2leftears
- Location
- UK
- Interests
- Photography, electronics, gardening, food, planned obsolescence & sustainability
- Headphone Inventory
- Sennheiser HD540 Reference, HD560, HD650, HD800, HD250 Linear, HD250 Linear II
- Headphone Amp Inventory
- Lehmann Linear
Marantz HD-DAC1
DIY designed & build desktop/portable amp (1992, loosely based on NAD1020 pre-amp high output section), fully re-capped Nov 2013
- Source Inventory
- Marantz SA11S3 CD player
Marantz CD80 CD player (1989), fully re-capped Oct 2013, DEXA & OPA627 opamp roll
Marantz CD80 CD player (1990), fully re-capped Nov 2013, DEXA & OPA627 opamp roll
Fiio X1 II
Technics SL-XP1 portable CD player (wish they still made them like that!)
Technics SL-XPS900 portable CD player
- Cable Inventory
- Atlas Equator
Eringa 302 (Kudos to anyone recognising these! (Dad, not you...)
DIY XLR (Shark/Neutrik)
Shark speaker cables
Cheap Maplin TOSLINK interconnect
- Other Audio Equipment
- Marantz PM11S3 stereo integrated amp
2 Spendor S3/5R2 sealed-box 2-way monitor speakers
Technics SU-V2A stereo integrated amp (1980-ish, venerable SVISTK8040), fully recapped Jan 2014
2 KEF Chorale sealed box 2-way speakers (1972), re-capped, re-cabled, re-glued & repainted Aug 2014
- Music Preferences
- 15th, 16th & 17th Century European, Turkish, Armenian / Sephardic music (Jordi Savall HXXI) / J.S. Bach / Marin Marais
Japanese & Chinese trad. instrumental
Japanese Indie-rock, underground, shoegaze/dream-pop, blues, fusion, pop, experimental
Western Indie-rock, underground, shoegaze/dream-pop, blues, fusion, pop, experimental
Top favourite bands: Throwing Muses, GLIM SPANKY, Wang Dang Doodle (look for their song "GIRI GIRI GIRL" or you won't find them), Blurred City Lights, Lush, Slowdive, Minori Nagashima - serval DOG -, HARU NEMURI, Dead Can Dance, Tom Waits, and many more...
- Gender
- Male
- Gear-Fi
- Late 70's Minolta Cameras
- Occupation
- Something very interesting to me, very boring to others. UPDATE: I actually became bored with it as well. 2nd UPDATE: it became bored with me...