Interests

Kayaking,ocean swimming,hiking, flaneur of big cities, cross country skiing
My wife and kids, the evolutionary origins of social behavior, Persian poetry and poetry prompts, acoustic and electric Delta blues, abstract and representational oil painting/drawing

Headphone Inventory

Present:
Sennheiser HD800 with balanced cable
Sony MDR 7506 for playing electric guitar with my tiny Vox headphone amp plug
Bose SoundTrue IE phones for seeing how long they will keep playing: possibly the most tattered, beat up, yet still operational pair, but they stay in my ears and I can take calls.

Had:
Audeze LCD-X with Audeze stock balanced cable
Focal Elear with stock cable
Audeze Sine (returned, unnatural, echo sound to my voice when using Cipher headset cable; can't use Cipher cable with Chord Mojo)
Sennheiser Momentum 2 wired version (returned, same problem with unnatural, echo sound to my voice when using headset)
Noble 6 IEM's
Bose SoundSport 174 Bluetooth earbuds (returned, too bulky and isolating, but surprisingly good SQ)

Headphone Amp Inventory

Present:
Chord Mojo
Schiit Magni 2


Had:
Schiit Mjolnir 2 with Amperex PG orange label tubes
Schiit Vali 2 (returned when decided to upgrade to Mjolnir 2)

Source Inventory

2011 MBP

Present:
2012 Mac Mini i7, 2.8gHz
Chord Mojo
Schiit Modi 2
FLAC files from CD's via dbPoweramp
VLC media library
Tidal

Had:
MacBook Pro
Gungnir Multibit

Cable Inventory

Cardas 1.8m balanced Sennheiser HD800 cable
Hosa generic balanced and RCA cables
Generic Toslink

Power-Related Components

Solar array on the roof

Other Audio Equipment

Present:
KEF LS50 speakers on IsoAcoustic L8R155, medium, speaker stands
Blue Aura v40 tube amplifier

Had:
JBL LSR 305 near-field monitors and LSR310S subwoofers with balanced cabling.

Audio-Related Tweaks

Have played with mini-Ambio, exploring sound stage changes and EQ

Music Preferences

Ry Cooder, Ry Cooder . . . Any passable good cello, Jerry Douglas on the Dobro, Victor Wooten on the bass, Lost in the Trees, Sonny Rollins, Roseanne Cash with John Levinthal, Texas Flood by SRV, M.Ward, Charles Lloyd "The River," The Talking Heads, Aretha Franklin, She and Him, Richard Thompson, Prince deep into RnB, Bach's Cello Suites, Andrew Bird, Ella Fitzgerald and Louie Armstrong together, separately, KD Lang, Jenny Lewis, Kacey Musgrave, Al Green, Jim White, Abigail Washburn and Bela Fleck together or separately, John Hiatt, Did I mention Ry Cooder?, Dolly Parton, Lyle Lovett's Large Band, Caruso by Pavarotti, Mark Knopfler, Neko Case, Neville Brothers, Wilco, Tony McManus, Martin Simpson . . .

Gear-Fi

Any bicycle; maps, books, small body acoustic guitars, Vox plug-in headphone guitar amp simulator.

Occupation

Family doc, then psychiatrist, now retired clinician and assistant professor of psychiatry.