Interests

Playing Piano
Psychology & Psychotherapy
Cooking
Spending time with my beautiful wife

Headphone Inventory

- RHA CL2
- Audio Technica r70x
- Heir Audio 4.Ai with Fiio silver cable

Had:

- Audez'e LCD-2.2
- Sennheiser HD438
- AKG K271 Mk II
- AKG 702 65th Anniversary
- Stax Sr-202
- Stax Sr-303
- Stax Lambda Signature
- Cosmic Ears BA4 custom IEMs
- AKG K601

Headphone Amp Inventory

- Meier Audio Corda Jazz (non-ff)
- KHV88 (DIY tube amp)

Had:

- Lake People G-103-S
- Stax Srm-3
- Matrix M-Stage (both stock and modified with OPA 627)
- Lehmann Black Cube Linear
- RSA Raptor
- Stax SRM-252-II
- Stax SRM-T1 (modified)
- Cayin C5
- JDS Labs C5

Source Inventory

iBasso DX150 with Amp 6

DDDAC 1794 with recent CCS boards and Cinemag 600/600C output transformers (look below under speaker setup)

PS Audio DirectStream

Had:

Yulong D18
db Labs Tranquility SE
Violectric V800
Meier Audio StageDAC
iBasso dx50
Fiio X5
Audio-GD Reference 5.32
Metrum Acoustics Octave Mk II

Cable Inventory

Acoustic Revive 1.0PA RCA (in speaker setup, from preamp to power amp)

Vovox Sonorus XLR (in speaker setup, from DAC to DSP and from DSP to preamp)

Sommer Cable Epilogue (connected to Corda Jazz)

Had:

Kimber KCAG
Kimber Timbre
Oyaide DR-510
Mundorf Zendo
Neo by Oyaide RCAs

Power-Related Components

Furman AC 210

Other Audio Equipment

My Speaker Setup:

Three way horn speakers based on Hornfabrik Miro with:
Markus Klug Altec H808 wooden replicas
Wolf Von Langa Kilimanjaro Series A4000 1" field coildrivers (end of game for me)
Sonido Alnico bass on a backloaded horn
Monacor horn tweeter

Custom autoformer crossover with paper-oil capacitors by Werner Jagusch

DDDAC 1794 with recent CCS DAC boards and Cinemag 600/600C output transformers

DSPeaker Anti-Mode 2.0, functions as low frequency DSP

DIY Single Ended Triode Amp:
6N7 driver tubes, 6W6GT output tubes (as triode), 6AX4 rectifier bridge
Tamura input transformers
Monolith custom interstage transformers
Hashimoto 507U output transformers
10 pieces of ASC 30uf capacitors inside, silver-teflon wiring, Audionote silver RCA / Neutrik XLR inputs and Audionote Silver speaker posts
Yamamoto bias meter for output triodes.
My own twist on a Thomas Mayer (aka Vinylsavor) design...

Audio Antiquary tube preamp, with C3m tubes and EZ81 rectifier.
Special order with balanced inputs via vintage Sennheiser studio transformers.

Amplifiers and speakers are placed each on three pieces of Alto-Extremo Lyd I absorber feet.

DIY silver plated copper loudspeaker cables.


Had:

Adam Artist 5 active speakers
KEF x300a active speakers
Fujitsu Ten Eclipse TD512 fullrange speakers
Iso Acoustics speaker stands

Music Preferences

Mostly Jazz and lots of other well-recorded stuff

Gender

Male

Occupation

Psychologist