Tassie Devil
Retired Maths teacher, farming (dairy & beef) & tourism. Traveled 53 countries, photography, cars
- Birthday
- September 15
- Location
- Northern Tasmania, Australia
- Interests
- Photography
Video
Listening to classical music
Photography (Nikon D7000)
Cars (BMW 540i)
- Headphone Inventory
- Focal Utopia
Sennheiser HD800S wired with a 3.5mm connector, Two more HD800S with 4 pin AES and a Focal Utopia
One AKG 702 (used by my wife)
One Sennheiser 598
Cardas earphones
- Headphone Amp Inventory
- Violectric V281, Auriliac Taurus, Schiit Jotunheim
TWO of Ric Schultz modded LKS DA-004, Primare DAC30 [3 top end headphone systems]
Portable Fiio 12A Mont Blanc for use with the Sony portables (Hardly ever used)
- Source Inventory
- Roon controlling 16,000 albums in FLAC format on 6TB HDD in this PC -> Aries
Two of Pioneer XDP-30R with two 200GB micro card s
Sony NZ-ZX100 with 200GB micro card -> total of around 1150 CDs on board
Modded OPPO 105 for BDs & other video discs, PVRs for TV -> Anthem 50V ->
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- Cable Inventory
- Black dragon balanced cable for the Focal Utopia
Custom cable for the HD800S
Siltec interconnect & Furutec cabling in main speaker system
- Power-Related Components
- Nothing special
- Other Audio Equipment
- Anthem 50V preamp/processor
Plinius, Halcro and other amplifiers
Soundlabs Majestics (left, centre, right), Custom electrostatic speakers (side), Modded AR6 (rear) + 4 subs (2 with KEF B138 drivers, one with Alpine driver + Klipsch 12" driver only) in a 7.1 MC system
- Audio-Related Tweaks
- Not needed as the main listening room is a specially designed (by me) pentagon shape with vaulted ceiling - no two opposite surfaces parallel
- Music Preferences
- Classical - all sorts from instrumental, chamber, orchestral, choral to operatic.
Headphone listening via Roon -> LKS DA-004 -> HeadRoom Blockhead amp -> Focal Utopias the best
OR using combinations of the above gear to listen to Roon or the Sony portables
- Gender
- Male
- Gear-Fi
- Various toys in the home PC network
- Occupation
- Retired
Signature
ROON via PC -> Auralic G1-> Modded LKS DA-004 -> Audio-gd Master 9 -> Focal Utopia headphones