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Smeckles

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Location:

Singapore

Forum Post Count:

130

Join Date:

10/18/11

Last Online:

4 minutes ago

About Me:

I believe everything I read on the internet.

What I do for a living:

medical device engineering and clinical research

Headphone Inventory

IEM: UE700, Westone UM2 (office and gym), ACS T1 customs
Cans: Grado GS1000, HiFi Man HE500, Stax SR-009

Headphone Amp Inventory

Yamamoto SC HA02
SPL Phonitor
Cavalli Audio Liquid Fire
NuForce Icon HDP
GoVibe PortaTube +
Headroom Aristaeus

Source Inventory

Sources:
IMac running Pure Music
Windows: J River Music + JPlay plugin
EMM Labs CDSA
Ipod Classic (G7)

DACs:

EMM Labs DAC-2X
NuForce Icon HDP (bedroom)
CypherLabs Algorhythm Solo (mobile)

Cable Inventory

Interconnect/Speaker: Nordost Frey, Wireworld Platinum Starlight USB
Elemental Frequencies LOD and 6mms
Shunyata Black Mambas for amps and Anacondas for sources

Power-Related Components

Quantum Qbase

Other Audio Equipment

ASR Emitter II Blue (2007, with gold PCBs)
Maggie 3.7s

Stuff I've tried:
Aesthetix Romulus CD player (a loaner, but they will have to pry it from my cold dead fingers to get it back; the best soundstaging DAC I have tried)
Abbingdon Music Research CD 77
Antelope Gold w/Voltikus
Berkeley Audio Designs Alpha DAC w/USB Converter
Audio Research DSi-200 amp (stay away!)
Goldmund Telos 390.2 (audio jewelry)

Audio-Related Tweaks

SolidTech RadiusSolo racks
SolidTech Disks of Silence

Music Preferences

No country, no gangsta rap. Otherwise, i'll give it a play or twenty.

Interests (non-headphone)

I read. A lot.

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

15 or so guitars (PRS, Fender, EVH, James Trussart, Santa Cruz, Gretsch, Martin) and about half that many amps (Swart, Carr, Marshall, VHT, Matchless, Fender) and pedals as colorful and plentiful as an orchid garden.

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New Boards of Canada album "Tomorrow's Harvest" coming out June 11
Smeckles posted in this thread in Music Yesterday at 5:09 am | 5 replies | 98 views
How to get high quality music/sound files?
Smeckles posted in this thread in Music 5/15/13 at 6:18am | 7 replies | 393 views
Worst recorded/Mastered Albums
Smeckles posted in this thread in Music 5/13/13 at 11:50pm | 78 replies | 7181 views
Massive CD Purchase
Smeckles posted in this thread in Music 5/10/13 at 2:41am | 10 replies | 217 views
Artists You Hate And Can't Stand.
Smeckles posted in this thread in Music 3/20/13 at 2:46am | 46 replies | 888 views
best DAC EVER MADE?
Smeckles posted in this thread in Dedicated Source Components 3/5/13 at 9:35pm | 61 replies | 3872 views
Anyone experienced Cantata Music Center?
Smeckles posted in this thread in High-end Audio Forum 2/27/13 at 9:04pm | 3 replies | 132 views
Mods for SR-009
Smeckles posted in this thread in High-end Audio Forum 2/14/13 at 8:42pm | 99 replies | 3734 views
Audio Research Référence DAC "Digital Media Bridge"
Smeckles posted in this thread in High-end Audio Forum 2/13/13 at 5:20am | 6 replies | 771 views

 

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