michaelburke

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Whats on your turntable tonight?
Abbey Road — I seem to have acquired three copies — I don’t know.  At any rate it sounds good. 
Whats playing on your system today?
Ella and Louis — on a new system with Klipsch Fortes and McIntosh amplification.  
Jazz for aficionados
Right now listening to Thelonious Monk Complete Riverside recordings on LP.  Complete bliss. 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Thelonious Monk, specifically the Complete Riverside recordings.  They sound so much better than the CD version.  I was feeling a little queasy from an odd dinner, but the Monk revived me.  Music is powerful medicine. 
SACD Player--Do you use it and feel you'd replace it if it broke?
Unquestionably the SACD format is better than CDs, and is in many ways the equal to vinyl in tonality.  I would definitely replace a broken SACD player, in fact, I have already done so.  My current player is a McIntosh model 600 which is superb.  ... 
Streamer choices
I’ve had a rather rocky road with the Cambridge and prefer the Blusound Node 2i.  The Cambridge kept lousing the stream.  I use a Toslink connection to a McIntosh C52 preamp.  It seems to work well—I’m listening to it as I type this.