So, tell us about your user name..............

[Techno Commander]

Mine comes from a love of music with punishing bass lines and from many years of being in charge of the "bright and noisy" stuff at musical events & extravaganzas. (gigs & festivals )

[Jerrykan]

My name 'Jerrykan' comes from my childhood love of making models of German WWII armour. The jerrycan is the ubiquitous metal 20 litre container for fuel and water. Designed in Germany in the '30s for the Wehrmacht it is now used worldwide. A white cross painted on the side denoted it is carrying drinking water.

Jerrykan is my online gamer tag, I like shooting people with an M16 from a distance, online of course.

My interest in hi-fi started when I was about 20 and bought my first system, a JVC ghetto blaster that had a phono input for a Sony deck. When I got my first job I got a NAD 3020, a Dual 505 TT and a pair of secondhand DIY Tannoy loudspeakers ( gert big things with a 12" woofer ). I still love vinyl but find the durability of CD very useful.

My digital system now approaches that vinyl sound I love - an Audio Synthesis DAX Decade DAC, Tri-Chord modded TEAC VRDS 25 CD player / transport, a Primare SPA21 amp ( the only 5.1 amp that sounds good in 2 channel) and a pair of Usher 6371 Compass speakers.

Interconnects are a Chris Venhaus design home-brew ( I AB'd against Nordost, Chord Co and Kimber and they stand up very well ).

I like listening to modern jazz, ( ECM, Coltrane and Davis, Mehldau, Metheny ) also Four Tet, Radiohead and folksy stuff ( Joni Mitchell, Nick Drake, Laura Marling and Creedence Clearwater Revival ).

Looking to get another valve amp now my kids are a little older, I still make models and have my stereo on nearly all evening most evenings whilst I work on my next 'masterpiece'.

My much younger wife accepts my need for an awesome sounding rig, she also has a penchant for jazz and can hear the difference between Black Ravioli and Aurios Media Isolation Bearings, a quality I find highly attractive.

Thanks for reading this, I always like reading other people's bios, hope you liked mine.

[Marco]

Hi there, thanks for that.

My name 'Jerrykan' comes from my childhood love of making models of German WWII armour. The jerrycan is the ubiquitous metal 20 litre container for fuel and water. Designed in Germany in the '30s for the Wehrmacht it is now used worldwide. A white cross painted on the side denoted it is carrying drinking water.

Jerrykan is my online gamer tag, I like shooting people with an M16 from a distance, online of course.

So what's your real first name? We like to refer to each other on first name terms here

Marco.

[Jerrykan]

Hi Marco, my first name is Matthew, pleased to meet you.

[Reid Malenfant]

Primare SPA21 amp ( the only 5.1 amp that sounds good in 2 channel)

I wouldn't be so sure about this I reckon the Audio Research MP1 would make you think differently

[Jerrykan]

I wouldn't be so sure about this I reckon the Audio Research MP1 would make you think differently

Then let me re-phrase, the only 5.1 amp I have heard under 2 grand that is good at 2 channel stereo.

[Reid Malenfant]

Then let me re-phrase, the only 5.1 amp I have heard under 2 grand that is good at 2 channel stereo.

That's more like it

As soon as i get this phono pre amp built i'll be dropping the MP1 into my system yay.gif

Anyway, sorry for going

Back to the point of the thread, i'm a spacedman 0012.gif

[ClasseAudio]

My name is pretty self explanatory.......love Classe products.

[thaiman]

I was born in Thailand and I am not female.

[Alex_UK]

I miss read it at first and thought you were some sort of vitamin expert!