Interests

computer hardware, computer gaming, craft beer, tube hunting, headphones

Favorite beers:
Dragoon IPA
La Cumbre Elevated IPA
Ballast Point Victory at Sea
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Headphone Inventory

Abyss Diana V2
Audeze LCD-2.2F (Bamboo)
Audeze LCD-XC (2016 drivers)
Audeze LCD-R (w/ Jotunheim A)
Audio Technica ATH-M50x
Audio Technica ATH-W5000
Beyerdynamic T1.2 (Black)
Dan Clark Audio AEON Flow Closed
Dan Clark Audio Expanse
ENIGMAcoustics Dharma D1000
Focal Elex (ZMF pads)
Grado GH1
Grado GH2
Grado LA&OC Audio Society 25th Anniversary (Nyczaj rods/blocks)
Grado SR325X
HEDD HEDDphone (Rev 2)
Hifiman HE-6 (6 screw)
Kennerton Gjallarhorn GH50 JM Edition Mk2 (Stabilized Karelian Birch)
Kennerton Odin Mk2 (Zebrawood)
Sennheiser HD 650
ZMF Aeolus (Blackwood / copper)
ZMF Auteur OG (Bocote / brass)
ZMF Ori (Bocote / black painted finish)

IEMs:
Campfire Audio Saber
Fiio EX1
Final Audio Piano Forte VIII
Moondrop Blessing 3
Noble K10U
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Headphone Amp Inventory

Ampsandsound Leeloo Custom (14H input choke + 8&32 ohm jacks + Auricap coupling caps)
Amspandsound x ZMF Pendant (Bocote)
Audio-gd NFB-1AMP (2018)
Bottlehead Crack + Speedball
Flux FA-10 LE
HeadAmp GS-X Mini (satin blue)
Schiit Folkvangr
Schiit Ragnarok
Violectric V281 LE
Wells Audio Milo (Khozmo + 12db Attenuation + Vishay Z-foils)
Woo Audio WA5-LE
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Source Inventory

Audio-gd D-77 (dual mono es9038pro)
Metrum Amethyst (DAC2 modules)
Schiit Bifrost 2/64
Schiit Yggdrasil (OG A2 Unison)

DAPs:
Shanling M1s
Shanling M6
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Other Audio Equipment

Decware Switch Box
Singxer SU-1


(previously owned equipment)

Audio-gd DAC-19 (10th Anniversary edition)
Audio-gd Singularity 19
Flux FA-10
Fostex TH-X00
Grado GS1000e
HiFiMan HE-400i
Massdrop x HiFiMan HE-4XX
Schiit Bifrost Multibit
Schiit Eitr
Schiit Loki Mini
Schiit Lyr 2
Schiit Magni 3
Schiit Modi Multibit
Sennheiser HD 800
Shanling M0
Shanling M5s
Woo Audio WA2
Woo Audio WA6-SE
ZMF Eikon (Cherry)

(retired/out-of-rotation equipment - in storage)

Shanling M5
Audio-gd C-2
Fiio E12
Fiio X5
Garage1217 Ember II
Garage1217 Solstice
Hifiman HE-560 Vsomething
Schiit Vali 1
Schiit Asgard 2
Schiit Sys
Spirit Labs Twin Pulse Ragnar

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Gender

Male

Gear-Fi

Full Tower Gaming PC "Megaweapon":

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
- cooled by: Corsair H150i Elite Capellix
Motherboard: MSI MPG X670E Carbon WiFi
RAM: 2 x 16GB Kingston Fury Beast 6000MHz DDR5 (CL36)
Video Card: AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX
Storage: 2TB Crucial P5 Plus M.2 (OS/games)
Storage: 1TB Crucial P5 M.2 (FLAC files)
Storage: 1TB Crucial P5 M.2 (storage)
Storage: 1TB Crucial P5 M.2 (backup)
Audio: Realtek ALC4080
- optical S/PDIF out to Schiit Syn --> Emotiva BasX A5
- powering: Klipsch Quintet III's + Velodyne VRP-1000
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA P2 1200W
Case: Corsair Obsidian 750D
OS: Windows 11 Pro

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LG 27GR95QE 27" monitor (OLED, 240Hz@2560X1440)
LG 38GN950 38" ultrawide monitor (Nano IPS, 160Hz@3840x1600)
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ITX Gaming PC "Mini-Megaweapon":

CPU: Intel i5-12400F
- cooled by: Noctua NH-U9S
Motherboard: MSI MPG B760i Edge WiFi
RAM: 2 x 32GB Team T-Force Vulcan 6000MHz DDR5 (CL38)
Video Card: EVGA RTX 2070 Super XC Hybrid
Storage: 1TB Intel 660p M.2
Audio: on-board Realtek ALC897
Power Supply: Corsair SF600 600W
Case: NCASE M1 (1st Ed.)
OS: Windows 11 Pro

Occupation

Information Technology