jude Send PM

Gender:

Male

Occupation:

• Work. A lot.

Interests:

• Family man stuff
• Music (listening)
• CanJamming
• Audio measurements
• Photography
• Reading
• Family and friends
• Wannabe photographer

Headphone Inventory:

Headphones getting a lot of listening time lately (in no particular order):

• Sony MDR-Z1R
• Audeze LCD-4 (200Ω)
• Focal Utopia (with Focal Elear pads)
• Focal Elear
• Sennheiser HD 800S
• HiFiMAN HE-1000
• HiFiMAN Edition X
• MrSpeakers ETHER Flow
• MrSpeakers ETHER C Flow

Portable headphones getting a lot of listening time lately (in no particular order):

• Shure KSE1500
• Sennheiser HD 469
• JH Audio Sirens Series Roxanne (custom)
• Ultimate Ears Reference Remastered (custom)
• Westone ES60 (custom)
• FitEar MH334 (custom)
• Sennheiser IE 800 (balanced)
• Sony MDR-7520

Wireless headphones getting a lot of listening time lately (in no particular order):

• Bose QuietComfort 35 (QC35)
• Sennheiser MOMENTUM Wireless
• Sennheiser RS 220
• Sennheiser RS 185
• ASTRO A50 Wireless system
• 1MORE MK802 Bluetooth Over-Ear
• 1MORE iBFree Bluetooth In-Ear

Exercise headphones getting a lot of listening time lately (in no particular order):

• Jaybird Freedom Wireless

Headphone Amp Inventory:

Dedicated headphone amps getting a lot of listening time lately (in no particular order):

• Frank Cooter custom 845 electrostatic amplifier
• Cavalli Audio Liquid Carbon
• Schiit Audio Jotunheim
• HiFiMAN EF6
• Simaudio MOON Neo 430HA
• Rupert Neve Designs RNHP

Source Inventory:

Source components (DACs and DAC/amp combos) getting a lot of listening time lately (in no particular order):

• Sony Walkman NW-WM1Z
• Astell&Kern AK380
• Astell&Kern AK70
• FiiO X7
• Onkyo DP-X1
• Chord Electronics DAVE
• Chord Electronics Hugo TT
• Chord Electronics Mojo
• Totaldac d1-integral-headphone
• Fostex HP-A4BL
• Schiit Audio Yggdrasil
• Schiit Audio Gungnir Multibit
• Schiit Audio Modi Multibit
• Meridian Prime
• NAD D7050 (mostly driving a pair of KEF LS50 loudspeakers)
• AudioQuest Dragonfly Red
• Meridian Explorer2
• Benchmark DAC2 HGC

Cable Inventory:

Most of my system cabling is by (in no particular order):

• Moon Audio (headphone cables and portable audio cables)
• Cardas (headphone cables and analog interconnects)
• Nordost (loudspeaker cables)
• ALO Audio (headphone cables and portable audio cables)
• Wireworld (headphone cables)
• Came-with-it cabling (the cables included in the box with stuff)

Power-Related Components:

• Dedicated AC line to home rig
• BPT dual balanced power transformers
• Brick Wall (series mode surge protectors)

Other Audio Equipment:

For Audio Measurements:

• Audio Precision APx555 audio analyzer
• Audio Precision APx1701 transducer test interface
• G.R.A.S. 45BB-12 KEMAR with the G.R.A.S. 43BB Low-noise Ear Simulator Systems and the KB5000/KB5001 anthropometric pinnae
• G.R.A.S. 45CA Headphone/Hearing-protector Test Fixture with G.R.A.S. KB0072/KB0073 small pinnae; G.R.A.S. RA0045 IEC 60318-4 ear simulators

For Listening:

• Naim Audio Mu-so
• KEF LS50 loudspeakers
• Fujitsu TD-M1 loudspeakers
• PSB Alpha 1-100 (2.1 loudspeaker system) with dual SubSeries 100 subwoofers
• Peachtree Audio deepblue2
• Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin Air
• Bowers & Wilkins MM-1
• Ultimate Ears UE MEGABOOM

Audio-Related Tweaks:

• AudioQuest Sorbothane footers under a lot of gear

Music Preferences:

• I listen to pretty much *everything* (but still haven't gotten into Tuvan throat singing)

Gear-Fi:

• Nikon cameras and lenses
• Fujifilm cameras
• Sony cameras and lenses
• Panasonic micro-4/3 cameras and lenses