posted in this thread in DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Discussions Today at 4:57 am | 9131 replies | 2605716 views
New Erzetich - Current Drive HP Amplifiers
DefQon posted in this thread in Headphone Amps (full-size) Today at 4:51 am | 7 replies | 79 views
Bravo Audio - funny looking little tube amps
DefQon posted in this thread in Headphone Amps (full-size) Today at 4:46 am | 2002 replies | 279780 views
New Abyss planar magnetic headphone
DefQon posted in this thread in High-end Audio Forum Today at 4:43 am | 183 replies | 6578 views
Eddie Current DIY amplifier "Monolith"
DefQon posted in this thread in DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Discussions Today at 3:35 am | 68 replies | 2124 views
FS: Crystal Cable Piccolo rca-rca cable
DefQon posted in this thread in Cables, Speakers, Tweaks, Accessories For... Today at 2:00 am | 1 replies | 62 views
Denon D5000 - Modifications resulting in lower value?
DefQon posted in this thread in Headphones (full-size) Yesterday at 11:19 pm | 3 replies | 40 views
Sennheiser HD 800, Help Me Chose Amp
DefQon posted in this thread in Headphones (full-size) Yesterday at 11:14 pm | 39 replies | 686 views
Show us your Head-Fi station at it's current state. No old pictures please...
DefQon posted in this thread in Headphones (full-size) Yesterday at 10:25 pm | 13561 replies | 1587725 views

 

DefQon’s Photos

Avatars
10 photos
122 views
Latest upload: May 7, 2013
Default
77 photos
2,777 views
Latest upload: Jul 17, 2012

DefQon’s Embedded Photos

DefQon's photos in Got the Stax SR-009, still hungry!
1 photo
7 views
Latest upload: Apr 9, 2013
DefQon's photos in New Audio Gear Pictures
2 photos
76 views
Latest upload: Dec 19, 2012
DefQon's photos in Need help on replacing MKP film capacitor
1 photo
14 views
Latest upload: Nov 22, 2012
DefQon's photos in Best looking tube amp
8 photos
268 views
Latest upload: Mar 7, 2013
DefQon's photos in DIY Cable Gallery!!
21 photos
463 views
Latest upload: Dec 17, 2012

DefQon's Forum Signature

Stax and Schubert

 

Found his headphone audio nirvana 11/2012.

 

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself--and you are the easiest person to fool." - Feynman

 

"The point of diminishing returns is in the thousands, not billions." - Uncle Erik

DefQon's Lists

0 Lists
No lists.

Head-Fi.org › DefQon's profile