Magick Man
Daddy Warbucks
Magick Man's Community Profile
| Location: |
East Coast, USA |
| Forum Post Count: |
3857 |
| Join Date: |
1/4/12 |
| About Me: |
The details of my life are quite inconsequential. |
| Interests (Hobbies, favorite activities, etc.): |
Reading, collecting books, massive petrolhead, Hi-Fi, Head-Fi, playing guitar and piano. |
| What I do for a living: |
Retired |
| Headphone Inventory |
In rough approximation of preference: STAX SR-009 STAX SR-007 early Mk1 Fostex TH900 (balanced termination) STAX 4070 Grado HP-1000 HP-2 (balanced termination) Sennheiser HE60 (STAX termination) HiFiMAN HE-6 (balanced termination) Fostex TH600 Koss ESP/950 (STAX termination) Sennheiser HD800 (balanced termination) Fostex T50RP - Rastapants modded (balanced termination) Grado PS500 w/ bagels (balanced termination) Denon AH-D5000 (last rev, damped, J$ pads, and balanced termination) Beyerdynamic T1 (balanced termination) STAX SR-003 AKG K240 Sextett Yamaha YH-100 AKG K702 65th Anniversary Ed. Sennheiser HD650 (silver drivers) (balanced termination) Grado SR-60i (taped bowls and mesh mod) V-MODA True Blood V-80 MB Quart QP220 AKG K422 ----------- Denon AH-D7000 (markl mod) - Wife's House of Marley Exodus - Wife's Sennheiser HD598 - Wife's |
| Headphone Amp Inventory |
Cary Audio SLI-80 Signature F1 (quad vintage Genalex Gold Lion KT88s) Antelope Audio Zodiac Gold w/ Voltikus Woo WES (quad Shuguang 50yrs Treasure "Black Bottle" 6CA7-Z) Eddie Current Balancing Act (duo KR Audio PX4) STAX SRM-717 Fostex HP-P1 Kenwood Basic M2A HiFiMAN EF-5 (Mullard M8136 & OPA627s) Woo WEE Matrix CUBE Schiit Magni Objective2/ODAC combo CMoy RA1 (JRC4556 dual op-amp, 18V rechargeable, in Ouija tin) Little Dot I+ (Voskhod 6J1Ps & OPA2107) Yaqin MC5881A - Wife's |
| Source Inventory |
Antelope Audio Zodiac Gold w/ Voltikus Weiss MAN301 network transport w/ DAC202 board Linn Sondek Unidisk 2.1 Audioquest Dragonfly Onkyo P-3000R Fostex HP-P1 Little Dot DAC I Matrix CUBE Schiit Modi Pioneer Elite PD-F17 CD changer McIntosh MT10 w/ Clearaudio Stradivari V2 cart Denon DP-62L turntable w/ Stanton 681 EEE Mk III cart MS Phonomena II phono preamp Cambridge iD100 iPod/iPad dock ASUS Xonar Essence ST iPod Classic iPhone 5 My self-built Hackintosh running Win7 64 and OS X |
| Cable Inventory |
Self-built interconnects using 22AWG silver with PTFE dielectric Audioquest Gibraltar speaker cables Transparent MusicLink Ultra RCA interconnects Transparent Premium PowerLink Various Monoprice, AR, and Blue Jeans cables |
| Other Audio Equipment |
Wilson Watt/Puppy Series 8 Wilson Watch Center Series 2 McIntosh MX151 McIntosh MC60 (x2) (NOS `56 Genalex/Mullard KT88s) McIntosh MC402 McIntosh MC205 OPPO BDP-105 Accuphase E-560 OPPO BDP-93 Integra Research RDC-7.1 Integra Research RDA-7 McIntosh MA6100 B&W N802s B&W CDS6s (x4) Swan Diva 2.1s Sony CDP-C85ES Monitor Silver RX1s Marantz 2240B Custom EBS aligned sub with dual 15" Titanic MkIII drivers and 1000W amp, tuned to 12Hz (aka. The Fridge) |
| Music Preferences |
Anything but Hip Hop, Rap, and modern Country |
| Gear-Fi (Favorite Non-Audio Gear & Gadgets) |
Cars Too many to conveniently list. Ask, I may have one. Wife's micro/mini car collection 1968 Morris Mini Cooper S, white & black w/ Caribbean blue int. 1960 Austin-Healey Bugeye Sprite, BRG w/ tan int. 1959 Fiat 500 Bianchina cabriolet, red & white w/ red and white int. 1959 Nash Metropolitan, midnight blue & white w/ white & blue int. 1956 BMW Isetta 300, cherry red & white, w/ red & white int. 1950 Crosley Super Sport, cream w/ red int. 1941 Fiat 500 Topolino, midnight blue & sky blue w/ sky blue int. Bikes 2008 Harley-Davidson Fat Boy custom 2006 Von Dutch Kustom Dutch Angel w/ sidecar 1970 Vespa 150cc w/ sidecar |
Magick Man's Recent Activity
An audiophile and petrolhead's musings: in the hi-fidelity, first class, traveling set
Magick Man posted in this thread in Members' Lounge (General Discussion) Today at 6:30 pm | 3123 replies | 51056 views
New Abyss planar magnetic headphone
Magick Man posted in this thread in High-end Audio Forum Today at 8:05 am | 197 replies | 6841 views
The diary entries of a little girl who is now 30! ~ Part 2
Magick Man posted in this thread in Members' Lounge (General Discussion) 5/17/13 at 7:13pm | 12429 replies | 188745 views
Why do CDs sound better than loss less audio files?
Magick Man posted in this thread in Sound Science 5/17/13 at 8:01am | 94 replies | 4893 views
Denon D7100?!
Magick Man posted in this thread in Headphones (full-size) 5/16/13 at 7:35am | 1634 replies | 86591 views
Funny comments from the forums.
Magick Man posted in this thread in Currawong 5/15/13 at 12:16pm | 380 replies | 27272 views
What if you could only have one headphone....or two. What would you choose?
Magick Man posted in this thread in Headphones (full-size) 5/14/13 at 9:31am | 132 replies | 4246 views
car-fi
Magick Man posted in this thread in Gear-Fi: Non-Audio Gear and Gadgets 5/13/13 at 5:45pm | 1008 replies | 46638 views
Fostex TH900 Impressions & Discussion Thread
Magick Man posted in this thread in High-end Audio Forum 5/9/13 at 12:28pm | 4404 replies | 257455 views
Themed Monthly Avatar Committee (TMAC) discussion thread
Magick Man posted in this thread in Members' Lounge (General Discussion) 5/6/13 at 3:30pm | 5142 replies | 55631 views
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