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Location:	Dallas,Tx
Forum Post Count:	4
Last Online:	on 1/2/12
About Me:	Been into tube gear a long time, would like a pair of electrostatic phones, do own some electrostatic tweeters and they are sweet, though not in use at this time. Anyone with a collection of electrostatic tweeters, get hold of me, I have some singles.
Interests (Hobbies, favorite activities, etc.):	Sculpture, the one in my profile photo is made from a very hard wood that is originally local to only Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma along rivers and streams. I understand it is now grown in Argentina, though I don't know if it was grown as a trade item, or grew by itself as it did locally. I live on the edge of old growth forest pre non native population. This sculpture is from a tree that was maybe 300 years old. Gives one thought, sunlight trapped for hundreds of years in a hunk o'wood I sculpted. Cool!
What I do for a living:	I stay alive. I have been living on dissability for close on 20 years. It is not easy, money is very tight. I have a lot of time on my hands but don't have the body to take advantage of it. I suck at math so DIY HiFi doesn't work out too well. I sculpt during nice weather, I work in wood and stone, not large, but I do it nice. I love music and sleep wearing phones to music made for brain waves...sometimes my dreams are strange, my wife says I sound like I party a lot, but I don't remember. If you can sleep all night on your back, doing it with phones is a great way to spend a third of your life. Sometimes my outer ears hurt when I wake up but it is seldom that the pain from my outer ears wakes me. I can put a disc on repeat, so I do brain waves all night with some old Koss. I am a consumer is the best way to put what I do for a living. Everyone of us are, we work to get money to consume. Are you what your job is, or a consumer who does a job to be better able to consume? Only those who can't consume really care, and they don't care what your job is. Who crapped in my cereal this morning? Please send me all your old electrostatic phones so that I can be a better consumer within my budget! Or not. I am reading Roger Zelazney of the Lord of Light type again for I don't know how many times in the last 40 years. What I read and like influences me greatly until I read another novel that makes my mind wonder who crapped in my cereal this morning. I will be a consumer until shortly after I die,I hope somebody worthwhile gets all the cool shit I collected during my life as a consumer. There ya go!!! Thatch
Headphone Inventory	Old pair of Koss I wear while sleeping, some noise cancellation that I wear on airliners, and I cannot stress too much how much you need these if you fly only once in your life for over an hour. I did about 20 hours on airplanes and they do the trick.
Headphone Amp Inventory	Most of my amps and preamps have phone holes. I have stacks of tube and SS gear from the 50s through the millennium. I like phones but only use them when the wife makes speakers something bad. I hope to get some electrostatics, maybe others for my pleasure soon. Right now my major want is that they must fit over the whole outer ear in a comfortable manner so that I can wear them while asleep. I am using SS right now but want to buy or build a stereo SE tube amp for phones for sleep. I deserve it.
Source Inventory	Garage sales, thrift stores, DIY, trade, retail.
Cable Inventory	Lots, I even hand braid my own from Vampire OFC of which I bought a spool in Las Vegas at the SHOW a few years ago, it was snowing at the time. I never went to the large hotel with the HT stuff, just the small one with the tube gear, turntables, even the little ball speakers by Gallo were better than any HT stuff I have ever heard.
Power-Related Components	Isolation transformers and in the process of building a power lowering filter to be isolation transformers which do not change the voltage.
Other Audio Equipment	Rooms, closets and half a garage full... I like high effiency speakers and single ended tube gear.
Audio-Related Tweaks	Get back to you...........

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