RedBull

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Forum Post Count:	1211
Join Date:	10/11/08
Last Online:	36 minutes ago
About Me:	Audio addict
Interests (Hobbies, favorite activities, etc.):	+ Watch movies + Photography + Kill the Batman (just kidding) + Kids + Gals (oops, wife)
What I do for a living:	IT
Headphone Inventory	Audeze LCD-2 rev. 1 w/ 8 cores Norse Audio cable ATH-AD2000, ATH-AD700 Fostex T50RP w/ Shure 840 pad Sennheiser HD800, HD650 (white silk, new version), IE8, CX300 Shure SE530 Sony SA3000 Grado SR60 Koss PortaPro Westone UM3X ======================================================================================= Past: UE700 Denon AH-C350K Westone UM1 ======================================================================================= Auditioned: AKG 701, 702, K1000 (awesome airiness, but little too bass light, poor bass extension, poor depth and instrument layering) Audio Technica: ESW9, ESW10, ESW11JPN (very warm and boomy bass, skewed timbre, piano sounds fatty), CK10, CK100 (very nice, full, airy vocal, nice, sparkling treble, very tight bass), AD900, AD1000, M50 (too bassy), A2000X (harsh), ATH-W3000ANV (rather thin, upper mid emphasize and harsh), ATH-AD1000x (very nice, very close to AD2000 full, meaty mids, smooth, airy treble), ATH-AD900x (close to AD900 signature, upper mid emphasize, obviously a bit thin, liquid mids) Audeze LCD-2 Rev. 2 (mid rather too far and thinner than r1), LCD-3 (a little tiring signature vs r1) Beyer DT880 (600 ohms), T1 (excellent depth! but very sharp outlined treble. I like drawing music with 0.2 mm pen. Soundstage much smaller than hd800, quite much warmer than hd800. Example, violin, I can hear the only tip of the note clearly, with hd800, I can hear the body and the tip as well) Denon D5000, D7000, D7100 (absolutely too bassy for me), D600 Final Audio FI-BA-SS Grado SR80, PS-1, PS1000 (heavy (too much) bass, heavy headband like it's gonna crush my skull, GS1000i, RS1, 325i, PS500 Hifiman HE-500 (very nice dynamic, sharp, punchy bass, nice forward, smooth mids, very nice high, great instrument separation sparkle, (but HD800 have better instrument texture), nice depth). Might consider buying this one day. Jays Q-Jays and some other Jays JH 10, 13, 16 JVC DX1000 Koss ESP-950 (Very nice mid, well textured bass. Soundstage is wide but not too deep) Magnepan 1.7 (speaker, grainy, bass light) Monster Trumpet Phonak Audeo PFE 232 (thick, smooth silky non grainy midrange and clean extended non-fatiguing high. Timbre is excellent, does not sound off at all. Soundstage is okay. Tonality is excellent) Rudistor IMD-3 Sennheiser HD25-II, HD595, HD600, HD800 (very very nice for clasical but sound thin with normal music), HE60, HD700 (warmer than HD800) Shure 840, 440, 1840 (light signature, light bass, quite nice mids, quite nice high, sparkling treble, very open sound signature) Sony R10 (bass light version, awesome mids, but too bass light and too EXPENSIVE), Z1000 (tiring wongky mids, typical Sony), EX1000 XBA-3 (quite nice vocal) XBA-4 (a little too much bass, grainy vocal and treble) Stax SR-007 MK2 (with SRM-007tII), 2020, SR-207 (with SRM-007tII), SR-009 (very fast, very detail, relax, little bass light), SR-507 (treble not as smooth as SR-009 but more forward and more bass impact) UE TF10, UE11, UE200, UE900 (quite nice mids but a bit grainy, timbre sounds quite off (boxy), high is not so extended but smooth type) Ultrasone Edition 8, 9, 10 (yuck!) Unique Melody Miracle Westone UM2, ES3X, W3, W4 (very nice mids and treble, but a little bass light)
Headphone Amp Inventory	Leben CS-300XS (Sovtek EL84, GE 5751) Lehmann BCL Ray Samuel P-51 Mustang Gone but not forgotten: Graham Slee Solo w/ PSU1-24 Darkvoice DV337 (Driver tube: 6SJ7, 6SJ7GT, 5693) (Power tube: RCA 6AS7G; =C= 6AS7G; T-S 5998; T-S, GE, Telefunken 6080) Auditioned: Audinst HUD-MX1 Audio GD Phoenix Bottlehead Crack w/o Speedball Centrance DACmini Corda Meier Concerto, Stepdance EAR HP4 Earmax Standard Graham Slee Novo Solo Ultra Linear iBasso D4, D10, PB1, P4 iQube V1, V2 Lavry DA10, DA11 Maverick D1 Pico RSA Tomahawk, Hornet, Predator, The Shadow, SR-71, Apache, Dark Star Rudistor RPX-33, RP3-d, NX-33 (on SE mode) SPL Auditor, Phonitor Stello HP100 Yamamoto HA-02 Zero
Source Inventory	Audio Gd Ref 7.1 DSP v5 NFB-2 Cowon D2 16GB iPod Classic 120 GB iPod Shuffle Panasonic DMR-E95H Gone: Yamaha DVD-S80 (dead) Auditioned: Burson DA-160 DAC Calyx 24/192, Eximus DP1 Resonessence Labs Invicta (2 weeks home loan) Schiit Bifrost Weiss DAC2
Cable Inventory	Acrolink 6N-A2110II BigOnNoise Singularity Belden (DIY) Auditioned: Van Den Hull - The Well Hybrid DH Labs - Revelation
Power-Related Components	Nil
Music Preferences	Anything, mostly vocal jazz Dianna Krall Shang Kuan Ping Emi Fujita Jack Johnson John Pizzarelli Norah Jones Patricia Barber Susan Wong Teresa Teng EPICA
Interests (non-headphone)	Photography
Gear-Fi (Favorite Non-Audio Gear & Gadgets)	Nikorr 50mm/1.4G Nikorr 85mm/1.8D Nikon F90x Nikon D70 Gitzo Tripod (Explorer)