TopPop
TopPop's Community Profile
| Location: |
Champaign, IL |
| Forum Post Count: |
3029 |
| Last Online: |
on 4/8/12 |
| About Me: |
Ph.D. candidate, French Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Interests (Hobbies, favorite activities, etc.): |
Music, photography, reading/writing |
| What I do for a living: |
Phonetics research, teaching French |
| Headphone Inventory |
Now: Sennheiser HD-600 (w/Headphile BlackSilver V2) Westone UM3X Pioneer Monitor 10 Sony MDR-V6 Soundmagic P10 Sony MDR-EX85 (with JVC HA-FX33 Kramer mods) JVC HA-FX33 (Kramer modded) Pioneer SE-405 Then: Beyerdynamic DT-880 (2003) Alessandro MS-1 (modded, & w/bowls) Altec Lansing im716 (depodded) Sennheiser PX-100 Koss KSC75 (Kramer modded) JVC HA-RX900 (TopPop modded) Ultrasone HFI-650 (modded, w/DT-250 velour pads) Soundmagic PL-50 Sony MDR-D66 Eggos Head Direct RE0 |
| Headphone Amp Inventory |
Keces DA-152 USB DAC/amp Hotaudio Bit Perfect USB DAC/amp Xtra X-1 Then: Leckerton Audio UHA-3 USB DAC/amplifier Octavart THE ONE Little Dot MK-II Opera Consonance Cyber-10 Hotaudio HotUSB1 Meier Corda 3Move USB DAC/amplifier Fiio E5 RSA Tomahawk |
| Source Inventory |
Now: Dedicated PC w/Winamp, ASIO (wav) --> Keces DA-152 Portable: Sansa Fuze, 8GB + 16GB SDHC (256~320kbps VBR, Lame -V 0, Rockbox) Then: Laptop w/Winamp, ASIO --> Leckerton Audio UHA-3 Trends UD-10.1 --> Super Pro DAC707 Trends UD-10.1 --> Entech 205.2 Keces DA-151 --> Entech 205.2 Laptop w/Winamp, ASIO --> HotUSB1 Portable: Creative Labs Zen Micro 5 GB |
| Cable Inventory |
Headphone cable- Headphile BlackSilver V2 Sennheiser 1/4" cable |
| Audio-Related Tweaks |
DAC/amp sits on Herbie dots, which sits on marble slate, which sits on more Herbie dots. Isolation, baby! Music server is controlled through Winamp using the Bemused client on an old Nokia 3650. Sweet. |
| Music Preferences |
Folk/acoustic rock, blues, jazz, general rock... In that order. |
| Interests (non-headphone) |
Studies in Christian theology, especially re: the "Doctrines of Grace". I love reading works, and listening to sermons, by: C.H. Spurgeon, John Piper, R.C. Sproul, C.J. Mahaney, C.S. Lewis, Douglas Wilson, J.I. Packer, Mike Shea, etc. ...oh, and of course, the puritan writers! Jonathan Edwards, John Owen, William Bridge, etc. |
TopPop's Recent Activity
My #1 gripe with head-fi forum members
TopPop posted in this thread in Headphones (full-size) 2/27/12 at 11:32am | 406 replies | 12824 views
Sennheiser HD 600 Appreciation Thread
TopPop posted in this thread in Headphones (full-size) 2/26/12 at 3:27am | 1421 replies | 69655 views
Music for my M50's...
TopPop posted in this thread in Headphones (full-size) 6/22/10 at 9:21am | 21 replies | 952 views
Westone UM3X Appreciation Thread
TopPop posted in this thread in Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear... 6/15/10 at 6:13am | 3863 replies | 328802 views
Never forget your first...
TopPop posted in this thread in Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear... 5/25/10 at 7:23pm | 114 replies | 4436 views
[Deal?] Head-Direct RE0
TopPop posted in this thread in Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear... 5/15/10 at 10:00am | 21 replies | 1454 views
PSP + 16 Games + SD Card + Acc.: Over $800 for $300!
TopPop posted in this thread in Source Components For Sale / Trade ARCHIVE 5/13/10 at 12:10pm | 6 replies | 826 views
Can you recommend to me the single most comfortable, can't-even-tell-you're-wearing-them pair?
TopPop posted in this thread in Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear... 5/13/10 at 11:51am | 21 replies | 1072 views
Happy birthday coolbluewater, spookygonk, TopPop.
TopPop posted in this thread in Members' Lounge (General Discussion) 4/18/10 at 9:47am | 4 replies | 186 views
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Home: Keces DA-152 > Sennheiser HD-600 (w/BlackSilver V2), Pioneer Monitor 10
Portable: Sansa Fuze (Rockboxed) > Westone UM3X
I pity the foo' who doesn't give me feedback!
Portable: Sansa Fuze (Rockboxed) > Westone UM3X
I pity the foo' who doesn't give me feedback!
