What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report


I enjoy vinyl and digital (lately, with recent changes, vinyl actually sounds better than digital to me), BUT given what seems an overall preference for analog/vinyl on A'gon, I'm curious what the non-vinyl "1/2" is listening to. I tried to see if this was a previously posted question. Did not seem so.

This evening for me, it's Genesis (definitive edition remaster) "A Trick of the Tail".

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The Who Then/Now  poor recording, at least the first few songs. Will scroll through later

Disc 2/4 from Eric Clapton's Cross Roads: It sounds MUCH better than disc 1, which is bad

A Vollenweider Book of Roses. I haven't listened to this in a very long time. Really good

yesterday I replaced my 2 week new Odin 2 Gold coax with...

 the Yangsane  Pure Silver, so I ordered it too. I felt it was time to replace it with the Grey Knight. AMAZING, and not even broken in. The Odin 2 Gold lacks the inner detail. speed and bass punch and expanded sound stage that the Grey Knight has in spades. HIGHLY recommended
So I was flying through CDs Patricia Barber Modern Cool, Joe Walsh The Player You Drink..., Randy Travis Heroes and Friends, Alan Parsons Project Eye in the Sky, all while watching 3 NFL games

Leonard Cohen Greatest Hits 2 disc. The first disc sounded fuzzy-distorted. This happens over time with every disc treatment I ever used. Washed it with pure water and very mild Dr Bonner's soap. Problem gone

I watched the movie Yesterday, interesting plot, so I dug out Beatles # Ones. Ouch, very digital

Cass County Don Henley (excellent recording)

Modern Cool Patricia Barber MoFi Gold

I watched a 4 part Paul Simon documentary last week (part 4 is good) dusting off my collection. First up, Hearts and Bones, much better than the critics said. Next up Graceland

Wilson Philips Greatest Hits a major torture CD that I play when Ive made changes to my system, Sounds much better after inserting 4 VeraFi Black Holes vibration/isolation devices. Highly recommended. I posted my review a while ago

Last week I began replacing cheap vibration device under all my kit, including speakers (which I did last) with Vera-FI LLC (VeriBlack Holes) VBHs. I started with just my Audiolab 6000 CDT, placing one directly under the spindle and was amazed, I then put them under my EVS 1200 amp (based on dual mono ICEpower AS 1200 modules). That was a head scratcher as at first the sound was flattened/rolled off: ~ 10 minutes later everything was fine again> Could it be the VBHs needed to settle under the much heavier amp? Next my Audio Alchemy DDP-1 (DAC/Pre) a definite thumbs up. I also have the optional AA PS 5 outboard power supply, similarly amazing improvement as was the transport. Closing out (well sort of) I placed 2 each under the fronts of my Emerald Physics 3.4 open baffle speakers, but ran out of gas (76 yo) and haven’t yet added the remaining 2 to the back of the speakers. I did a review which you might be interesting in finding. I do need to add more comments after listening to Tony Bennett and Friends vol1, Eagles Hell Freezes Over on Hotel California (IMP Joe Walsh’s guitar is the best version of all their albums) and sounded spectacular, as did the rest of the album. Finally, last night Jay Leonhart Salamander Pie DMP

HTH