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qusp

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Location:

Woody Point, QLD, Australia

Forum Post Count:

7190

Last Online:

38 minutes ago

About Me:

audio bower bird

Interests (Hobbies, favorite activities, etc.):

travel, music production, reading

What I do for a living:

Owner of Twisted Cables, Cables, mods and audio design (Chef, graphic designer seems a lifetime ago)

Headphone Inventory

Westone UM3X
SE530 PTH (gone)
Sennheiser HD600
Woody modded Denon D2000 (gone)
KSC75 (TWcu recable ;)
JH13 (various cables, bal and SE)

Headphone Amp Inventory

RME fireface 400 firewire interface
iBasso D10 (ubermod)
iBasso FiQuest
The Wire
DAO
Lisa III (with LLP)
Larocco Diablo
Dual mono QRV08
2 stage power Jfet Circloton
Aleph JX

Source Inventory

i5 Mac Mini 2011 with OWC SSD->Titan multichannel USB to i2s convertor
Mac G5 Dual 2ghz, RME fireface 400, with behringer adat interface, yamaha 01V digital mixer.
Portable:
Buffalo II with OPA1632 and all SMD Zfoil and relcap film signal path
Rockboxed DIYMOD 5.5G IPOD W/32GB CF card MOD, 3G IPhone, iriver H132CF, Cowon X5L

Home:
Buffalo II, Buffalo32S, RME9632 (modded), COD, Dual Ackodac ESS9012 reference AKD12P with NTD1 IV (TX220Z power resistors) A123 powered SEN Jfet IV, power Jfet Circlotron, DAO.

Cable Inventory

Low profile piccolino blackgate LOD, various TWCu and SCSCAg LODs and interconnects, piccolino mini to mini, kimber AGSS low profile mini2mini, Twisted Cables Vortex TWCu cryo HD6XX cable (balanced and portable version)
Twisted Cables Custom SCSCAg JH13 cable with custom molded connectors and white gold pins, Silver Feather stranded silver JH13 cable, TwCu JH13 cable
SCSCAg coax, SCSCAg BNC, SCSCAg RME breakout cable with AES and BNC

etc etc

Power-Related Components

The Lawbreaker 12AWG Neotech UPOCC solid core copper with Oyaide 034 rhodium, Furutech SPC AC cable with Rhodium Furutech AU ends.

massive collection of discrete regulators and PSUs

Other Audio Equipment

KRK V6 pro active monitor speakers, KRK Rokit RP10S powered Sub, Micro Korg Synth/ controller/ VOCODER, RODE NT2A mic. Novation reMOTE 37SL midi controller.

in progress building full multiway digital crossover with digital in and out using i5 Mac Mini 2011 with OWC SSD running puremusic and allocator->Titan multichannel USB to i2s convertor->ackodacs with Pass F5X for highs and Aleph JX for bass.

adding 4 channels of 'the wire' Class AB power amp with Lateral Mosfets


2 ways biamped scanspeak 21W/8554K and D2904/9700

Audio-Related Tweaks

floating system-wide chassis earth (where possible)

Music Preferences

Electronica, Electro, House, Hip/trip hop, Dubstep, Punk, Ska, Alternative, IDM, Jazz, cheezy 80's pop and alternative

Interests (non-headphone)

Photography, Cooking, italian motorbikes, Jap imports, Reading

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Pictures Of Your Portable Rig (part XV)
qusp posted in this thread in Portable Source Gear 5/26/12 at 8:17am | 5218 replies | 713934 views
Brisbane 2012 Meet
qusp posted in this thread in Local / Regional Head-Fi Meets, Parties,... 5/26/12 at 1:33am | 61 replies | 1095 views
Damping factor. Why it is not always as important as some make it out to be.
qusp posted in this thread in Sound Science 4/12/12 at 7:19am | 127 replies | 2413 views
Some LME49600 implementations
qusp posted in this thread in DIY (Do-It-Yourself) Discussions 4/11/12 at 7:04am | 112 replies | 2070 views
Apogee Duet DAC ROCKS!
qusp posted in this thread in Dedicated Source Components 4/9/12 at 3:22pm | 523 replies | 87880 views
'End-game' headphone rigs, unicorns and other myths
qusp posted in this thread in High-end Audio Forum 4/7/12 at 10:18pm | 207 replies | 7749 views
Someone play a 30Hz tone and tell me the D7000 isn't less than D2000/D5000..
qusp posted in this thread in Computer Audio 3/28/12 at 12:22pm | 4 replies | 145 views
Altmann Tera Player
qusp posted in this thread in Portable Source Gear 3/21/12 at 6:46am | 26 replies | 1253 views

 

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Portable: iriver->D10->FiQ->TWCu wired JH13 

Transportable: Iriver->portable ES9018->SuSy opa IV/headamp->balanced JH13 w TWCu
Main Home : iPad remote->i5 Mac Mini w OWC Mercury SSD->Titan 4 x 32/384khz USB->i2s->Ackodac AKD12P->D1 IV->The Wire/DAO
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