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Location:	Miami Florida, New York N.Y. USA
Forum Post Count:	3
Last Online:	on 1/23/11
About Me:	56 years old as of January 2011. Big on classical and jazz - love tubes and compact disk convenience
Interests (Hobbies, favorite activities, etc.):	Yoga, restoring classic road bikes, family man, aspiring to be a better father and husband.
What I do for a living:	I'm a uniformed and undercover County transportation officer - Catching illegal taxis and the like
Headphone Inventory	Beyerdynamic DT 880 my first and only serious headphone unit purchased as a birthday present from my wife in 2010. If I buy something else it will likely be some kind of ear canal set up that can be used in the gym. This will take quite a bit of research as my wife's stock Nano with stock plugs seem woefully substandard. I looking for something durable, dependable and a general bargain as is most of my audio equipment.
Headphone Amp Inventory	Little Dot Mark IV with stock tubes. Previously I was using my Beyer DT 880's with the headphone jack on my Ah Njoe Tjoeb tubed cd player. The Little Dot does a much better job than the stock headphone output on the Ah NJoe Tjoeb even when using an ordinary consumer grade cd player.
Source Inventory	Ah Njoe Tjoeb tube front end Cd player. Sony mid grade Cd player.
Cable Inventory	Nothing special here ... tried Monster, and other quality bargain interconnects. I have made some wonderful bi-wired speaker wires using a tried and true audiophile diy recipe. For $200 and a week's work, I experienced some noticeable but still subtle improvements. Similar recipes are available for interconnects but I'm not sure I will what I will gain. My first experiment will be from the cd player to my Little Dot. Any suggestions?
Power-Related Components	Rotel 100 wpc solid state amp for my bedroom. Jolida integrated, hybrid tube and solid state amp for my livingroom set up.
Other Audio Equipment	B&W two ways on heavy sand filled metal stands and spikes in the livingroom. Sealed enclosure two way NHT Zero's in the bedroom. Homemade ported two way Vifa's in heavy, well braced speakers that took me two months to build in my spare time. (This proved very nice in the mids but less good than the off the shelf B&W's in the treble and bass.) Parts Express Titanic 10 inch powered sub set to crossover at 40 hz (nice if used sparingly with low crossover and minimal volume). This was integrated into my livingroom setup using a signal generator to fine tune to room acoustics. Equipment I've heard that I like .... Magneplaners, Carey amps, Martin Logan's, certain handmade turntables, my parents original mono late 40's tube amp with vintage Garard turntable feed into 15 inch woofer and enormous horn tweeter (speaker box must have stood four feet tall and weighed almost two hundred pounds. I still like my mother's KLH sealed enclosure floorstanding three ways from the sixties. What I've learned is that for in room listening the single most important factor is room treatments and placement and room dimensions. I still hope to get this together one day. It may require that I move to still another house as my current livingroom with it's 30 x 20 size and open to the kitchen floor plan is architecturally pleasing but not ideal. I've yet to hear any car stereo set-up that is anything but horrid. Most movie theatre sound systems seem all wrong to me (even the ones that boast of high end sound). I love the acoustics at the Lincoln Theatre in Miami Beach still sometimes used by the New World Symphony - moving to a new campus. Most bar acoustics for Jazz ensembles are pretty bad too. Outdoor amplification for symphonies is usually bad too. There are so many opportunities to hear distortion and so few to hear quality reproduction!
Audio-Related Tweaks	cork, sand bags, three legged equipment stands, floor tiles glued to equipment interiors, blue tack to deaden equipment interiors and blue tack to anchor speakers to stands, acoustic honeycomb shades, oriental rugs, deoxit, herbies cd damper disk, dairy free diet and salt water snorting to eliminate excess mucus, ear protection for lawn mowing, drilling and hammering, stuffing my ears with anything available at movie theaters to preserve my hearing.
Music Preferences	Classical, orchestral, fifties an sixties and some later period jazz, middle eastern music, crooners like early Mathis (Open Fire Two Guitars), Sarah Vaughn rules as does Ella!
Interests (non-headphone)	Health, yoga, road biking, my wife's career as an artist Biancapratorius.com, my son's upbringing, cooking, classic double edged shaving equipment , classic bodybuilders before the advent of steroid drugs... I'd like to someday do twenty chinups and oh ... I've completed a novel but haven't yet gotten to the re-writes.
Gear-Fi (Favorite Non-Audio Gear & Gadgets)	Double edged shaving gear, kitchen knives and sharpening skills, cars with manual transmissions old and new, Mac computers old and new, PF flyers reissue sneakers, leather knee high boots, well tailored men's suits, pants and shirts, chopsticks skills for my eating, the modern two wheeled ripstick, foosball tables, table tennis,

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