Interests

Music, food, coffee, travel, books, movies, bourbon, Life!
drinking coffee, roasting green coffee beans, playing the drums, reading, learning python & ruby on rails, Qigong, drinking bourbon, travel, good food

Headphone Inventory

Mad Dogs, HD580, MDR-V6, ER4P/S, SR60, RHA950, HD25-1 ii

Headphone Amp Inventory

RSA SR-71B, cmoy Altoids by JMT (circa 2001), old total bithead, porta corda

Source Inventory

Fiio X3DAP, Sony discman D25S, Panasonic SL-CT570, Oppo DV980-h, Emotiva ERC-2, iRiver iHP-120, 3 sansa clips, sansa fuze, motorola xoom, asus i7 laptop running w7, couple of asus netbooks, a bunch of samsung & panasonic blu-ray players around the house

Cable Inventory

clou red jaspis, bluedragon, assortment of kimber, tara labs & alo interconnects

Power-Related Components

Rotel Power Conditioner

Other Audio Equipment

Emotiva XDA-2 DAC, Fiio E17 DAC

Audio-Related Tweaks

dbpoweramp cd ripper!!!!! after trying almost everything, I finally found a cd ripper capable of correctly tagging tracks. no more misspellings, inconsistencies & errors. when you listen to mostly non-mainstream music & classical, correctly tagging tracks can be a ridiculous pain. this tool works flawlessly.

mediamonkey 4.0.7x for playing flac audio files (or whatever you've got)...handles everything perfectly with lots of flexibility & options, while not being overly complicated.

Music Preferences

Jazz, fusion, Rock, instrumental rock...think Don Caballero, 20th Century Classical....think Shostakovitch, Indian Classical, Salsa, funk....98% of my 1600+ disc collection is instrumental...I'm not big on vocals

Gear-Fi

I love really nice watches. presently wearing a Breitling

Occupation

Run small engineering firm specializing in pumps