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About Me:

Getting ready to retire ... to a world full of serious CD (added in 2010: and vinyl!) listening

Interests (Hobbies, favorite activities, etc.):

Golf (added 2010: not anymore, my wife now beats me at this game, with her huge driver); cooking.

What I do for a living:

Computer Software; Statistician by training

Headphone Inventory

Stax - O2 Mk1; O2 Mk2 (SpritzerMod); 404; Lambda Sigs, Gammas.

Sennheiser - Orpheus HE90; Baby Orpheus HE60; HD800 (moon-audio balanced cable).

Grado - GS1000 (balanced by Stefan AudioArt/headphile pads); button RS-1; HF-2

beyer - T1 (moon-audio balanced re-cable); ; 880/600 (moon-audio balanced re-cable); 880/250.

Audio Technica - AD2000 (APS balanced re-cable); ES7 (moon-audio mod); ES5.

AKG - K1000; K701 (Headroom Cardas FatPipe balanced re-cable); K240DF (Zu balanced cable).

Ultrasone - Pro750.

Denon - D7000; D1001.

Headphone Amp Inventory

Desktop:

BHSE by Kerry (for O2's)
Senn HEV90 -- Orpheus
Balanced Beta 22 by YBM (for HD800)
Dual balanced custom M^3 by YBM (for AD2K's, K701s, others)
EF-1 (for the Grado's)
QES HPBA-2 Custom Balanced for 600 ohm phones (beyer T1 and 880/600)
SRM-717 (for the rest of the Stax and the Baby Orpheus)
SRM-1 Mk-2 (for the Gammas)
RWA Isabellina (specially built for the K1000)

Portable: iQube / RSA Shadow / Custom Mini^3 by YBM

Source Inventory

Wadia SACD CDP
Silent PC running ASIO with MAudio 192 SPDIF, plus USB via SonicWeld Diverter.
Transcriptor TT w/ vintage Shure V15-IV
Denon modded univeral CDP (with Vanity Board)
B&O CDP and TT with MMC2
Sony CDP (several)
Oppo universal CDP
Sony PS3 with SACD playback and digital out

DACS:
Wadia (access thru CDP)
Benchmark
RWA Isabellina (with HiRez Wolfson)
Matrix
beyer headroom.

Wadia iTransport.
5.5 Gen iPods and iMods

Cable Inventory

Silver Dragon, Zu, Kimber, BJC, Tara, AudioQuest, more ... not a big cable believer.

Power-Related Components

Furutech, LightSpeed, Tara

Other Audio Equipment

Hafler Vintage pre-amp & phono stage/ Carver Vintage / Lyngdorf AMP DSP combo / PS Audio A100 / Maggies / Meridian DSP / dbx EQ / Aphex / B&O Vintage / beyer Headzone

Audio-Related Tweaks

Sonifex, Kramer, RDL, and OneTouchMedia customized distribution system and patch panels for SPDIF and balanced audio switching.

Music Preferences

Symphonic / Opera / Classic Rock / Pop / Rap (I buy and list Opera, but do I really listen? Tommy doesn't count).

Plan to get in to Jazz at retirement (but I probably won't).

Interests (non-headphone)

Computer Software, Statistical Trials

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

Anything built by DeWalt. All my tools are yellow. But I don't know how to use them.

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