germanium
germanium's Community Profile
| Location: |
Tacoma Washington |
| Forum Post Count: |
1518 |
| Join Date: |
9/24/06 |
| Last Online: |
3 hours, 42 minutes ago |
| About Me: |
55 year old truck driver. Have been interested in audio since I was 5 years old but could never affo |
| Interests (Hobbies, favorite activities, etc.): |
Computers, Electronics. |
| What I do for a living: |
Truck Driver |
| Headphone Inventory |
Etymotic Research ER4P with P to S converter Denon AH-D1001 headphones |
| Headphone Amp Inventory |
Headphone out from modded X-Fi titanium HD |
| Source Inventory |
Computer with Modded X-Fi titanium HD card |
| Cable Inventory |
Mostly home made |
| Power-Related Components |
Belkin 1500VA battery back up |
| Other Audio Equipment |
Modified M-Audio BX5 studio monitors. With modifications these are extremely high resolution. Stock they actually are not very good sounding. |
| Audio-Related Tweaks |
D.C. coupling most amps in my setup. Metalized film bypass caps in al componants of the audio chain. Removal of subsonic filters |
| Music Preferences |
Jazz, New age, classical &classic rock |
| Gear-Fi (Favorite Non-Audio Gear & Gadgets) |
Home built computer tweaking |
germanium's Recent Activity
The Xonar Essence STX Q/A, tweaking, impressions thread
germanium posted in this thread in Computer Audio 5/22/13 at 6:29pm | 4395 replies | 502791 views
HD 598 + (Sound Card or amp + Dac?)
germanium posted in this thread in Computer Audio 5/12/13 at 9:40am | 22 replies | 591 views
What voltage to use for amp?
germanium posted in this thread in Computer Audio 5/9/13 at 9:38am | 1 replies | 23 views
Review: Koss UR 55
germanium posted in this thread in Headphones (full-size) 5/7/13 at 1:58am | 49 replies | 7389 views
Hooking up to a sound card?
germanium posted in this thread in Computer Audio 4/25/13 at 4:37am | 3 replies | 82 views
Asus Xonar Essense STX Sound Card - Glitch with the right channel
germanium posted in this thread in Computer Audio 4/24/13 at 5:30am | 4 replies | 82 views
Tube vs Solid State Amps
germanium posted in this thread in Headphone Amps (full-size) 4/21/13 at 10:31am | 76 replies | 8542 views
Anyone tried the Koss UR-55?
germanium posted in this thread in Portable Headphones, Earphones and In-Ear... 4/17/13 at 9:34pm | 37 replies | 8998 views
X-FI Titanium HD modifications
germanium posted in this thread in Computer Audio 4/17/13 at 7:36pm | 13 replies | 4381 views
Hello - New to Audio
germanium posted in this thread in Computer Audio 4/17/13 at 12:29am | 2 replies | 102 views
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germanium's Forum Signature
Homebuilt computer with Core I7 stock clock. Xonar Essense STX modded (D.C. coupled RCA & bypassed analog power supply caps with mylar metalized films), Modded M-audio BX5's (same mods) with Tannoy TS10 subwoofer (D.C. coupled). Denon AH-D1001, Etymotic Research ER4P with P to S converter.
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