MalVeauX

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Location:	Florida
Forum Post Count:	6443
Join Date:	4/29/11
Last Online:	15 hours, 3 minutes ago
About Me:	Listen to a cello, the low tones are forceful, emotional, deep, and can resonate walls.
Interests (Hobbies, favorite activities, etc.):	Kayak Angler. Adventuring. Music. Pipe Tobacco Smoking (I have a collection of Briar Pipes).
What I do for a living:	Save Lives.
Headphone Inventory	HifiMAN HE-500 (custom cable for speaker taps; velour & leather pads) HifiMAN HE-400 (velour & leather pads) HifiMAN HE-300 (velour & leather pads) Audeze LCD2 revision 2 (bamboo) (custom detachable balanced cable) Fostex T50RP (stock) Fostex T50RP (modded; Mr Speakers "Mad Dog" with Stax Pads) Shure SRH940 AKG K701 AKG Q701 Ultrasone PRO 900 Ultrasone HFI 2400 Sennheiser HD650 Sennheiser HD580 Sennheiser HD448 BeyerDynamic T70 250ohm BeyerDynamic DT770 Pro 80ohm BeyerDyanmic DT770 600ohm Premium (Custom modded; locking removable sheathed cable) BeyerDynamic DT880 600ohm Premium BeyerDynamic DT990 600ohm Premium BeyerDynamic Custom One Pro Fischer Audio FA-011 Fischer Audio FA-003 Fischer Audio FA-002W (Breech Wood) Brainwavz HM5 (FA-003 clone) Philips CitiScape Uptowns Philips O'Neil SHO9560 "Black Bordeaux" Goldring DR150 M-Audio Q40 (modded with black DT770 velour pads) Panasonic RP-HTF600-S (modded with EDT200 velour pads) AudioTechnica A900X AudioTechnica ESW9 AudioTechnica AD700 AudioTechnica AD500 AudioTechnica M50 Denon D5000 (re-cabled to locking detachable mini-xlr and terminated balanced, sheathed wire) Denon D2000 Denon D1100 Grado SR60i (L Cush Pads) Grado SR80i (L Cush Pads) (re-cabled to dual 3.5mm TRS detachable, terminated balanced XLR) Grado SR125 (L Cush Pads) Grado SR325i "Goldies" (L Cush Pads & G Cush Pads) KRK KNS 6400 Samson SR850 Sony XB500 Sony MDRZX500 Pioneer SE-M290 Vmoda CrossFade LP Vmoda M80 (custom Head-Fi plates) Koss UR55 Studio Pulse Kicker HP541 Monoprice MHP-839
Headphone Amp Inventory	Emotiva mini-X A-100 50wpc speaker amp (for the Hifiman HE-500 on speaker tap) Schiit Lyr (hybrid tube) Schiit Asgard (solid state) Little Dot MK III Tube Amp (tube) Little Dot II (original; tube) Matrix Cube DAC (with solid state amp) Vivid V1 Technologies DAC/AMP (solid state amp; portable) Digizoid ZO 2 (solid state; portable) Fiio E11 x 2 (portable; solid state) Fiio E10 (solid state) Audio GD NFB 12 (solid state) JDS Labs Objective 2 (solid state)
Source Inventory	Matrix Cube DAC (USB, optical, SPDIFF input) Auzentech Forte (sound card) Asus Xonar DG (sound card; onboard amplifier) Sansa Fuze (portable DAP; flac support, line out dock capbility) HifiMAN Express HM-101 (USB) Fiio E10 (USB with line out) Schiit Bifrost (USB, optical, SPDIFF) Audio GD NFB 12 (USB, optical, SPDIFF) Maverick Audio TubeMagic D2 (Tube; USB, optical, SPDIFF)
Cable Inventory	Hifiman -> sheathed cable -> XLR & Speaker Taps Mini-xlr -> sheathed cable -> XLR & 3.5mm Dual mini-xlr -> sheathed cable -> XLR XLR -> 500ohm reistor -> XLR From Brian over at BTG Audio.
Other Audio Equipment	Several 5.1 and 7.2 setups for home theater. Four subwoofers under one roof. Worth it!
Audio-Related Tweaks	Equalizers are your friend, not the enemy of audiophiles.
Music Preferences	Jazz (old & new) Acoustic (piano & cello primarily) Electronic Dance Trance (Vocal) Various forms of Dub Some Pop Some Rock/Metal
Interests (non-headphone)	Kayaking Fishing Smoking Pipes (Briar Pipes) Watches Photography Home Audio Chemistry Mathematics Cosmology & Star Gazing