NeilPeart

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Location:	Bay Area
Forum Post Count:	1886
Join Date:	6/17/03
Last Online:	59 minutes ago
About Me:	Nerd
Interests (Hobbies, favorite activities, etc.):	Art, Live Music, Film, Outdoors, Technology
What I do for a living:	Engineer at aerospace company
Headphone Inventory	Ranking of Top 15 ‘Phones I currently own: HD800 LCD-3 LCD-2 HE-500 HE-6 K1000 T1 D7000 HD650 HD600 Momentum Q701 DT880-600 K702 DT990-600 Previously Owned: AKG: K1000 Q701 K702 K701 K601 K501 K500 K401 K340 K271S K240S MkII K240M K240DF K81DJ Audeze: LCD-3 LCD-2 v3 Rosewood LCD-2 v3 Bamboo Audio-Technica: ATH-L3000 ATH-W5000 ATH-W2002 ATH-W1000 ATH-W100 ATH-W11JPN ATH-W11R ATH-AD2000 ATH-A1000 ATH-A900 ATH-M50 Beyerdynamic: T1 DT990-600 DT990-2003 DT880-600 DT880-2003 DT770-600 DT770-2003 DT770-80 DT250-250 DT250-80 DT235 DT231 Denon: AH-D7000 AH-D5000 AH-D2000 Fostex: T50RP Factory T50RP Mad Dog T50RP ZMF Grado: HP-1 HP-2 PS-1 GS-1000i MS-Pro RS-1 Vintage RS-1i RS-1 RS-2 MS-2 SR-325i SR-225 MS-1 SR-125 SR-80 SR-60i SR-60 HF-2 HF-1 HiFiMAN: HE-6 HE-500 HE-400 Koss: KSC75 KSC35 PortaPro SportaPro Sennheiser: HE60 HD800 HD650 HD600 HD580 Jubilee HD580 HD558 HD555 HD380 Pro HD280 Pro HD201 HD25 Amperior Silver PX200 PX100 MX460 MX400 Shure: SRH440 SRH840 SRH940 SRH1440 SRH1840 Sony: MDR-SA5000 MDR-CD3000 MDR-F1 MDR-7506 MDR-V6 MDR-V600 Stax: SR-Lambda Signature SR-404 Limited SR-404 SR-303 Ultrasone: Edition 9 PRO 900 HFI-700 Westone 4
Headphone Amp Inventory	Home Office: Benchmark DAC1-USB (for D7000) Home Studio: FirstWatt F1 speaker amp (for K1000 and HE-6) M3 w/OPA627 + STEPS (for DT250 and K271S, T50RP Mad Dog) Schiit Mjolnir (for HD800, HD650/600, HE-500, LCD-2, T50RP Mad Dog) Office PIMETA w/AD8620 (for ATH-M50) Portable: FiiO E11 (for K81DJ, Momentum and Westone 4)
Source Inventory	Benchmark DAC1-USB E-MU 1616M Logitech Squeezebox Touch (enhanced digital output supports 192kHz) M-Audio Transit Music Hall MMF-5 w/Grado Platinum Oppo BDP-105
Cable Inventory	Belden and Canare wiring made by Blue Jeans Cable 14AWG Volex shielded power cables
Power-Related Components	Monster HTPS7000 MkII (Home Theater) Monster HTPS7000 MkII (Home Studio) Monster HTS3500 MkII (Family Room)
Other Audio Equipment	Family Room: Onix Reference 1 MkII Home Studio: Emotiva Stealth 6 Office: Swans M200 Theater: Emotiva ERD-1 Emotiva XPA-2 & XPA-3 Onkyo PR-SC885P Thiel CS2.3
Audio-Related Tweaks	Hockey pucks Vibrapods Well-placed rugs and bookshelves (with actual books!)
Music Preferences	Everything (yes, even hip hop and country) Bach-Bjork-Daft Punk-Dre-John Coltrane-Joni Mitchell-Mahler-Miles Davis-Opeth-Porcupine Tree-Zappa Everything in between: if it sounds good - it is good! Top Systems I've Heard: 1. Sennheiser HE90 + Headamp Aristaeus/Singlepower ES-2/Sennheiser HEV90 2. Sennheiser HD800 + Schiit Mjolnir/Beta22 3. Sony MDR-R10 + Singlepower SDS-XLR/Cary CAD-300SEI 4. Stax SR-Ω + Headamp Blue Hawaii SE/SRM-T2 (DIY) 5. Audeze LCD-3 + Schiit Mjolnir 6. Audeze LCD-2 + Schiit Mjolnir 7. Sennheiser HE60 + Headamp Aristaeus/Singlepower ES-2/Sennheiser HEV90 8. HiFiMAN HE-500 + Schiit Mjolnir 9. HiFiMAN HE-6 + FirstWatt F1 10. Stax SR-007 MkI + Headamp Blue Hawaii SE 11. AKG K1000 + First Watt F1 12. Grado HP-2 + Melos SHA-Gold 13. Audio Technica ATH-L3000 + ATH-DHA3000 14. Grado PS-1 + Singlepower SDS-XLR 15. Sony Qualia 010 + Dynamight Notable cans I haven't heard: Fostex TH-900 Grado PS-1000 Stax SR-009
Interests (non-headphone)	Backpacking/Hiking/Outdoors Live Music/Live Art/Bad Poetry Tolerating Painting/Drawing/Bad Sculpting Jamming/Recording/Bad Singing Reading/Film Watching/Bad TV Appreciating
Gear-Fi (Favorite Non-Audio Gear & Gadgets)	Film Watching (Pioneer Kuro Elite PRO-101FD, Sony KD-34XS955) Fountain Pens (Lamy, Pelican, Pilot, Waterman) Photography (nice collection of Nikkor lenses) Watches (variety of Citizen, Seiko, Tag)