Introducing New Co-Blogger Kazi Mahbub Mutakabbir
audioreviews.org are delighted to welcome blogger Kazi Mahbub to the team. Kazi hails from Bangladesh but lives and studies in Munich, Bavaria’s state capital, Germany…which is ca 2 hours south of my hometown of Bamberg. Kazi has excellent analytical and written reporting skills and has proven himself as a very competent, critical reviewer. He is also an avid photographer with his own, particular style. After North America and Singapore, we now have a strong leg in continental Europe. Kazi in his own words:
Munich, Germany. Head-Fier since 2019. Mostly lurking around r/headphones as u/kmmbd and a very active member in local head-fi community since 2015. Got into head-fi in mid-2019 under the username kmmbd, and has been reviewing audio gears sporadically on his personal Medium blog since 2018. His introduction to portable audio was through a Walkman cassette-player in his pre-teens, and music has been his getaway ever since.
He harbors a minor OCD regarding the tagging and organization of his music library (which is all digital on a local NAS). Also, spends too much time custom-theming his desktop Music Player for no apparent reason.
In real life, he’s a Bangladeshi living in Munich and currently doing his MS in Computer Science, majoring in Computational Biology. He’s a penchant for the academia and research, though life is strange so he’s still unsure how things will turn out in the long run.
Kazi’s Tonal Preference
Kazi doesn’t have any specific tonal preferences, but he does know what he can’t endure: shouty upper mids, oversized emphasis on 4–8KHz region, and of course — bass that rolls off way too early and just can’t inject life into the music.
Other than that, he can appreciate what the tuner intended to do with any specific gear. He believes that “Resolution isn’t everything , tonality and tuning ensures how long something will remain enjoyable.”
He also tries to keep “specialists” in his collection rather than “generalists”, i.e. gears that tend to sound excellent with specific genres or instruments rather than those which only sound competent at best with everything.
Oh, and he’s an amateur photographer trying his best to not embarrass himself.
Kazi’s Music Picks
