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Interests:

Fine dining and passionate kissing

Headphone Inventory:

AKG K1000, AKG K701, Sennheiser HD650 with Cardas cable

Headphone Amp Inventory:

Woo Audio 5 300B Amplifier (with capacitor upgrades of Black Gate, Jensen and V-Cap.
Mills and Kiwame resistors and hand wound transformers)

(This Woo amp model has a K1000 input jack as well as the standard headphone jack)

VACUUM TUBES IN ROTATION:

Western Electric 300B tube

Sylvania 6SN7 (1952 "bad boys")
Sylvania 6SN7 GT VT-231 (1940's World War II military issue)
RCA 6SN7 GT VT-231 (1940's World War II military issue)
Ken Rad 6SN7 GT VT-231 (1940's World War II military issue)
Raytheon 6SN7 GT VT-231 (1940's World War II military issue)
General Electric 6SN7 GTB (1955 Joint Army Navy military issue)
Crosley 6SN7 GT (Sylvania rebranded)

RCA 5U4G VT-244 (1940's World War II military issue)
Sylvania 5U4G (1950's stock)
General Electric 5U4G (1950's stock)
Sophia 274B

Bedroom Amp:

Ming Da MC 84 C07

Tubes for the Ming Da:
1959 Baldwin organ 12AX7 (RCA rebranded)
Early 60s Philco EM87 (German made)
1963 Dynaco label 6BQ5 (EL84 type Sylvania rebranded) or 1959 Raytheon 6BQ5

Transportable Amp:

Head-Direct EF 1 (hybrid tube amp) using 12AU7 tube (1961 Baldwin organ label-Sylvania rebranded)

Source Inventory:

Main Digital source: Bel Canto DAC 2 with Marantz DV4001 as transport and Denon 2910 for SACD

Bedroom DAC: Musical Fidelity V-DAC

Turntable: Thorens TD 125 MK II (made in 1972)

Cable Inventory:

Power Cords:
Volex and Signal Cable power cords.

Interconnects: Dimarzio M Path stereo cable, Blue Jeans stereo cable, Moon Audio-Blue Dragon stereo cable, Signal Cable Analog Two stereo cable, Stereovox HDXV coaxial digital, Blue Jeans optical and coaxial cable

Power-Related Components:

General Electric power surge protection strip

Other Audio Equipment:

DIY type guitar tube amps, various guitars, Effectrode tube over drive pedal using 12ax7 tubes. Eico 667 tube tester (mid 1960s production)

Gear-Fi:

1930s Western Electric 202 telephone (black oval shape you've seen in the film noir movies)

1952 Bulova automatic wrist watch

Late 70s Canon AE-1 camera. (Great camera for 35 mm film photos which in my opinion can look better than digital especially for landscape and street photography)