About Me

My Background

I’ve been in ultra high end audio myself for at least 20 years now and even grew up around high end systems my father owned all throughout the 1980s starting with some Sansui electronics, Infinity RS IIIb and DCM Timeframe speakers. Have listened to countless systems up to 7 figures at high end audio shows including RMAF and California Audio Show and owned a lot of different 5 figure systems over the years. I have a few audio systems, plus all my personal Bluetooth speakers

I’ve also been to headphone demo shows and have listened to almost all of the popular high end models. Crinacle has written a headphone ranking doc far better than I could put together, otherwise I’d consider doing it. I’ve built and designed speakers and have dabbled in crossover, driver and enclosure design. At previous companies have done their livesound setups and have worked with mostly QSC gear. I’m also very familiar with most of the portable livesound speakers and have demoed or used nearly everything on the market.

My degree is in Electrical Engineering and Computer science and I am quite familiar with the hardware, software design and tuning of embedded DSPs. I currently work in Software Engineering, and have worked at companies doing music recognition, speech recognition and Digital Signal Processing.

My headphone collection includes
  1. Sennheiser HD 6xx (Sennheiser HD650)
  2. Hifiman HE-400i
  3. Hifiman HE-560
  4. JDS Labs OL Dac
  5. JDS Labs O2 Headphone Amplifier
  6. Earfun Free Pro 2 (with Oluv’s custom ear resonance tune
  7. Earfun Free Pro (with Oluv’s custom ear resonance tune
  8. Fiil T1 Pro
  9. Altec Lansing inMotion IM616 (Etymotic ER6i rebrand)
Previous headphones included
  1. Sennheiser HD 280 pro
  2. Anbes 359
  3. Fiil T1X
  4. Mpow M5
Current audio systems include
  1. 4x GR-Research X-Statik floorstander speakers (2 with upgraded crossovers including Sonicaps)
  2. GR-Research X-Voce center channel
  3. 2x Dual 15” Epik Empire Subwoofers
  4. Arcam AVR600 receiver
  5. Arcam FMJ DV27A DVD-Audio player
  6. GR-Research LGK 1.0
  7. Arcam AVR300 receiver
Past audio systems included
  1. 2x AV123 Rocket RS850
  2. AV123 Rocket RSC200
  3. 2x AV123 Rocket RS450 with risers
  4. Hsu Research VTF-3 mk3
  5. 4x B&W 702s2
  6. B&W CC6
  7. B&W ASW750
  8. NHT Sub Zero
  9. Event 20/20
  10. Infinity RS-IIIb
  11. Infinity Reference One
  12. DCM TimeFrame TF-350

Thanks,

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