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Gender:

Male

Birthday:

Apr 11, 1950 (Age: 68)

Location:

Zürich, Switzerland

Occupation:

(semi-retired) Editor

Interests:

Existing
Sound editing, tennis, jogging, photography, motorcycling, mountainbiking, science-fiction books, watching movies...

Headphone Inventory:

HiFiMan HE1000 (with V2 pads); 2 homegrown electrostats on the basis of Stax Lambda Pro and Lambda Signature Pro; Stax Lambda Nova; AKG K 701; Sennheiser HD 800 (modified), HD 650, HD 600, HD 595, HD 238 Precision, PX 200, PX 100; Grado PS1; Campfire Andromeda, Atlas; Shure SE846, SE535; FiiO EX1; Sennheiser IE 800, IE 8; Etymotic ER-4PT (modified); Phonak Audéo PFE 112

Headphone Amp Inventory:

Stax SRM-727II, SRM-T1 (modified); Chord Dave, Hugo₂, Hugo₁, Mojo; Meier-Audio Corda Symphony, Concerto, Opera, Aria prototype; Mapletree Ear++ (Black Gates); Talisman T-3H; passive «amp» (actually a mere attenuator in the form of a 500 Ω potentiometer) for the connection to high-level sources

Source Inventory:

Chord Dave, Hugo₂, Hugo₁, Mojo; Bel Canto DAC2; Dodson DA.217 MK II; McCormack UDP-1 (universal player); Philips DVD 963 SA; Audiolab 8000CDM (CD transport); Corda Symphony and Opera internal DACs; Computer/foobar2000; FiiO X5 II, X3 II, X5; SanDisk Clip Sport, Clip Zip, Clip+

Cable Inventory:

HE1000 cables: Lavricables Grand and Master Silver, Moon Audio Silver Dragon; HD 800 cable: Lavricables Master Silver, Moon Audio Black Dragon, DHC Clone; Andromeda/SE535/SE846 cable: ALO Audio Litz, ALO Audio Reference 8, Lavricables Reference Silver; HD 600/650 cables: Zu Mobius, Silver Dragon, several homegrown magnet-wire cables; interconnects: Zu Gede, Silver Dragon, Rudistor, several homegrown magnet-wire cables

Other Audio Equipment:

Passive pre-«amp» (Alps 10-kΩ potentiometer), Corda headphone amps (theoretically) usable as preamps; power amps: Metaxas Solitaire (modified), BEL 1001; homegrown 1- and 2-way speakers with homegrown fiberglass dome tweeters

Audio-Related Tweaks:

For maximum neutrality, all of my headphones are equalized (via custom presets). All of my stereo recordings are crossfeeded, all of my mono recordings are stereophonized (via Steinberg's Wavelab and sophisticated routines).

Music Preferences:

Creative (progressive/alternative/independent...) Rock/Pop/Electronica, (contemporary) Jazz, (contemporary) Classical...

Gear-Fi:

Nikon D800 system, Kawasaki Z1000 (2010, white/orange)