SBranson

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Location:	Victoria, BC, Canada
Forum Post Count:	84
Join Date:	10/21/12
Last Online:	1 day ago
Interests (Hobbies, favorite activities, etc.):	Beyond music; playing, listening; I am a custom sword and knife maker.
What I do for a living:	Cabinetry/Millwork Custom Swords, Knives and Sheaths
Headphone Inventory	Beyerdynamic DT880 600ohm.. (finally... something that I can live with and make me not miss the T1 or HD800 too much... still I miss the Stax though.) Shure SE-315 Grado SR-80i Previously owned Sennheiser HD800 with Black Dragon Cable (the sheer scale is amazing. Detail galore except in one narrow lower midrange band where detail suffered. I would chalk it up to amping but other phones sound much better in that band but trail in the dust everywhere else. But maybe a little too audiophile. There's a tendency to listen to sounds over music sometimes) Sennheiser HD600 with Norse Audio Cable (good but the lower midrange killed it. smeared and indistinct) Beyerdynamic T1 (balanced) (overall a very good headphone that is very susceptible to the amp driving it. Musically my favourite I think. Once you get over the initial wow of the HD800s, the T1 are more musically satisfying) LCD2 Rev.1 (owned too early on and poorly amped to judge fairly but the soundstage was unnatural) Stax SR-507 (nice from an audiophile point of view but not as engaging as the Lambdas) Stax Lambda Signature (beautiful spacious midrange. buttery smooth yet detailed - a nice taste of what makes Stax special - These are probably the only phones I could imagine justifying having 2 set ups with this one specifically for baroque chamber music and female vocals) Denon D5000 (pre 2012 model and not worth the extra over the D2000) Denon D2000 (fun with good rumbling bass) Symphones Magnum V3.5 (a little piercing in the treble and small scale but not bad) AKG Q701 (loose in the bass but great mids to upper mids) AKG K702.65 (Couldn't listen to them. Unnaturally forward mids and lacking clarity or coherence ) Shure SE535 (wonderful sound. But I would rather put the $300+ towards having one good set of on ear headphones than keep these) Hi-FiMan Re-Zero
Headphone Amp Inventory	Bottlehead Crack with Speedball - Philips Miniwatt 7316 SQ - Tung-Sol 5998 ALO The Continental V2
Source Inventory	Ipod Classsic 160G Cypher Labs Algorhythm Solo
Cable Inventory	Whiplash CLAS/amp cables Norse Audio Reign series 8 strand OCC cable to valab 1/8 plug
Power-Related Components	Furutech power cord