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
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
Comparison of 5 popular cans in the $250-350 range - K701, HD650, DT990/600ohm, SR325is, D2000 - UPDATED!!!!
liamstrain posted in this thread in Headphones (full-size) 6/1/13 at 6:13am | 165 replies | 17575 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
