Chris J Send PM

Gender:

Male

Location:

Toronto, Canada

Occupation:

Electrical Engineer

Interests:

playing drums and cymbals with wooden sticks
maple shell drums
K Zildjian cymbals

Headphone Inventory:

Stax SRS-2170 Electrostatic......My faves
AKG Q701, black
Audio Technica ATH-ESW9........closed back type
Sennheiser PX-100 ii, great for the $
Sennheiser HD424, 30 yrs old, 2000 ohms, rewired for balanced operation

IEMs:
Shure SE210, I use 'em with my metronome
Skullcandy earbuds, bass heavy, I don't use them

I used to own:
Beyer DT880, 600 Ohms, a nice neutral sound
Grado iGrado, great for the $
Signet TK33 Electrets, very transparent
fake Audio Technica ATH-ESW10 Japan, argh!
AKG K241
old Koss 'phones with little pots on the cups

Headphone Amp Inventory:

Matrix Quattro balanced headphone amp
La Figaro 336C e/w NOS tubes

Used to own:
Matrix M Stage e/w LM4562 Op Amp, no input caps
FiiO E17
FiiO E09K
FiiO E12

Source Inventory:

Beresford Caiman Mk II DAC/Amp
FiiO X5 Digital Audio Player
iBasso D12 Anaconda portable DAC/Amp
iPod Touch
Little Dot CDP_ii CD transport

used to own:
Wadia 170i iPod dock
Beresford Bushmaster Mk II DAC/Amp

Cable Inventory:

Kimber KCAG interconnects
Audioquest Evergreen interconnects
Chord Company SilverPlus USB cable
Silflex Toslink digital cables
Eupen power cords

Power-Related Components:

power conditioning bar

Other Audio Equipment:

you know, electro/acoustic transducers (speakers) and stuff like that, amps, pre-amps, cables, CD player, grammophone e/w/ Bipolar Junction Transistors, MOSFETs and JETs, Vacuum tube triodes

Audio-Related Tweaks:

Single Malt Scotch
A good, hoppy IPA craft beer

Music Preferences:

50's and 60's Jazz
50's and 60's Blues
Classical (Romantic period)
but mostly Rock & Pop music

Gear-Fi:

Nikon D90 DSLR
Fuji X20 digital camera
Canon G12 digital camera