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  • About

    Gender:
    Male
    Birthday:
    May 30, 1987 (Age: 36)
    Location:
    China/Canada
    Gear List:
    Headphone/Speaker Inventory

    Over-ears:
    Pioneer - SE Master1
    JVC - DX1000
    Oppo - PM-3

    In-ears:
    Sennheiser - IE8(Beat Audio Supreme cable)
    Denon - c751 (broken left side, about to recable)

    Sold:
    Audio Technica - ATH-W1000X
    Sennheiser HD 25-1 ii
    Shure - SRH-840
    Monster - Turbine
    Audeze - LCD-2 Rev.2
    V-Moda - M100

    Speakers:
    Emotiva Pro - Stealth 8



    Headphone Amp Inventory

    Audio-gd - Phoenix gen1

    Sold:
    DNA - Sonett (single ended)
    - Valvo(Mullard) 5AR4 (1960's)
    - Reflector 6H30P-DR (2009)
    - Sovtek 6N1P (1979)


    PRE-amps:
    Audio-gd - Phoenix in pre-amp mode
    AMB - a20 balanced, active pre-amp
    NHT - X2 - Active analogue crossover with fully balanced 2.2 XLR support



    Source Inventory

    PC:
    Dedicated Dual-PC Jplay + Audiophile Optimizer front end
    Windows 7 Ultimate laptop with playback only apps

    DACs:
    PS Audio - PerfectWave DAC Mkii
    LH Labs - Pulse X Infinity 2.0 + UpTone Regen Amber + LH Labs LPS4
    iBasso - D42 Mamba + HiFlight Topkit
    LH Labs - Geekout 1000

    DDCs:
    Gustard - U12 USB->HDMI-I2s, AES, SPDIF

    Sold:
    Lite - DAC 83
    JKenny - JKMk3 USB->SPDIF



    Tweaks:
    UltraFi - Aubisque USB Filter
    iFi Micro - iPurifier USB Filter
    UpTone Audio - USB Regen Amber



    Cable Inventory

    Digital:
    BNC to RCA - custom (1.5m Furutech Alpha Ag wire, cryo'd Furutech BNC, Eichmann Silver Bullet RCA)
    iFi Micro - Gemini Dual Headed USB cable (0.7m)
    LH Labs - Lightspeed 1G USB (1m)
    LH Labs - Lightspeed 2G split USB (1m)
    LH Labs - Lightspeed 2G v2 black split USB (1m)
    LH Labs - Lightspeed 2G split USB (2m)

    Analogue Interconnects:
    World's Best Cables - XLR 4.6m red (Mogami 2549 Neglex + Neutrik NC3-B)
    World's Best Cables - XLR 4.6m blue (Mogami 2549 Neglex + Neutrik NC3-B)
    Blue Jeans Cable - XLR 1.3m black (Belden 1800F + Neutrik NC3-B)
    Blue Jeans Cable - XLR 0.9m black (Belden 1800F + Neutrik NC3-B)
    Blue Jeans Cable - XLR 0.9m black (Belden 1800F + Neutrik NC3-B)

    Sold:
    K Works - GoldenHeart RCAs



    Power Cables:
    All stock now

    Sold:
    K Works - Empowered PC (x2)



    Power-Related Components

    AC:
    Shanghai Electric Company - 240v->120v 5000W Step-down transformer
    Audio-gd - Power Supply Filter
    Array Solutions - AC-7b - W3NQN AC Noise Filter (between wall & PC)
    AudioPrism - ACFX Powerline-filter

    Digital:
    iFi Audio - iUSB Power (for powering audio PC internal SSD)
    Teradak - ATX-350 Full Linear ATX PSU (x2, one for each source PC)
    LH Labs - LPS4 in 2.0 chassis (Pulse Infinity DAC, USB Regen)



    Other Audio Equipment

    Cellphone/on-the-go:
    Samsung - Galaxy Note 5 Duos
    GoneMadd Music Player
    Neutron Player
    USB Audio Player Pro



    Audio-Related Tweaks

    Audio-gd - Power Filter - RF attentuator strip
    Mapleshade - Silclear - Silver filing paste for contact enhancement
    K-Works - Silencer - wallplug RF-Killer
    Acoustic Revive - RLI-1 - LAN-Isolator. High freq. noise filter on LAN input
    3M - AB5100 - EMI/RFI shielding and absorption sheets (x4)
    ERS paper
    X-Sound - AXF-104 Pro - PCIe cap array filters to soak up EMI/RFI (x2)
    Array Solutions - AC-7b - W3NQN AC Noise Filter (between wall & PC)
    iFi Micro - iPurifier



    Music Preferences
    Female vocal dub-step, Vocal trance, Progressive rock, Indie Rock, Hip-hop, Classics, Classical

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