*World Audio Design headphone amplifier, wired for high impedance headphones. I know I substituted a number of designer parts, but I don't remember what.

*I sometimes substitute an Electronic Tonalities 'Bottlehead' Foreplay clone, which has a number of modifications: upgraded power cord, Anticipation, Welborne 100K stepped attenuators, Caddock resistors, Hovland coupling caps, 'snubber', and I've added tape out jacks, through which I can run a headphone amp and headphones, to which I listen early in the morning.

*Adire Audio Tempest sub

*Various DIY speaker projects, principally single-driver designs with Fostex drivers.

*Sennheiser HD 600 headphones.

*Assemblage DAC 2.5

*Audio Electronic Supply PH-1. An absolutely wonderful phono stage, slightly warm but clear as a bell, produces three-dimensional image.

*ASUSA PP-1. I occasionally substitute this phono stage, usually in another system (with the Foreplay). Not quite the equal of the AES.

*Welborne Labs Reveille Phonostage. I've listened only briefly to this newly-completed (8/01) unit. Initial impression is extremely fast and punch, but without that solid state harshness. Now I have to figure out what to do with it.

*Interconnects are Jon Risch recipie using Belden 89259 and Vampire connectors

*Premier stands

*Classical: Although I enjoy everything from Perotin to contemporary, I am less enamored of much of the standard 19th Century repertoire (although I have a weakness for Brahms). Things pick up again beginning late in that century (Bruckner, Mahler, Strauss} and on through the really weird stuff that follows. To avoid a proliferation of categories, I include here contemporary computer music.

*Opera: Here I get really picky. I love some Baroque (Lully, Rameau, less so Handel) and then skip to Wagner, Strauss and Puccini.

*'Classic' Rock: Most of my LP collection dates from the late 60s to mid 70's, when I was in high school and college, at which point I was listening to rock almost exclusively. I still pull out and enjoy Jimi, Janis, Cream, et al. Although he should probably be in a separate category altogether, I include here Frank Zappa and the Mothers. I stumbled across 'We're Only In It For The Money' in ninth grade and was hooked. I'm convinced that early exposure to FZ permanently warped my brain and accounts for my current eclectic tastes.

*My latest foray is a very selective dip into Rap. At the moment, I've gone crazy for Eminem, who is hilarious.

*Selected 'World' Music: Indian, Pakistani (the great Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn), Laotian, Balinese and a few others.

*'Old Time': My latest exploration, which in my mind includes all sorts of widely varying genres, from hillbilly to Black and White spirituals to Delta blues.

*Amps are a hodge-podge of old ss units -- Classe and Acurus.

*The sub is a DIY Adire Audio Tempest, downfiring in a 21.5' sealed box, with an AVA 250 plate amp.