HeyOK1000
Lucky Baby Boomer son of post WWII immigrants - sacrificed for the American dream.
- Interests
- Watching pre-1970 old films on the BIG screen - Film Forum & Loew's Jersey. Film Noir. You Tube
4 and 1 wall handball competitor. NYC Sports Teams: Yankees, Mets, Knicks, Nets. Bruce Lee. Early Toho Godzilla era films. 1960's Marvel Comics featuring Jack Kirby [The GREATEST Artist Ever!] NYC Nostalgia 1950s-60's. 1960's Vintage TV - 'Naked City,' 'Mission: Impossible,' 'The Wild, Wild West,' 'Batman,' 'Twilight Zone,' 'Star Trek,' more. 1950's-60's AM Radio – (R.I.P.) WMCA "Good Guys" & WABC "The All Americans" rock & roll D.J.'s and WNEW & WQEW [middle-of-the-road] music.
- Headphone Inventory
- Stax SR-507 preferred use. Other options include AKG K1000. Occasionally K701, K501, K340, Grado RS-1 and HiFiMAN songbirds & Edition-S for Classic Ipod.
- Headphone Amp Inventory
- 1960's Scott 222-C Integrated Amplifier tube-rolled with vintage 7189, Mullard 1950's ecc83 tubes.
Early 1960's 'Shell' single-ended integrated amp. purchased off of eBay and restored. Uses an EZ-81 rectifier, two EL84 and one ECC83 - all tube-rolled from time to time using 1950-60's European and American vintages.
Seldom used HeedApogee Groove, Canamp. Grado RA-1 amp.
- Source Inventory
- Imac Itunes music & You Tube. NO CD's.
- Cable Inventory
- The Essential USB Cable by dB Audio between Imsc & DAC-3
'Silver Sound' interconnects between DAC-3 and amps.
- Other Audio Equipment
- Following equipment sits idle in storage: 2 Cassette decks (one Denon, the other Sony) and some classic Sony Walkmans. 'Ah Toeb' '99 CD player that uses ECC188, E88CC, ECC88 tubes.
- Music Preferences
- Listening to great songs - melodies & words whether from eras of "The GREAT American Songbook" or AM-Radio Top 40 Rock & Roll hits of the 1950's-60's - particularly British Invasion (Beatles etc.) & Motown.
Singers: (particular favorite albums)
Mark Murphy - 'Sings Mostly Dorothy Fields & Cy Coleman,' 'Stolen Moments,' “Rah' / Carmen McRae - 'The Great American Songbook,' 'Live At Bubba's' / Anita Ellis - 'A Legend Sings' / Frank Sinatra - 'Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim,' 'A Man And His Music - The Collection' DVD
/ Tony Bennett - 'Tony Makes it Happen!,' 'Songs For The Jet Set,' 'I Gotta Be Me' / Johnny Hartman & John Coltrane.
1960's Bossa Nova:
Sergio Mendes & Brazil '66, Tamba Trio, Tamba 4, Marcos Valle, Luiz Eca.
Movie Soundtrack Composers:
John Barry, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Richard Rodney Bennett, Michel Legrand, Henry Mancini, Ennio Morricone, Bernard Herrmann.
Non-Films Composers:
Antonio Carlos Jobim, Alec Wilder, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Richard Rogers, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, Arthur Schwartz, Cy Coleman and other great craftsmen of Tin Pan Alley, Claus Ogerman, Stephen Sondheim.
- Gear-Fi
- Imac surfing.
- Occupation
- Senior Citizen. Semi-Retired.
Signature
Thank God for headphones! At home they allow an intense intimacy with music.
Reference equals preference. Early memories of audio include defunct oversized grand 1950s-60s movie theater palaces utilizing tube amps/horn speakers. Also, a Grundig tube stereo wooden console playing vinyl records.
Both...
Reference equals preference. Early memories of audio include defunct oversized grand 1950s-60s movie theater palaces utilizing tube amps/horn speakers. Also, a Grundig tube stereo wooden console playing vinyl records.
Both...
