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Gender:

Male

Location:

Canada/China

Occupation:

Engineer

Interests:

Music, any electronics, anything detailed/well made.
Anything I can build.

Headphone Inventory:

Over-ears:
HiFiMAN - HE-6 (4-screw model)
Pioneer - SE Master1
McIntosh - MHP1000 #2
JVC - DX1000 (completely disassembled, awaiting transplant to new frame)

In-ears:
Sennheiser - IE8(Beat Audio Supreme cable)
Denon - c751 (broken left channel. Will DIY recable some day)

Sold:
HiFiMAN - HE1000 v1
Oppo - PM-3 (stolen by burglar)

Audio Technica - ATH-W1000X
Sennheiser - HD 25-1 ii
Shure - SRH-840
Monster - Turbine
Audeze - LCD-2 Rev.2
V-Moda - M100
McIntosh - MHP1000 (#1 stolen by delivery staff)

Speakers:
Emotiva Pro - Stealth 8

Headphone Amp Inventory:

Cavalli Audio - Liquid Gold (LAu)
Xindak - A600 '09 version (60W Class A speaker amp. Great allrounder)
First Watt - F1J (10W Class A, Current Mode speaker amp specifically for the HE-6)

Audio-gd - Phoenix gen1
iBasso - D42 + HiFlight TopKit
LH Labs - GO V2+ Infinity


Sold:
DNA - Sonett (single ended)
- Valvo(Mullard) 5AR4 (1960's)
- Reflector 6H30P-DR (2009)
- Sovtek 6N1P (1979)


Preamps:
Bent Audio - Tap-X AVC
Audio-gd - Phoenix in pre-amp mode
AMB - a20 balanced, active pre-amp
NHT - X2 - Active analogue crossover with fully balanced 2.2 XLR support

Source Inventory:

PC:
Home server -> Music server -> HQPlayer upsampling computer -> NAA/renderer -> UpTone Audio - ISO Regen+LPS-1
- WS 2012 R2 -> WS 2012 R2 -> WS 2012 R2 running AO, ProcessLasso, Fidelizer, and HQPlayer -> WS 2012 R2 running AO, ProcessLasso, Fidelizer, and HQPlayer
(Could go on all day about this chain, all components are cherry picked and assembled for enhanced playback)

DACs:
T+A - DAC 8 DSD

LH Labs - Pulse X Infinity 2.0

Sold DAC:
Lite - DAC 83
PS Audio - PerfectWave DAC Mkii

Sold DDC:
JKenny - JKMk3 USB->SPDIF
Gustard - U12 USB->HDMI-I2s, AES, SPDIF

Tweaks:
UltraFi - Aubisque USB Filter
iFi Micro - iPurifier USB Filter
UpTone Audio - USB Regen Amber

Cable Inventory:

Digital:
Phaesur - 0.7m LUSH USB
UpTone Audio - USPCB

BNC to RCA - custom (1.5m Furutech Alpha Ag wire, cryo'd Furutech BNC, Eichmann Silver Bullet RCA)
iFi Micro - Gemini Dual Headed USB cable (0.7m)
LH Labs - Lightspeed 1G USB (1m)
LH Labs - Lightspeed 2G split USB (1m)
LH Labs - Lightspeed 2G v2 black split USB (1m)
LH Labs - Lightspeed 2G split USB (2m)


Analogue Interconnects:
World's Best Cables - XLR 4.6m red (Mogami 2549 Neglex + Neutrik NC3-B)
World's Best Cables - XLR 4.6m blue (Mogami 2549 Neglex + Neutrik NC3-B)
Blue Jeans Cable - XLR 1.3m black (Belden 1800F + Neutrik NC3-B)
Blue Jeans Cable - XLR 0.9m black (Belden 1800F + Neutrik NC3-B)
Blue Jeans Cable - XLR 0.9m black (Belden 1800F + Neutrik NC3-B)

Sold:
K Works - GoldenHeart RCAs


Power Cables:
All stock now

Sold:
K Works - Empowered PC (x2)

Power-Related Components:

AC:
Shanghai Electric Company - 240v->120v 5000W Step-down transformer
Audio-gd - Power Supply Filter
Array Solutions - AC-7b - W3NQN AC Noise Filter (between wall & PC)
AudioPrism - ACFX Powerline-filter


Digital:
iFi Audio - iUSB Power (for powering audio PC internal SSD)
Teradak - ATX-350 Full Linear ATX PSU (x2, one for each source PC)
LH Labs - LPS4 in 2.0 chassis (Pulse Infinity DAC, USB Regen)

Audio-Related Tweaks:

UpTone Audio - ISO Regen +LPS-1
Audio-gd - Power Filter - RF attentuator strip
Mapleshade - Silclear - Silver filing paste for contact enhancement
K-Works - Silencer - wallplug RF-Killer
Acoustic Revive - RLI-1 - LAN-Isolator. High freq. noise filter on LAN input
3M - AB5100 - EMI/RFI shielding and absorption sheets (x4)
ERS paper
X-Sound - AXF-104 Pro - PCIe cap array filters to soak up EMI/RFI (x2)
Array Solutions - AC-7b - W3NQN AC Noise Filter (between wall & PC)
iFi Micro - iPurifier
HiFi Tuning - Supreme Black fuses for EmotivaPro Stealth 8 speakers

Music Preferences:

Female vocal dub-step, Vocal trance, Progressive rock, Indie Rock, Hip-hop, Classics, Classical, Sea Shanties