curiousjim
Responses from curiousjim
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report Jon Anderson, Olias Of Sunhillow.(1976) | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Jon Anderson, Olias Of Sunhillow.(1976) | |
| Tune of the Day | |
| Jazz for aficionados I tried to listen to Melissa Aldana, Echoes From The Inner Prophet, but it is definitely not to my liking. YRMV. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Hampton Hawes, For Real, was just remastered and is sounding good. Hawes is another one who was gone way to soon! | |
| Listening Room My current listening room is also our family room and the way I have it set up, I can push the speakers back three feet and it’s pretty safe to do family stuff in. | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report @ghosthouse The Sonus Farber rep came down with Covid, so we pushed it off for a couple of weeks. I’m interested in the Amati G5 and they want me to but they want me to buy Lilium. | |
| ADD or Audiophile? I used to dream about having the time to listen, to really listen to music. Now that I am retired and have more time, I find that I can’t sit that long anymore more.🙁 Ao a lot of my listening is almost background music, I’m sad to say. It’s not A... | |
| KEF LS50 Meta The LS50’ and the LS50 Metas are great speakers and your amps will drive them without issue. Like any speaker, you will need to fiddle with placement and unless you are using them as near field, you will probably want an subwoofer to go with them.... | |
| Leaving tube amps on. ghdprentice Plus 1! Even with solid state, unless the amps have been unplugged for months, they will sound 99% after 15-30 minutes. My preamp and amps are hybrid, where the input stage (where the tubes are) shuts off, but the rest of the unit is ... | |
| 5 steps in developing hearing I’ve been in level 4 and 5 for decades. Oh and I have heard the word prat before, but have definitely never heard Prat before. | |
| SCAMMER ALERT! Listing ID: lisb9h3h Thanks for the warning and thanks to the Agon mods for suspending the ad. | |
| How many monthly kilowatt hours, including hi-fi, do you use? I have no idea what percent of my electric bill is because of my equipment, nor do I particularly care. The system is always on. The mono blocks draw 75 watts each, when they are on standby and the preamp is maybe 25. The DAC and streamer are on 2... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @acman3 I saw it on Discogs and was really surprised to find a CD. I would have thought that if it was digitized for a CD it would be on Qobuz. | |
| ABX testing with AQ Dragon power cords @jdougs Oops.😁 |