jeffreyfranz
New to headphones, after many years in high-end audio. Have always loved "tubes and electrostats".
- Interests
- Music, tennis, walking, reading, and the ocean
Sports Cars, reading, tennis, walking, hiking, movies, meditation
- Headphone Inventory
- Sennheiser HD-800
Stax SR-507
Stax SR30
AKG K-701
Senhneiser HD-600
Senhneiser HD-580
Grado SR-80
Fostex T40RP II
Koss ESP 6 Electrostatic
SOLD
Audez'e LCD-2R2 (sold)
Sennheiser HD 650 (sold)
- Headphone Amp Inventory
- Stax SRM-006ts; Icon Audio HP8 Mk. II; Fiio E9; Bellari HA 540; Stax SRD-4
- Source Inventory
- VPI HW-19 Mk. III turntable; Muse Model 10 balanced CD/DVD player with variable analog out
- Cable Inventory
- Too many
- Power-Related Components
- Audiophile Systems Pure Power 1050 power regenerator
- Other Audio Equipment
- Quad ESL-989 electrostatic speakers; two Vandersteen 2Wq subwoofers, run as a stereo pair with the Quads. Aesthetix Calypso tube preamplifier; BAT VK-60 mono tube amps; Pass Aleph 60 single-ended pure Class A mono amps (SS); Music Reference RM-9 II tube amp; Transcendent Audio T-8 OTL mono amps; Adcom GFA-535 stereo amp (ss; original Nelson Pass design)
- Music Preferences
- Baroque, Classical, Romantic periods in "Classical Music," Symphonic and chamber my favorites; Blues; Beatles; R&B; R&R; folk; Latin; limited and specific Jazz
- Gender
- Male
- Gear-Fi
- Lotus Elise; Lotus Exige; Porsche Cayman S; Porsche Boxster S
BTW, I OWN NONE OF THESE (just drooling)
- Occupation
- Semi-retired Psychologist
Signature
"Analog tape and tubes, that's the way I like it." - George Harrison
Primary Music System: Quad ESL-989 w/stereo pair of Vandersteen 2Wq subs; other stuff
Music Preferences: Baroque, Classical, Romantic periods in "Classical Music"; Blues; Beatles; R&B; R&R; folk; Latin; limited Jazz
Primary Music System: Quad ESL-989 w/stereo pair of Vandersteen 2Wq subs; other stuff
Music Preferences: Baroque, Classical, Romantic periods in "Classical Music"; Blues; Beatles; R&B; R&R; folk; Latin; limited Jazz