yashicaman
yashicaman's Community Profile
| Location: |
Western Pennsylvania |
| Forum Post Count: |
602 |
| Last Online: |
on 6/5/11 |
| About Me: |
I was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. Married and have 2 young lads. I have a beard. |
| Interests (Hobbies, favorite activities, etc.): |
Filmmaking, composing music, playing guitar, music, writing fiction, cooking, travel. |
| What I do for a living: |
Professor of Sociology |
| Headphone Inventory |
AKG 301 Grado SR-60 Grado SR-325i Koss Pro 4AA (circa 1974--my second set of cans, the first being something really cheap from The Army Navy Store in Regina, Saskatchewan). Sennheiser HD-202 Sennheiser HD-595 Yuin PK1 |
| Headphone Amp Inventory |
Decware Zen Head Headroom Total Bithead |
| Source Inventory |
Philips LHH1000 CD transport and dac. Philips MP3/Wave player of some sort Sony SACD/CD/DVD player Pioneer 25 CD changer Thorens 145 mkII turntable with okay Ortofon MC cartridge Apple Shuffle Rotel Cassette deck Luxman K-15 cassette deck Nakamichi 250 cassette deck Revox A77 reel-to-reel deck Rotel am/fm tuner |
| Cable Inventory |
Stuff by Monster, Vampire Wire, Grado, Custom House Cable, RCA, MIT, and so on. Some of it is very good, some not so good. I don't get too hung up on cable. |
| Power-Related Components |
McIntosh MA5100 integrated amp Adcom 565 pre-amp Dynaco Pas 3 preamp Decware Zen amp Quad Active 12L speakers with 2 amps built into the speakers. Yamaha Home Theatre Receiver |
| Other Audio Equipment |
Quad Active 12 L speakers AR M1 speakers Gallo Micro speakers Radio Shack speakers (small metal clad used as surround speakers). BIC 12 inch powered subwoofer AMC 8 inch powered subwoofer (B1-20 Ace-Bass). BIC centre channel speaker |
| Audio-Related Tweaks |
Got my beard trimmed. |
| Music Preferences |
World Music Folk Avant-garde classical Rock Folk Metal Pirate Metal Country Country Rock Female vocalists Opera R & B Hiphop Indian classical Indian film music Bhangra music |
| Interests (non-headphone) |
Composing music Writing (fiction and non-fiction) Cooking (gourmet and anything I can burn on a grill) Fine wine (and the stuff that I can afford) Single malt scotch Making the perfect gin & tonic (and drinking my mistakes!) Independent films and filmmaking Science fiction Travel and just generally wandering around Sociology Crime mapping Dog (have a black lab and a golden retriever) Cities Canadian television and film Dulcimer (playing) Tablas, bongos, and djembe drumming Fishing Indian film (Bollywood and Mollywood) Hot tubbing Watching documentaries Theremin Cars Beard growing |
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Headphones: SR-Grado 325i, Sennheiser HD-595, Yuin PK1.
Headphone Amps: Decware Zen Head ZH1, Headroom Total Bithead. Music Playback Machine: Philiips something or other.
Headphone Amps: Decware Zen Head ZH1, Headroom Total Bithead. Music Playback Machine: Philiips something or other.
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