Introducing Our 7th Author Baskingshark

April 7, 2020 Jürgen Kraus (Calgary, Canada)

Baskingshark is based in Singapore. He contributes to Head-Fi occasionally. He has played the piano and guitar in a band for the last 15 years.

Baskingshark previously had to almost sell a kidney to fund IEMs for stage monitoring, so he is always on the lookout for gear with good price to performance ratio. As such, with the rise of Chi-Fi in the last few years, he has never been happier with his audio hobby. Though the wife has never been more unhappy with the increasing number of IEMs and earbuds in the mail.

Tonal preference

Baskingshark is a basshead and is slightly treble sensitive, but he can appreciate most other sound signatures. He believes that different tuning should suit different music genres and needs. For casual music listening, he prioritizes good timbre and tonality over technical excellence. For stage monitoring, he prefers something neutralish with good isolation and good technicals.

Author

Jürgen Kraus (Calgary, Canada)
Head-Fier since 2016. He has been known as “Otto Motor” to Head-Fiers, as “Dr. Schweinsgruber” to audiobudget.com users and Youtubers, and as “Brause” to Super Best Audio Friends and the Headphone Community. - For the purpose of confusion, he decided to pose under his real name Jürgen Kraus (“JK”) from now on. - This is a hobby. In “real” life, Jürgen is a professional geologist operating his own petroleum-exploration consulting company Franconia Geoscience Ltd. based in Calgary, Canada. He holds German and Canadian passports. Jürgen had a classical music education from childhood through high school in Germany and he has been following popular music developments since the late 1970s. His understanding of arts and crafts was influenced by Bauhaus pragmatism: “less is more” and “form follows function”.
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