devouringone3

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Location:	Canada, QC
Forum Post Count:	1426
Join Date:	8/27/11
Last Online:	1 day, 9 hours ago
About Me:	23 year-old male; http://www.youtube.com/devouringone3
Interests (Hobbies, favorite activities, etc.):	In order of importance: – Video games – Music – Touhou, mangas and anime
Headphone Inventory	(pads = ear adapter comfy, bowl, bagel = Grado S, L, G cushions/pads, respectively IEM = in-ear monitor FR = frequency response HD414 pads = Sennheiser HD414 pads PX100 pads = Sennheiser PX100 pads HP 1000 = Grado HP 1000 # = serial number supra = supra-aural OEM = original executive manufacturer) In chronological order: – "Brand/Company" ± "SERIES" "MODEL-xxx" ± "(details --an edition, a special color, etc.-- if any)"; ± "status/sold/broke/repaired/condition"; ± "mod"; "type" if different than full sized circumaural; "review and miscellaneous notes" (Summer 2002, for my 13th birthday I spend my only and first 300 dollars on a Sony Walkman mini-disk player. I was already serious about how I wanted to listen to my music, an activity that I started doing at age 11) – 2x Sony MDR-E808; 1 "broken" (loss of one channel); earbud; excellent, both pairs given with a Sony mini-disc player – JVC HA-E53; clip-on; they are real "clip onto", unlike the Koss KSC-75 which don't clip. Super comfortable and light, a lot more than a KSC-75. The first headphones I ever purchased (that isn't a pack-in accessory), many years ago. Barely any bass, it probably has to do with the smaller size of the driver (30 mm) and the limits of this method for ear-coupling (airy foam pads, no way of channeling bass, no pressure exerted on the ear). Overall sound is clear and undistorted but doesn't get close to the evenly balance (with bass) of a KSC-75. (Summer 2006) – Sony MDR-EX81LP; returned; hook IEM; hook was too small/tight for my ear and it would constantly pull the headphone out of my ear, loosing the seal/bass – Sennheiser CX 300 (Foster 382326); IEM; excellent, could have more clarity and refinements, my personal preference over the CX 500 G4ME (which I have following in this list..), keep in mind that as of now I still have little to no experience with other IEMs in general (which have gotten a lot better since this time, summer 2005), using Head-Fi almost exclusively for fullsize open cans – Creative EP-630 (Foster 382326); lost; IEM; very much the same OEM IEM as CX 300, included with my laptop – Sennheiser CX 500 G4ME (Foster 382326 derived); IEM; excellent, like CX 300 but with more bass – Razer Carcharias; gaming headset; "U" shaped FR, not Hi-Fi or audiophile sounding but very good, lacks extension, plenty good microphone, great value and comfort (Enter Head-Fi.org, September 2011) – Koss KSC75; parts-express.com headband (a must, http://www.parts-express.com/pe/s... stock pads covered with stock HD414 pads; ear hook type; excellent, plenty bass but requires tightening up by adding ear-distance with pads or using adjusted Koss PortaPro headband – Grado RS1 (#1049); sold, APS V3 recabled; supra; amazing, less bass and more highs than nowadays RS1, giving it huge synergy with flat pads, a very good year for the RS1 and for Grado in general, all of the owners loved that pair, I sold it because it sounded too similar to my SR325i, although a bit more refined with better, more exciting, and crispy highs (believed by kite7 to have the best highs from Grado) – Grado SR325i (#1789); supra; great, the brightest Grado, good synergy (+bass, +details, -fatigue) with taped bowls, most probably due to the metal hybrid cup design, quarter modded PX100 pads under for comfort, I'm loving them with flat pads – Direct Sound EX-29 (white special edition); hearing protection; boring, lacking in extension, clarity and details, relatively clear and neutral – Fostex T50RP; semi-open; cups dampened with http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fostex-...; very good, insane clarity, neutral, detailed, can play loud, not too efficient, my mod could use some more bass – Blox M2C; earbud; amazing, very tight bass, great details, highs, and instrument separation, not isolating at all, not good for noisy environment, no bleed, too big for one of my ears (painfully so, and I can't adapt) – Razer Pro\|Tone m250 (Foster 388404); clip-on; very bad, no bass, strident highs, painful on almost all volumes, weird resonance/timbre, can't resolve most volumes – Yurbuds Ironman Endure (white); hook earbud with silicon "enhancers"; bad, looks and sounds like an Apple earbud Chinese clone and probably is, with enhancers on the sound becomes ultra bad, so muffled you can't even hear the cymbals or understand the words anymore, and fit is problematic, ear hook fits nicely and holds well, sound, fit and comfort are all better without the enhancers, it's a gimmick... sorry – Grado SR100-0-r (SR100 with red lettering and HP 1000 drivers in it, Grado Signature Laboratory Standard Audio Cable); supra; ultra amazing with taped bowl pads, a tad less resolution and bass than HP 1000, but still impressively representative of the entire HP 1000 experience – Grado SR200 (pink transitional drivers, factory mismatched [one silver and one black magnet plate]); supra; okay with taped bowls, needs PX100 pads to help with comfort of the stiffer vintage headbands, severe deficiency in bass, great highs, driver mismatch doesn't actually sound mismatched – Grado SR325-b (SR325 with black cups); sold; good with flats, typical Grado semi-vintage sound, superb Grado bass, but highs quickly grow out of control with bowls – Grado HP2i ("i" for improved by Joseph Grado, dual Joseph Grado Signature Ultra-Wide Bandwidth Reference Cable); supra; ultra amazing, personal reference and Joseph Grado's personal statement, refinements>HP 1000>SR325-0~SR100-0, very enjoyable, great build quality, comfort is like typical Grado (more like a SR325i) "insert review here after critical A/Bing" – KODA^2 MK II (T50RP mod, "König's Ortho Dynamic Acrylic Headphones" by Lokesen); closed; okay, deep bass, but congested, closed sounding, lack of clarity, incomplete project – Grado HP1 (Joseph Grado Signature Ultra-Wide Bandwidth Reference Cable, reterminated to four pins XLR Neutrik X-HD plug) and HP2 (that got upgraded, see above); supra; ultra-amazing with taped bowl pads, handles higher volumes like a champion, super resolving yet not analytical, quite possibly the most transparent headphone, no real difference with stock HP2, "++" or "--" produce exactly the same sound, "+-" and "-+" sounds very unusual and undesirable, distorts the soundstage -- Grado SR325-0-g (SR325 with black cups, gold lettering and HP 1000 drivers); supra; ultra amazing with taped bowl pads, basically on par with SR100-0, but a barely noticeable bit less bass – Grado RS1 (Pre-Super Vintage, with a bold "A" marked on the inside of the cups and a 8 conductors cable); supra; great with bowl pads, the exact opposite of Grado's usual balance, more bass than treble, very little fatigue, good for low volumes, poor for high volumes (strong resonance spikes, but have yet to try flat pads, could fix many things), bass bleeds a little into the midrange, lack of resolution and details (sounds a bit old in that regard), great all rounder, rarest Grado sound of all (warm) – Fostex Kotori 201 (>Creative Aurvana Live!>Denon-1000/1001; Foster 443741); closed; amazing, the most extended FR and bass on headphones that I own so far, does everything and all genres/instruments very "right", not as much clarity as a open headphone (a bit closed-headphone/"claustro" sounding), doesn't gain much if anything from amplification, very comfortable and light, bass emphasis and slight U-shaped response, completely customizable color scheme: http://i881.photobucket.com/album... – Symphones Audio Magnum ("an improvement over the v4" drivers [to quote Rhydon; don't know if they are v5], with [?]v2-2.5 inner chambers [#017], silver-black-silver metal parts color, chrome SR325is cups, Grado leather headband, with DIY 8 conductors clear Teflon tubed bare silver wire cable (double litz braided, nylon multifilament before the Y split); supra; they sound incredibly amazing, and superior to my Grado SR325i in most ways: sound signature is mostly the same the but treble is a lot smoother/better, bass is deeper, harder/better, and the FR is less U-shaped, sound is cleaner, drivers are better matched, weight is not a comfort issue for me with bowls on PX100 pads – TDK MT-300; IEM; Better in every categories than my old Sennheiser CX 300 and CX 500, very good ergonomics – 2x pairs of limba wooden Grado cups made to house HP 1000 drivers, finished with boiled linseed oil and a coat of wax-free shellac, made by Sensei thelostMIDrange. Auditioned: – Buying list (headphones, DACs, Amps and other parts): – JGSP HP P/S-1 Regular Dual Power Supply, or buying and making myself the equivalent (which I'm currently doing) – Phase Tech Digital EPA-007 headphone amplifier Considering list: – Paradox by LFF
Headphone Amp Inventory	Headphone amplifiers and digital to analog converters (DACs) In chronological order: – Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Notebook DAC – ADL (Alpha Design Lab, Furutech) GT40 DAC and/or amp – Joseph Grado HPA-1 amp – Joseph Grado HPA-2 amp Returned: – Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi HD (2011) (I haven't even its box; got the following item instead -->) – E-mu 0204 USB (2011) (no driverless functionality, limited to USB power, I wanted a 0404) – FiiO D3 DAC (2012) (sounded very bad even when compared to just my laptop's headphone jack, couldn't playback higher than 48kHz; cheap price, cheap sound)
Source Inventory	Audio storage that can play music In chronological order: – Panasonic Cassette Player RQ-SW33V – Sony Net MD Walkman MZ-N505S – Creative Zen Vision:M (30GB) – Dell Inspiron 1720 (160+320GB) + 1externalTB – Modchipped Xbox (250GB) – Samsung Galaxy S (16+64[microSD]GB)
Cable Inventory	In chronological order: – Sennheiser 8 to 3.5 mm adapter (ad 092595 part) – Copartner A to B USB – Moon Audio Black Dragon 2 feet long adapter; Neutrik XX four pins XLR jack to Oyaide 3.5 mm plug – Joseph Grado Signature Ultra-Wide Bandwidth Reference Cable; RCA interconnects, 2 meters – Custom made Tasker C128 OFC Microphone Cable with Radioshack gold plugs; TRS extension cable
Power-Related Components	– AKE 54 mm USB 3.0 active ExpressCard – (Want to buy:) Joseph Grado Signature Product Regulated Dual Power Supply, PS-H/P-1
Other Audio Equipment	Chronological order: – JVC MX-K5 Compact Stereo System – Creative Labs GigaWorks T20w series II 2.0 computer speakers – Razer Mako 2.1 bi-amplified Multimedia Speaker System – Tokyoflash Kisai Escape C Bluetooth headset Other other audio equipment: – Yamaha ERG121C2 electric guitar
Audio-Related Tweaks	In chronological order: – Silenced Topre Realforce 87U keyboard – 2x Noiseless JSCO gaming mouse – Wireless (full lossless audio data bandwidth) desktop computer speakers set up: (GigaWorks T20w + Sound Blaster X-Fi Notebook) – Nanuk 930 headphone-rig carrying case – 120 Ohms adding impedance adapter, to lower the hiss noise with sensitive headphones on my HPA-1&2 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/IMPEDANCE... /> – 2x Wool snap-on headband (http://www.ebay.com/itm/321008464... comfort for my Grados
Music Preferences	In no particular order, these happen to be recurring genres in my 2516 tracks/517 artists "master list". I do have more and newer music that I need to listen to and sort, but I'm not counting in their genres for now. I'm constantly expending my master list but not the other way around; all of these "certified" songs are guaranteed to get my appreciation every time I listen to them, it's a lifelong best-of collection. In order of relative abundance, life importance and frequency of listening combined: – Video game chip tunes (music from the 8 and 16-bit video game consoles era) – Metal: instrumental, synth, industrial, death melodic, epic, power, technical, alternative, nu, neo-classical, experimental, symphonic, speed, rapcore, groove, sludge, thrash – Touhou music – Progressive: metal, rock – Doujin video game music – Punk: pop, skate, ska, hardcore – Rock: instrumental, melodic, pop, fusion – Nostalgic animated kid's TV show generic tunes – few, but just as loved and important: Pop, Classical, J-Pop, K-Pop – fewer: Techno: J-Core, Electro – fewest (but still as important): Modern video game and movie OSTs
Gear-Fi (Favorite Non-Audio Gear & Gadgets)	In chronological order: – Osiris D3 Skate shoes – Emulation (of old video games) – Trikke T12 – Mechanical keyboards