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Location:

Tarana, Canada, eh?

Forum Post Count:

3215

Join Date:

8/17/11

Last Online:

7 hours, 25 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........probably because I am!

Headphone Inventory

AKG Q701, black and sound.............amazing
Beyer DT880, 600 Ohms and neutral, baby!
Audio Technica ATH-ESW9........these things sound great thru an iPod or iPad.
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
Skullcandy earbuds, really bass heavy


I used to own:
some really old Signet TK33 Electrets, very transparent, but didn't play very loud & rather bass shy
Sennheiser PX-100 ii, great for the bucks! Too bad I lost them. Very sad! :(
fake Audio Technica ATH-ESW10 Japan
AKG K241
some crappy old Koss 'phones with little pots on the cups

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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The Stax thread (New)
Chris J posted in this thread in High-end Audio Forum Yesterday at 4:42 pm | 23051 replies | 1530533 views
is the schiit valhalla a good 1st headphone tube amp?
Chris J posted in this thread in Headphone Amps (full-size) Yesterday at 9:18 am | 14 replies | 169 views
Passive centre speaker for surround
Chris J posted in this thread in Headphone Amps (full-size) 6/16/13 at 5:28pm | 3 replies | 32 views
New headphone amplifier from Bryston
Chris J posted in this thread in Headphone Amps (full-size) 6/16/13 at 9:43am | 1143 replies | 82905 views
The Beyerdynamic DT880 Appreciation / Discussion thread
Chris J posted in this thread in Headphones (full-size) 6/16/13 at 9:36am | 3579 replies | 251905 views
Matrix M-Stage amp review: simple, cheap, and excellent.
Chris J posted in this thread in Headphone Amps (full-size) 6/16/13 at 9:28am | 4035 replies | 441729 views
Q701 appreciation thread
Chris J posted in this thread in Headphones (full-size) 6/15/13 at 8:34am | 3135 replies | 146142 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, Audio Technica ATH-ESW9

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