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liamstrain

liamstrain's Community Profile

Location:

Chicago, IL

Forum Post Count:

3123

Join Date:

9/18/11

Last Online:

8 hours, 18 minutes ago

About Me:

Father, Husband, Roma, Fiddler, Artist, Chef, Mixologist, Curmudgeon, Atheist, Hat and Kilt-wearer

Interests (Hobbies, favorite activities, etc.):

Go/Weiqui/Baduk, Music, painting, photography

What I do for a living:

Art Director, Recording Engineer, Voice-over Artist, and Photographer

Headphone Inventory

Personal gear:
Sennheiser HD 600
Beyerdynamic DT880/600
Grado 225i (balanced/se mod)
Denon D2000
K240 Sextett
K240 Monitor (600 Ohm)
Sennheiser HD 25-1 ii
Audio Technica ATH-EW9 (clip on)
Fostex T50RP (stock with 840 pads)
Etymotic MC5

Headphone Amp Inventory

Personal gear:
Yulong d100
Bottlehead Crack
RSA P-51
Headroom Total BitHead
Hifiman EF2A

Source Inventory

Personal gear:
Wadia 170i
Gamma 1 DAC
iPod classic 80
MacBook Pro (Fidelia + Audio Hijack Pro with Redline Monitor and Para eq)

Cable Inventory

A bunch of DIY custom RCA and headphone cables - mostly Mogami (2534 and 2893 based) with Neutrik and Switchcraft connectors. Anything else is Monoprice (USB) or FiiO (LOD)

Other Audio Equipment

Home audio:
McIntosh 5100
McIntosh MR71
Dual 1019
Polk 3300 Monitor/Sub
Custom Full range back loaded horns (Fostex drivers)

Studio audio:
Adam Audio ARTist 5 monitors
Blue and AKG Microphones
Motu UltraLite Mk3 Digital Audio Interface
ProTools, SoundBooth, AHPro, Redline Monitor and EQ

Music Preferences

Classical, Jazz, BeBop, Rock, Folk/World/Traditional, Hip-Hop, Punk

Interests (non-headphone)

Architecture, Photography, Go, Philosophy, Linguistics, Astronomy, Theoretical Physics, mechanical engineering, tinkering, archeology, anthropology, making-stuff.

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

Pocketwatches, Cigars, Whiskey, Absinthe, Vintage rangefinder cameras

liamstrain's Recent Activity

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Review: Yulong D100 DAC/amp - reference quality with a reasonable price
liamstrain posted in this thread in Dedicated Source Components 6/13/13 at 2:30pm | 1133 replies | 164843 views
Crack;Bottlehead OTL
liamstrain posted in this thread in Headphone Amps (full-size) 6/12/13 at 5:42pm | 1889 replies | 170391 views
USB cable and Sound Quality
liamstrain posted in this thread in Sound Science 6/6/13 at 6:51pm | 782 replies | 31168 views
Mac OS X Music Players - alternatives to iTunes
liamstrain posted in this thread in Computer Audio 6/5/13 at 7:26pm | 1884 replies | 225552 views
Testing audiophile claims and myths
liamstrain posted in this thread in Sound Science 5/29/13 at 11:17pm | 2022 replies | 152614 views
Headphone Sightings 2
liamstrain posted in this thread in Headphones (full-size) 5/28/13 at 7:28am | 9083 replies | 619457 views
knife-fi?
liamstrain posted in this thread in Gear-Fi: Non-Audio Gear and Gadgets 5/18/13 at 7:39pm | 1555 replies | 139258 views
Phiaton Giveaway Contest! All New Bridge MS 500 Headphones!
liamstrain posted in this thread in Sponsor Announcements and Deals 5/7/13 at 3:21pm | 228 replies | 6030 views
DIY Power Cable
liamstrain posted in this thread in DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Discussions 4/14/13 at 9:03pm | 9 replies | 424 views

 

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liamstrain's Forum Signature

 

Streetlevel Photography - Architecture and Product Photography Studio 

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AMPs/DACs: Bottlehead Crack | Yulong D100 | Gamma 2 | RSA P-51 | Total Bithead

Headphones: HD 600 | DT 880/600 | 225i | D-2000 | K240 Sextett MP | T50-RP | DT 1350 | HD 25-1 II | ATH-EW9

liamstrain's Lists

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Amplification and DACs 7 Headphone Amps
Last Updated 2/26/12
Current Headphones 10 Headphones
Last Updated 2/26/12
Studio Collection 7 Other
Last Updated 1/5/12

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