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Chris J

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Location:

Para-Dice

Forum Post Count:

3079

Join Date:

8/17/11

Last Online:

1 hour, 15 minutes ago

About Me:

I love little polar bears :)

Interests (Hobbies, favorite activities, etc.):

playing drums and cymbals with wooden sticks

What I do for a living:

Alchemist
Tinker
sometimes I think I'm an Electrical Engineer

Headphone Inventory

AKG Q701, black and sound.............amazing
Beyer DT880, 600 Ohms and neutral, baby!
Audio Technica ATH-ESW10 el fako........these things sound great thru an iPod or iPad........too bad mine are fakes.
Grado iGrado, great for the bucks!
Sennheiser HD424, 30 years old, 2000 ohms, converted to balanced, still sounding good
Shure SE210, I guess they're OK
some really old Signet TK33 Electrets
Skullcandy earbuds, really bass heavy


I used to own:
Sennheiser PX-100 ii, great for the bucks! Too bad I lost them. Very sad!
AKG K241
some crappy old Koss 'phones

Headphone Amp Inventory

Matrix M Stage e/w LM4562 Op Amps, input caps removed
La Figaro 336C e/w NOS tubes
iBasso D12 Anaconda, usually used as a DAC only
FiiO E17 + E09K
FiiO E12

Source Inventory

iPod
Wadia 170i iPod Transport
iPad
Shanling CD-T 100C CD Player, I normally use the solid state outputs into a headphone amp

Cable Inventory

Kimber KCAG interconnects
Nordost White Lightning interconnects
some homemade stuff
some Monster Cable digital

Power-Related Components

PS Audio power bars

Other Audio Equipment

you know, speakers and stuff like that, amps, pre-amps, cables, CD player, grammophone

Audio-Related Tweaks

Single Malt Scotch
Lambas bread:
One small bite is enough to fill the stomach of a grown man!

Music Preferences

50's and 60's Jazz
Blues
Classical (Romantic period)
but mostly RAWK

Interests (non-headphone)

maple shell drums
copper alloy snare drums
K Zildjian cymbals
Monica Bellucci

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

Nikon D90 DSLR and Canon G12 digital cameras
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Chris J's Recent Activity

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Matrix M-Stage amp review: simple, cheap, and excellent.
Chris J posted in this thread in Headphone Amps (full-size) Today at 2:37 pm | 3989 replies | 434644 views
FiiO E17 + E09k Gain vs. Volume Question
Chris J posted in this thread in Portable Headphone Amps Today at 11:00 am | 7 replies | 337 views
Speaker amps for headphones
Chris J posted in this thread in High-end Audio Forum Today at 10:40 am | 168 replies | 5903 views
The Beyerdynamic DT880 Appreciation / Discussion thread
Chris J posted in this thread in Headphones (full-size) Yesterday at 5:24 pm | 3429 replies | 242823 views
Q701 appreciation thread
Chris J posted in this thread in Headphones (full-size) 5/20/13 at 4:33pm | 3058 replies | 139486 views
Spring Toronto Meet - Saturday May 04, 2013 Impressions
Chris J posted in this thread in Head-Fi Meet Impressions, Trade Show... 5/15/13 at 9:39am | 74 replies | 1646 views
Grado Fan Club!
Chris J posted in this thread in Headphones (full-size) 5/13/13 at 9:43am | 7446 replies | 251495 views
Fake ATH-ESW-9? (56K warning!)
Chris J posted in this thread in Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear... 5/12/13 at 6:07am | 326 replies | 52625 views

 

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Chris J's Forum Signature

Shanling CD player, Wadia 170i, iPod.......iBasso D12, FiiO E12, Matrix M Stage, La Figaro 336C, E17 + E09K............AKG Q701, Beyer DT880/600 ohm, Sennheiser HD424/2000 ohm, Grado iGrado, some fake Audio Technica ATH-ESW10

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