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Male

Interests:

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

You can contact me at - lohb777 @ gmail

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 technical ability.

Equipment with 'muscle and finesse' basically.


WTB 2017

1) SOEKRIS 1101 Portable R-2R DAC

2) Elemental Watson Class-A Valve/Mosfet Hybrid Headphone Amplifier



OWN

(CANS)

****AUDEZE LCD 2.1 - The deepest darkest chocolate with a dash of coffee & cream. Simply the best (for me).

****FOSTEX T20-RP Mk2 - 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.

(IEMs)

****SONY XBA-N3 HYBRID IEMs

OWNED

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

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

Headphone Amp Inventory:

***OWN*** iBasso PB2.
Transportable, but 5 watts desktop class amp.
PLUS LPS 16 volt battery-powered clean linear discharge power solution.

***SOLD*** CAYIN C5 - excellent budget level portable amp.
Organic, wide 3D presentation, paired excellently with my modded T20RP's.

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

Source Inventory:

OWN

1) ASUS ZENFONE 2 Laser 6" + UAPP

2) MACBOOK AIR (Internal Cirrus Logic 4208-CRZ DAC/amp)
with
Audirvana Plus 2.x.x


3) HRT microStreamer (segmented current source TI PCM 1793 chip).

4) iFi iPurifier 2 - like what is doing.
Blacker background/tighter timing/better imaging/resolution and 3D layering.

5) TROND aptX 4.2 receiver - stellar for $20 !

OWNED

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 power I view separately from the DAC itself). Battery life short for the MOJO price.

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.

Cable Inventory:

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

CRYO UP-OCC LITZ or CRYO UP-OCC cables
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
HCKexin OCC IEM cables x2

Power-Related Components:

1) Macbook Air mains isolation.

2) ENERGIZER XPAL 8000mAh portable battery + XPAL 16-volt AC LPS for iBasso PB2 amp.

3) Power strip with built-in noise suppression.

4) (WTB) 16-volt DC desktop LPS for iBasso PB2 + better/more caps for it.

Gear-Fi:

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