MusiCol
Music is my drug of choice. I need large doses every day!
Location
Cumbria, UK.
Interests
Listening to music
Playing keyboards (badly!)
MotoGP
Nature sound recording
Freediving
Flying Power kites
Stargazing, Cloud-watching and Cloud photography
Headphone Inventory
HiFiMan HE 560
Beyerdynamic T5p
Sennheiser IE8 (with ACS Custom Silicon Sleeves)
Audez'e LCD-2.rev.1 (The Left channel has just failed. Grr!)
Beyerdynamic DT770 Manufaktur (32ohm)
Beyerdynamic DT100 (Old, much used, now left to rest in peace, and home to an entire ecosystem!)

ACS T1 (SOLD)
Sennheiser HD650 (SOLD)
Headphone Amp Inventory
CURRENT:

AURALiC Taurus MkII,

Resonessence Concero HP,

iFI micro iDSD,

iFI micro iDSD Black Label,

CEntrance DACportable,

iBasso D10 (modded - see Tweaks below),

Temple Audio Bantam XC2.

SOLD:

ALO Continental Dual Mono,
Burson Audio HA160,
SPL Phonitor,
CEntrance Hi Fi M8.
Source Inventory
Portable;
Astell&Kern AK240
iPhone XS Max
iMod 5G 80GB (Red Wine Audio modified iPod).

Home;
SimAudio Moon Neo 260D CD Transport+DAC (usually with optical input from AK240),

Inspire Elevation with RB880 and Sumiko Blue Point Special EVO III cartridge,

Roksan Caspian CD player,

Aiwa AD WX929 twin tape deck (Looking to upgrade soon to a high end Nakamichi or Pioneer).

PC (with-SotM tX USB PCIe audiophile USB card)


ProJect RPM5 (SOLD)

Wyred 4 Sound DAC-1(SOLD)
Cable Inventory
Purist Audio Design “Venustas Luminist Revision” 1m RCA Phono,

Artisan Silver Cables:
“N’th Degree” 0.5m RCA,
“Ultimate Silver Stream Double Purity Edition” 1m, “Ultimate Silver Stream 2” 0.6m (USB’s type A to B),
“Ultimate Silver Dream 2” 2m Headphone Cable 2x2.5mm to 6.3mm TRS,
"Silver Dream" 0.3m stereo min-jack-to-mini-jack (3.5mm TRS’s).

PlusSound: "Poetic" series headphone cable, 4feet long with 3.5mm TRS to Sennheiser IE8 connectors.

Home Grown Audio 0.5m "Silver Lace" RCA.

Black Rhodium “Encore” Bi Wire custom made by BR with their high quality Rhodium plated banana plugs.

Wireworld 2m "Starlight" USB A to B.
Wireworld 2m "Ultraviolet" USB A to mini-B
Wireworld 1m "Equinox 6" stereo mini-jack-to- twin-phono (RCA).
ALO: iMod LOD "V2 LUX-FEP 18awg OCC" Apple 30-pin dock connector to stereo mini-jack (SOLD).
AmpCity: "Fidelis" silver headphone cable for Sennheiser HD6xx series (SOLD).
Toxic Cables: 8ft "Silver Poison", sheathed, for Audez'e LCD-2 with 1/4inch TRS jack (SOLD)
Toxic Cables: 6ft "Silver Poison, unsheathed, balanced with twin ViaBlue 3-pin XLR's and matching ViaBlue XLR's to 1/4inch TRS single ended jack adapter (SOLD).
Locus Design: 1m "Essentia" USB A to B (SOLD).
Audio Sensibility 3m "Impact" cable for Audeze with Rodium 1/4" connector (TRADED).
Verastarr: 1m "Nemesis" pair of balanced cables with Neutrik XLR connectors (SOLD).
Power-Related Components
2 x Isotek "Sirius" mains conditioners, both with 6 UK-type power outlets (2 high power and 4 low power).

Aqvox USB linear power supply, powering my Resonessence Concero HP.

HiDiamond 1.8m Diamond 3 Power Cable
Artisan Silver Cables - Power Cables:
“Silver Hybrid“ 1.25m (to Moon Neo 260D CD player), and “Silver Hybrid 2“ 1m (to Musical Fidelity A5 Amp).
Other Audio Equipment
Musical Fidelity A5 Integrated Amplifier,

Martin Logan "Aerius i" hybrid Electrostatic speakers.

And in my little home music studio:
Pro Audio PC running 64bit Win 7 and Cubase 7.5;
Novation ReMOTE 61 SL MIDI Controller Keyboard with Automap 4.x;
ROLI Seaboard 25;
Native Instruments Maschine Studio with Maschine 2.x software;
CME "UF8" 88key hammer action MIDI keyboard;
Tapco S5 active monitors;
Roland VS-100;
Access Virus TI2 Polar synthesizer;
Novation "X-Station 25" synth;
Native Instruments "Kore 2" controller;
Rode NT3, NT4 and iXY microphones.
Audio-Related Tweaks
Townshend Seismic Sink.
Townshend Seismic platform with Seismic Load Cells x2
AudioPhysic VCF II Component Isolation Feet.
Tried all the possible permutations of opamps and buffers supplied with the iBasso D10. Settled on an AD8656 Opamp with dummy buffers - until I heard from HiFlight here on Head-Fi and bought his "Topkit"; dual TLE2141 single channel opamps and EL8201 buffers (silver-soldered onto iBasso adapters so they fit into the single-chip sockets in the iBasso; Big improvement in SQ -thanks HiFlight.
Music Preferences
Heavy Metal! Old school dance music and some Hard dance and D'n'B. I love Dubstep, also some classical music, some rap / hip hop, but also others including ABBA, The Who, Bob Dylan and Vangelis. So, my taste is varied and it varies with mood, but I must Love it! For me, music must be powerful - it must grab my entire being. I don’t own or play any “background music” - ever! I’d rather have silence.
Imaging is my single favourite attribute of music reproduction - the ability to close one’s eyes and see the musicians arranged before me. My living room speakers system is an imaging masterpiece but I have yet to find the same satisfaction in headphones. That’s what drives my chronic upgraditis!
Gender
Male
Gear-Fi
Dive computer; Pulse Oximiter.
Occupation
Disabled. Former Retail Manager, Bartender.

Signature

"Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused!"

Home- Inspire Elevation w. Audiomods Series 6 and hand built upgraded Koetsu Rosewood body cart. or Melco N100 (w. S100, D100 and Plixir Elite BDC)>AURALiC Taurus MkII>HiFiMAN HE-1000 Stealth or LCD-2
Portable- Astell&Kern AK240 SS>HE1000 Stealth or Beyerdynamic T5p or Senn' IE8 (need to upgrade!)​

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