Hello,from the San Francisco Bay Area :)

[hmscott]

Hi Everyone, I've been into "Hifi' since I was young, starting around 13 - when living in the San Diego County area where I was born and grew up, and I continued enjoying Hifi while in College through to today - almost 50 years later :)

Along the way I've had several very large systems, but now that I am retired I am sticking to unobtrusive - and easy to lift / move around - headphone systems.

I am listening with a Topping D90 MQA + Xduoo TA-20 + Topping A90, but the A90 is taking a well deserved vacation while I enjoy tube rolling 12AU7's in the TA-20.

Throughout the pandemic I've been shopping sales for IEMs, Headphones, and now tubes, lots of great Hfi deals out there during the last year.

Right now I'm listening with a Hifiman Ananda, Hifiman HE6SE V2, Sennheiser HD660s with the Xduoo TA-20 with a NEW NOS matched pair of PHILCO Long Black Plate Angled D Getter 12AU7's.

I enjoy a wide range of music and media, I stream Hfi Music with Tidal and AMHD, and watch video with a wide range of services including Netflix, Prime Video, HBOMAX, Paramount+, Disney+, Britbox, CuriosityStream, Tubi, etc etc - Youtube too.

I've got a lot of reading to do here to catch up on, and I am looking forward to meeting you all. :)

[walpurgis]

Hello Scott. Welcome to AOS.

I'm sure you'll find plenty to interest you here, just join in the chat.


Enjoy the forum,
Geoff.

[Lawrence001]

Hi Scott and welcome.

I'm really into headphones, planars in general and Hifiman in particular. I had the HE400, HE500, HE6 (original 4 screw version if you're into that sort of thing), HE400i and HE560. I also owned the LCD3 (non Fazor), Oppo PM3 and Dekoni Blue. I still have Fostex T20RP.

I'm also into amps of course, I've owned Little Dot III, IV and IVSE and various SS amps over the years.

I sold most of my collection off over the years and have ended up with Sennheiser HD580, 650 and 700. Amp wise I've got a Eufonik valve amp from Poland and a Graham Slee Solo. Also a couple of Audio Gd dac/amps which I rate despite the criticism of them on some sites.

I actually repaired a class A amp by Yulong Audio last night which now sounds lovely. It got nice and warm too [emoji2]

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[struth]

Hi Scott, welcome to AoS. Jefferson Airplane from your neck of woods then, as were Greatful Dead i think.. enjoy the forum.

[hmscott]

Hello Scott. Welcome to AOS.
I'm sure you'll find plenty to interest you here, just join in the chat.
Enjoy the forum,
Geoff.
"'I must not look on ebay!" - so true!!

Thank you Geoff!

Hi Scott, welcome to AoS. Jefferson Airplane from your neck of woods then, as were Greatful Dead i think.. enjoy the forum.
struth, lots of live Music venues were here when I first moved here in 1980, now not so much, with none to be found in the last year :mental:

Hi Scott and welcome.
I'm really into headphones, planars in general and Hifiman in particular. I had the HE400, HE500, HE6 (original 4 screw version if you're into that sort of thing), HE400i and HE560. I also owned the LCD3 (non Fazor), Oppo PM3 and Dekoni Blue. I still have Fostex T20RP.
I'm also into amps of course, I've owned Little Dot III, IV and IVSE and various SS amps over the years.
I sold most of my collection off over the years and have ended up with Sennheiser HD580, 650 and 700. Amp wise I've got a Eufonik valve amp from Poland and a Graham Slee Solo. Also a couple of Audio Gd dac/amps which I rate despite the criticism of them on some sites.
I actually repaired a class A amp by Yulong Audio last night which now sounds lovely. It got nice and warm too [emoji2]

Hey, that's great Lawrence, I also have a few Beyerdynamics + other Sennheisers, and I am looking at that new HD8XX (https://drop.com/buy/drop-sennheiser-hd-8xx-headphones) supposed to come out 11/21 from Sennheiser+Drop - a retuning that has potential!

The tube equipment for me started in my teens as that was all around for "boat anchor" pricing, so it's fun to revisit tubes+SS again 50 years later - a lot has changed, but much remains the same - except tube prices, yipe!

I'll see you all around the forums :)