My Background
I’ve been in ultra high end audio myself for at least 25 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. I’ve 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 done work in crossover, driver and enclosure design. 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. At previous companies I have setup their home theater and livesound setups and have worked with mostly QSC gear.
Current Portable Bluetooth speakers
- JBL Partybox 310
- 2 Tribit Stormbox Blast
- 2 Earfun Uboom X
- Soundcore Motion Boom+
- Mifa Wildbox
- 2 Soundcore Motion Boom
- Mifa Wildcamping
- 2 Earfun Uboom L
- 2 Soundcore Motion+
- Soundcore Motion 300
- Dayton Audio Boost
- Dayton Audio Boost Mini
- Tribit Stormbox Micro 2
Past Portable Bluetooth speakers
Current headphones
- Sennheiser HD 6xx (Sennheiser HD650)
- Hifiman HE-400i
- Hifiman HE-560
- JDS Labs OL Dac
- JDS Labs O2 Headphone Amplifier
- Earfun Free Pro 2 (with Oluv’s custom ear resonance tune)
- Earfun Free Pro (with Oluv’s custom ear resonance tune)
- Fiil T1 Pro
- Altec Lansing inMotion IM616 (Etymotic ER6i rebrand)
Past headphones
- Sennheiser HD 280 pro
- Anbes 359
- Fiil T1X
- Mpow M5
Current audio systems
- 4x GR-Research X-Statik floorstander speakers (2 with upgraded crossovers including Sonicaps)
- GR-Research X-Voce center channel
- 2x Dual 15” Epik Empire Subwoofers
- Arcam AVR600 receiver
- Arcam FMJ DV27A DVD-Audio player
- GR-Research LGK 1.0
- Arcam AVR300 receiver
Past audio systems
- 2x AV123 Rocket RS850
- AV123 Rocket RSC200
- 2x AV123 Rocket RS450 with risers
- Hsu Research VTF-3 mk3
- 4x B&W 702s2
- B&W CC6
- B&W ASW750
- NHT Sub Zero
- Event 20/20
- Infinity RS-IIIb
- Infinity Reference One
- DCM TimeFrame TF-350
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