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Male

Location:

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Interests:

Producing headphone wood cups/leather accessories in my spare time.

You can contact me at - lohb777@gmail.com

Headphone Inventory:

Love to find underdog audio equipment good for electronic music that punches above its weight/price class.

Signature I'm seeking -

solid slice of micro-detail
rich/slightly darker tonality
controlled textured bottomless full & tight low-end
lush/liquid balanced mids
smooth marathon listening session non-fatiguing treble.

A balance of musicality and technicalities basically.....










OWN

(CANS)

*** SONY MDR-Z7

****AUDEZE LCD-2CB

****FOSTEX Tx0-RP Mk3 - Exotic wood DIY custom modification.
Tuning style - bass enhanced from stock tuning, mids neither forward or back with HM5 pads, treble spike (10-11Khz or so) tamed a bit

****DENON D2k - torn down/disassembled for ages.



OWNED

****SOLD*** AUDEZE LCD-2C (sold to try 2CB)...prefer mellower 2C.

****SOLD*** MODIFIED HiFiMAN HE-400

****SOLD*** MODIFIED NAD VISO HP-50

****SOLD*** AUDEZE LCD-2.1

****SOLD*** SONY XBA-N1/N3 Owned 2 sets of each. (Will buy N3 again)

****SOLD*** Many Hybrid IEMs. Found Sony XBA-N3 best for my taste.

Headphone Amp Inventory:

1) CAYIN C5 - excellent budget level bass boost feature portable amp.
Organic tubey presentation....bit wooly with imaging though.

***SOLD*** iBasso PB2.
Transportable, but 5 watts desktop class amp. Great opamp rollers dream amp. LME49990/high current buffers best for my planars.
PLUS LPS 16 volt battery-powered clean linear discharge power solution.


***SOLD*** LIGHT HARMONIC GO1000 - transparent and dynamic, but lacking soul.Too cold and analytic.

Source Inventory:

OWN

1) MACBOOK AIR (Internal Cirrus Logic 4208-CRZ DAC/amp)
with Audirvana Plus 3.x.x

2) AliX basic USB ES9038Q2M DAC/amp + Looking for an R2R DAC now

3) ASUS ZENFONE 6" + UAPP


OWNED

HFM SuperMini - super transparent. Annoying basic GUI and various design issues. But sound way beyond its price.

4) iFi iPurifier 2 - liked what it was doing.
Blacker background/tighter timing/better imaging/resolution and 3D layering. This thing is not hype.

5) HRT microStreamer - (PCM1793 segemented current dac) lovely balance of naturalness/detail.

6) CHORD MOJO - nice to try while I owned it. HRT microStreamer comes pretty close in SQ, like 95% close (last 5% is resolution/3D placement. Internal peak power I view separately from the DAC itself). Battery life short for the MOJO price....= power management inefficient code issues.

7) ***TRADED*** BERESFORD BUSHMASTER MKII DAC/AMP - amazing little DAC/amp.Treble slightly ragged with some mastering.

8) AQ Jitterbug - did not work well with my audio chain ultimately. Bright/brittle metallic edginess was added to upper end which was shown with transparent opamps down the chain.

Cable Inventory:

"Cable cautious" rather than "all out cable improvements believer".
I buy high quality DIY parts built for close to standard cable prices.


ANTI-CABLES 0.2M RCA-RCA
DIY 3-line 24AWG UP-OCC USB Cable (Data LINE-Only Modification)
+
TERADAK USB Data+Power Y-Merger Cable

PSA TYPE 6 LITZ INTERCONNECT with CRYO'd 3.5's
8-line balanced Sterling Silver IEM cable

Power-Related Components:

1) Power strip with built-in noise suppression.

2) Ferrite clip-on barrels here-and-there

Gear-Fi:

My custom front/rear suspension mountain bike converted for single-speed city road thrashing madness.