TopPop
TopPop's Community Profile
| Location: |
Champaign, IL |
| Forum Post Count: |
3033 |
| Join Date: |
1/28/05 |
| Last Online: |
2 weeks, 4 days ago |
| 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 Fiio E10 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 Fiio E10 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) |
Photography (landscape and astrophotography) |
TopPop's Recent Activity
REVIEW: Keces DA-151 DAC 800+ hours burn-in
TopPop posted in this thread in Computer Audio 4/11/13 at 12:38pm | 308 replies | 74989 views
Fiio E10 + Westone UM3X = great desktop system!
TopPop posted in this thread in Computer Audio 4/8/13 at 11:18am | 2 replies | 136 views
Fiio E10 (Mint Condition)
TopPop posted in this thread in Source Components For Sale / Trade 3/29/13 at 3:31am | 2 replies | 314 views
My #1 gripe with head-fi forum members
TopPop posted in this thread in Headphones (full-size) 2/27/12 at 11:32am | 502 replies | 19176 views
Sennheiser HD 600 Appreciation Thread
TopPop posted in this thread in Headphones (full-size) 2/26/12 at 3:27am | 3370 replies | 184288 views
Music for my M50's...
TopPop posted in this thread in Headphones (full-size) 6/22/10 at 9:21am | 21 replies | 1033 views
Westone UM3X Appreciation Thread
TopPop posted in this thread in Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear... 6/15/10 at 6:13am | 4100 replies | 365260 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 | 4597 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 | 1641 views
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TopPop's Forum Signature
Home: Keces DA-152 > Sennheiser HD-600 (w/BlackSilver V2)
Office: Fiio E10 > Westone UM3X / Sony MDR-V6
Portable: Sansa Fuze (Rockboxed) > Westone UM3X
I pity the foo' who doesn't give me feedback!
