curiousjim
Responses from curiousjim
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report Listening to Robin Trower, For Earth Below. (2025 Remaster) The original album is 50 years old and it’s still a good listen. | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report For the first time in I bet ten years, I pulled out Tracy Chapman’s first album. It’s a short (36m13s) well recorded album. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Qobuz directed me to Alan Broadbent, Threads of time. Recorded in ‘24 and released in ‘25. A new recording with a very old feel. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Listening to Lee Morgan, Here’s Lee Morgan. (1960-2025 Remaster) | |
| Shipping advice for Esoteric @mbump You might want to get a price from DHL. International is what they do best. All the best. | |
| Shipping advice for Esoteric @mbump I have had great experiences shipping on pallets using Estes. And if you’re shipping to someone’s home, for a bit more, they will drop the pallet right by their front door. All the best. | |
| Cable agnostic to convert (within budget) I too had minimal differences with the Tornado PC’s and ended up with the Clarus Crimson PC’s, both HC and source. Noticeable difference? Yes, but if I had bought new, I’d have a hard time justifying the price of anyone’s cables. The mark ups ... | |
| Leave it on? If you listen every day or so, leave everything on. If you listen once a week or less, turn everything off. I also turn off everything delicate when thunder boomers are approaching. I lost an amp once from lightning. | |
| What do you do when you get a bad vinyl record pressing? Years ago my wife started indiscriminately using some of my albums to make christmas gifts. I wasn’t sure for a while if I married the right woman. | |
| My New System @cueball9 Congratulations! 🎈🎉🍾 I’m maybe there. While I am mostly happy with my system, the lack of local hifi shops and the abundance of new and improved products sometimes nags at me. For now, I have my forever sources, amps and speakers,... | |
| How competitive are you with your system? Everything I do with my love of music is for me. The guy who was the best man at my wedding happily still uses the receiver and speakers that we bought when we were in college. My brother happily listens to his tunes through his phones speakers. ... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Listening to Joshua Redman, Words Fall Short album again. Not once has the sound gone past 70dbs and that’s just perfect. | |
| So, “Audio Science Review” really doesn’t like this video @knownothing Thanks for the validation. With all the different ears and beliefs out there, I sometimes question whether I hear what I think I hear. 😀 | |
| Jazz for aficionados Watermelon man, Esperanza Spalding and Robert Glasper https://youtu.be/zykaLKkPQaY?si=VmC-jvlJ-snvh01_ | |
| Qobuz vs Airplay I listen to Qobuz in the car with AirPlay with the standard car radio. |