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Gender:

Male

Location:

Netherlands

Interests:

peer-to-peer, NAS, Linux

Headphone Inventory:

[all alphabetically sorted, by company]

owned cabled headphones:
AKG K812, K872; Audeze LCD-X, LCD-XC; Final (FAD) Pandora III, Sonorous VIII, 2 x Sonorous X; Focal Clear, Elear, Elegia, Stellia, Utopia; Hifiman Arya, HE6se, Sundara; MrSpeakers Aeon, Ether C; OPPO PM2, PM3; Sennheiser HD 800, HD 598, etc.

previously owned but not kept:
AKG N90Q

owned cabled in-ear earphones:
AKG K3003; Audeze LCDi4; Final (FAD) Fi-BA-SS, Heaven VII, VIII, LAB II, Piano Forte X-G, IX and VIII; Focal Sphear, Sphear S; JH Audio Layla; RHA CL2; Sennheiser IE800, IE80, etc.

owned bluetooth headphones:
AKG K845BT, Y50BT; Audeze Mobius; Audio Technica ATH-DSR9BT; Bose QC35; Bower & Wilkins P7 Wireless; Parrot Zik 2; Sennheiser Momentum 2 Wireless over-ear, PXC 550.

owned bluetooth in-ear earphones:
Focal Sparks; Jaybird Bluebuds X; Sennheiser Momentum 2 InEar BT M2IEBT .

Gear setup:
-- next to bed -- : AK240 + Sandisk 400GB -> ALO TRRS -> LAB II, Sonorous X, Piano Forte IX, VIII, JH Layla, K3003, Fi-BA-SS, IE 800
-- desktop at home office --: iUSB3.0->..-> RME-ADI 2 Pro -> [direct or through Oehlbach XLR -> iCAN Pro ->] Nordost Heimdahl 2 -> Utopia, Clear; XLR ALO -> Sonorous X, Sonorous VIII, XLR Wywire -> HD 800, LCD-X(C), K812, Ether C ...
-- at work -- : AK240 or SP1000 cu--> Elegia, Sundara, Layla, CL-2, FI-BA-SS.. (I normally leave the Elegia and the Sundara at my workplace, carrying only the smaller stuff with me)
-- DIY --> Note 9 - BT -> Mobius, PCX-500, ATH DSR9BT, Sparks, etc.

Headphone Amp Inventory:

RME ADI 2 PRO, iFi iCAN Pro, Chord Mojo, iDSD micro

Source Inventory:

RME ADI 2 PRO, Astell&Kern SP1000Cu, AK240, AK100-II, Chord Mojo, iFi iDSD micro, several Synology NAS, Windows and Linux Full Tower computers,

Bluetooth: Astell&Kern XB10, Radsone Earstudio

Cable Inventory:

- Nordost Heimdall 2
- Lavricable --> 3,5 mm
- Oehlbach XLR
- Wywire HD800 XLR + adaptor XLR->jack
- TRRS and XLR ALO cables for Sonorous X and VIII
- RCA : Oehlbach XXL-2 8.5 mm Cool Silver,
- ifI Mercury
etc.

Power-Related Components:

- iFI USB 3.0 Purifier
- Sbooster BOTW (power supply)

Other Audio Equipment:

Living room :
- Onkyo TX NR5010
- Dali Rubicon 5 Speaker set
- Heco Celan GT Subwoofer
- Oehlbach Twin Mix Two M 6 mm2 cable
- Oehlbach NF 214 Sub Subwoofer cable

For DIY : Milwaukee Bluetooth M18 Jobsite Radio/Charger (wirelessly connected to smartphone)

Audio-Related Tweaks:

I sometimes apply EQ corrections.

Music Preferences:

I Listen mostly to most metal genres, ancient medieval and renaissance music, sacred music, baroque, trance (techno), ambient (dark, spiritual ambiant...), neo-medieval, neofolk, folk, ("classic") romantic music.
[Compared to "typical" profiles, I don't listen to pure jazz and blues, and little to pop, rock and mixed jazz]

Gear-Fi:

Samsung Galaxy Note series (Note 12.2 tablet, Samsung Note 9 Smartphone with 512 GB base storage + Samsung 512GB micro-sdxc card)
computer monitor is 4K 48" TV Samsung (UE)48JS9000 connected to Linux PC, Windows PCs and to NAS
Computer motherboard = Asus X99 Rampage Edition X with special headphone DAC -amp module in 5" bay.
Living room TV = LG OLED65G6V