Rick_B
Rusty, crusty Olde Farte beyond caring what others may think about what I have to say...
- Location
- San Antonio, Texas
- Interests
- Audio, Pentax Digital SLR photography, Motorcycles, Ham Radio, sittin' on my....
Cooking, eating, pissing off the girlfriend, working on my car, building electronics and furniture, working on the motorcycle, spankin' the monkey...you know, the usual normal guy stuff....
- Headphone Inventory
- Modded Superlux 681, Pioneer SE-A1000, Audio Technica ATH-AD700, Klipsch Image S3, Koss Pro 4AATitanium, Grado SR-225e, Martin Logan Mikros 90. Tascam TH-02W, NXG Head Trip, Koss Pro-4AA, Fostex T50RP, California Headphone Company Silverado, Philips SHP9500, Yamaha YH-3, Koss Pro-4AAA, HiFi Man HE-350, Akai 50X, HiFiMan He-400i
- Headphone Amp Inventory
- Homebrew OPA2604 based unit, Sangamo PIO input caps, Black Gate DC caps, Alps "Black Beauty" volume control, Cardas wiring and input jacks, 24 volt power supply....
Antique Sound Labs MG Head OTL Mk III, tweaked with Raytheon 12AX7 and Sylvania 7189's, Vitamin Q coupling caps
Little Dot 1+ w/various NOS 6AK5 and equivalents, Burson V5i
Darkvoice w/NOS tubes
APPJ w/various 6V6 equivalents and NOS 12AX7s, unmodded as yet
- Source Inventory
- Squeezebox Touch into Chord Qute
Teac X700R w/Teac Dolby unit for Barclay-Crocker Dolby R2R Tapes
DirecTV
Lenovo S530 desktop computer with 4Tb of uncompressed and high-resolution audio files running JRiver via Audioquest Coffee USB cable into Chord Qute
Philips CD-80
Behringer UMC202HD for making digital "rips' of analog sources
Linn Sondek LP12 with Benz Ruby cartridge, Linn Axis W/ Adcom Crosscoil VDH, Pioneer PL-41, Micro-Seki BL-51 w/ ATP-12T tonearm, Yamaha PX-3
Preamp:
Audible Illusions Modulus 3A
- Cable Inventory
- Cardas ICs and speaker cables
Wireworld Eclipse 8 ICs
Wireworld Equinox 7 ICs
Stereovox Speaker cables
Ixos
Homebrew
DH Labs Silver Sonic
Audioquest Water
MIT
Goertz
- Power-Related Components
- Monster HTS 3500 on Video gear
Monster HTS 3600 on Audio gear
Shunyata, Wireworld and homebrew power cables
FIM AC outlets in wall
- Other Audio Equipment
- ProAc Response 3 speakers driven in winter by a McIntosh MC240 <my favorite amp...In summer I use an Adcom GFA-555SE (the last of the series) for the ProAcs
Also have a Sound Valves VTA-70i I built with Magnequest output transformers, custom resistors, FREDs, custom caps, Cardas binding posts and RCAs. JJ KT77s, With Audioquest Tornado power cable and Stereovox Studio SE speaker cables.
- Audio-Related Tweaks
- Everything, footers, cables, power cables, etc.,.
- Music Preferences
- Jazz, well recorded rock (what little there is), Classical, Windham Hill and Narada stuff
- Gender
- Male
- Gear-Fi
- Pentax K-5, 70+ manual and auto focus lenses, and Pentax Q-10
BMW 325iT (sadly now deceased due to a piss-poor driver turning left in front of me)
Yamaha XJ650LJ Turbo
Collins, Drake, Hallicrafters, Hammarlund, Swan, Yaesu, and TenTec Ham gear and shortwave radios, 1951 Barker and Williamson US Army BC-610-I AM transmitter
- Occupation
- HighFi audio consultant, trained audiophile monkey