Interests

Besides listening to music (and building audio gear)?
Craft beer, live music, fixin' up the house, good movies, Indian and Thai food.

Headphone Inventory

Senn HD600; Senn 201

Headphone Amp Inventory

Bottlehead Crack with Speedball upgrade.

Source Inventory

Mac Mini 8G 1 TB; iFi micro iDAC 2; UpTone Audio Regen; Sony XA-5400-ES; SOTA Comet IV, Audiomods Classic 'arm (Cardas copper loom), Grado Reference Sonata 1; Thorens TD-125 Mk II, SME 3009 Series III, Stanton 980 LZX, Graham Slee Elevator; Bottlehead Eros phono stage w/Valvo E80F bottles; Pioneer TX-9500 II tuner.

Cable Inventory

15' Cardas replacement cable for HD600s; Wireworld Silver Starlight 7 USB; Wireworld Eclipse 7 & Silver Eclipse 6 interconnect; Wireworld Equinox 7 speaker.

Power-Related Components

2 dedicated 20A circuits w/PS Audio Power Port receptacles; Shunyata Venom cords; Blue Circle PLC Thingee w/crazy suffix conditioner.

Other Audio Equipment

Bottlehead Stereomour DH SET amp w/Emission Labs 2A3-S valves; Quicksilver Line Preamplifier; GlassWare Audio Design Aikido Noval linestage in process; Tekton M-Lore speakers; Rythmik F12G stereo subs.

Audio-Related Tweaks

Crack has Speedball upgrade, Dayton film coupling caps bypassed with Russian surplus teflon FT-3s, Cardas RCAs, PEC 100K mil spec pot, NOS '60's RCA 6080 and Mullard CV4003 tubes, Belton octal socket, Nichicon KX 'Standard Audio' PSU electrolytics, all soft-annealed silver signal & ground wiring, Cliff phone jack, Herbie's Tendersoft feet..

Stereomour has Connex Tiffany RCAs; Cardas rhodium over silver binding posts; Audiocap Theta coupling caps bypassed with Russian FT-1 telfons; parafeed caps are Mundorf Silver-Oil; tubes include NOS Raytheon 12AT7WA triple mica black plate and a matched pair of EML 2A3-S; teflon UX-4 sockets; ; feet are Herbie's Hard Isoball footers.

Music Preferences

Jazz: straight-ahead, piano combo, progressive;, Americana; rock-n-roll; blues and electric blues, swamp funk.

Occupation

Bankruptcy lawyer