#1 Enjoying Music

• anything non commercial (Ranging from baroque to TripHop)
• includes British and Breton Folk, Indian Ragas, Fusion, Krautrock, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.

#2 Turning anything into a Roon endpoint

• Roon core (Rhein Z1 functions like a Nucleus)
• USB DAC/Headphone amps: TEAC UD-505, iFi ZENdac, Dacmagic 100, Audioquest Dragonfly Cobalt.
• Roon core direct to USB dac, Windows 10 PC, Android 10 phone, iPAD air, Win10 laptops, how do I convert my coffee mug?

#3 Listening to music

• Capturing musical emotion through HiRes and Vinyl
• Speakers: Stirling Broadcast LS 3/6 (BBC monitors), Ruark MR1 MK.2
• Headphones: Sennheiser HD 660s balanced to TEAC & Sennheiser HD 560s for PC/iPad/Phone use with Dragonfly Cobalt.
• Mobile headphones: Sennheiser Momentum 3 and B&W portable 5 (both USB wired to Dragonfly)

#4 Roon Library

• DSF (DSD native from 64 to 512; on Nucleus SSD)
• PCM (HiRes / DXD)
• Tidal FLAC/MQA
• Live radio (yes! even MP3/AAC is improved by Roon upsampling)

#5 Live long learning

• I am a professional linguist, educator, competence/performance management coach; all of this in the wider IT world.