Phil Townsend
Audio geek for 60 years. Knight kits, Heathkits Olsen Allied etc
Ham radio op for 55 years. E.E. UCSB
Look me up on QRZ.com...
My ham call is K5SSR.
Elecraft radios...
philji@mac.com
I live in SantaFe, NM

Long time head-fi lurker...
Location
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Interests
Study Physics
Ham Radio, Photography, Antenna design.
Organic gardening. Building audio gear.
Headphone Inventory
Mr. Speakers Ether C, Senn 650. Etymotic, Grado various
Audeze Sine10, Hifiman 400i, some other POS
FostexTH900, Audeze isine20
Campfire Atlas
Focal Clear
Audeze i3 thanks to Audeze
Noble Velvet
Headphone Amp Inventory
24a headphone amp DIY...45 pounds of amp.
TTVJ Portable Millett hybrid Tube amp... cute!
Pass Labs Headphone amp...HP1
Mojo/Poly
DIY 45 se amp...
Spud Amps
Hugo 2
Various other diy headphone amps.
Various DAC's new and old home brew... some sound rather good some suck.
Questyle QP2r DAP WOW!
Wavelength Brick... the one with the NOS Phillips Chip... It will sound really good if you feed it with a nice choke cap choke cap power supply! And dump the Red Black Gate caps for a couple of film cap...nice audio jewelry types... $$$$
Source Inventory
Micro Rendu and Uptone LPS 1
Astell Kern Kann Alpha
Cable Inventory
Some DIY silver and some store bought.
Power-Related Components
None
Other Audio Equipment
Feastrex 5Dnf in open baffles
First watt F6
Outlaw receiver
Oppo CD player
Blumenstein Orcas
Herb’s Flesh and Blood amp
Pass Labs 30.8 amp
KEF LS50 speakers
KEF LSX
First Watt SIT3
Big fat speaker cables from Joe Cohen at Prana wire... yikes!
AC cables from Oyide did I spell that right?
Zu Audio Soul Supreme
Zu Audio Dirty Weekend with mods
Audio-Related Tweaks
I have some of the cleanest AC power. All underground far from town and a ground system that is beyond belief. Clean!
Music Preferences
Any well recorded stuff.
I like the Kingston Trio nicely recorded too!
Beach Boys! Thanks Brian! Love ya!
Gender
Male
Gear-Fi
Tenor ukulele... I play but I suck.
Apple Pie from Pietown, New Mexico yes, it a real place on the continental divide.
My wife Christine (this is in no order of preference)
Elecraft KX3 ham transceiver. Shack in a box.
Crammer
Mac computers
Lots of home insulation.
Occupation
Eat and breath and solder stuff.

Signature

Never Solder Naked...
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