Interests

Music, technology, life, art, nature, cycling, hiking, classic cars, photography, everything.
Digital sources and DACs. Tube amps.

DIY audio

Headphone Inventory

Grado SR80i (modded) and 325i (modded). 325e.
Soundmagic E30 IEMs - Looking to upgrade to VSONIC R07 GR07 (when I can find some).
AKG K550 (modded for better fit / seal)

Headphone Amp Inventory

DIY balanced tube amp (ongoing project)
Little Dot 1+ currently w/ Mullard M8161 / CV4016 tubes and MUSES 02 op-amp.

Source Inventory

Fiio X3 Gen 1
Sansa Clip+ 8GB (My first DAP)
Laptop w/ iRiver.
DIY dual mono DAC with XMOS USB.

Cable Inventory

Nothing special yet. Research needed, as there is a lot of "snake oil" in the cable market.

Power-Related Components

Mains filter

Audio-Related Tweaks

Modded Grado SR80i : Vented diaphragm (4-holes), removed plastic grille and button with wire mesh grille, damped chambers with adhesive felt. Same treatment on SR325 except griille mod.

AKG K550 headpohone earpad re-profiling for better fit and seal.

Some tube and op-amp rolling on LD1+ amp. Vbe mod adding 2 more capacitors to eliminate transients at around 10KHz.

Constantly evolving DIY DAC, mods include digital power supply regs and caps, audio power supply regs and caps. Discrete op-amps (Burson). Experimenting with different resistors and caps in digital and audio sections. Experimenting with tube and transformer output stages

Music Preferences

Really, a but of everything if it is well played and recorded.

Gear-Fi

Various synths and keyboards.
Nikon D800 + D810 and various lenses and accessories.
PC (for photography)
Laptop (for everything else)

Occupation

I.T (Large scale, Unix, storage, networks)