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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #14085 on: July 29, 2021, 06:56:29 AM »
ZZ Top: Eliminator



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RIP Dusty   :(
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #14086 on: July 29, 2021, 08:19:52 AM »
Jethro Tull: Songs From the Wood - Live in Concert 1977



44/16 FLAC (CDs 2 & 3 from the 40th Anniversary Box Set)
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #14087 on: July 29, 2021, 10:41:44 AM »
The Doors: L. A. Woman



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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #14088 on: July 29, 2021, 11:08:30 AM »
Eric Clapton: 24 Nights



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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #14089 on: July 29, 2021, 01:49:02 PM »
Buddy Guy: Live at Legends



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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #14090 on: July 29, 2021, 02:04:14 PM »
Buddy Guy: The Blues is Alive and Well



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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #14091 on: July 29, 2021, 02:10:03 PM »
Van Morrison: Blowin' Your Mind!



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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #14092 on: July 29, 2021, 04:06:43 PM »
Bill Evans: Trio 64



HDTT DXD (352/24 FLAC)
Remember, it's all about the music........

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• McIntosh MC 275
• ARC SP-9
• VPI HW-19 Mk IV/SDS/SME IV/Soundsmith Carmen Mk II ES
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #14093 on: July 29, 2021, 04:54:13 PM »
Tidal just released two singles from Patricia Barber's upcoming album "Clique"(release date 8/6/21.

The songs, This Town and All is Fair in Love are good both musically and sonically, but what really caught my attention is that they are MQA encoded files that unpack to the full DXD (352/24) format (352/24), which was verified by the display on my DAC.

I never realized that MQA could go that high. It was my impression that MQA topped out at 192/24.

This could be an interesting development.

The album is being offered as an MQA encoded CD, although that will not do me any good as my DAC will only do MQA via the USB input and my CD layer lacks a USB output.

Remember, it's all about the music........

• Nola Boxers
• Sunfire True SW Super Jr (2)
• McIntosh MC 275
• ARC SP-9
• VPI HW-19 Mk IV/SDS/SME IV/Soundsmith Carmen Mk II ES
• Pro-Ject Pre Box S2 DAC/Rasp Pi Roon Endpoint
• DigiBuss/TWL PC&USB/MIT Cables

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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #14094 on: July 29, 2021, 08:01:44 PM »
Lyn Stanley: Live at Studio A



Tidal Streaming
Remember, it's all about the music........

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• Sunfire True SW Super Jr (2)
• McIntosh MC 275
• ARC SP-9
• VPI HW-19 Mk IV/SDS/SME IV/Soundsmith Carmen Mk II ES
• Pro-Ject Pre Box S2 DAC/Rasp Pi Roon Endpoint
• DigiBuss/TWL PC&USB/MIT Cables

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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #14095 on: July 29, 2021, 08:05:13 PM »
Lyn Stanley: The Moonlight Sessions, Volume Two



Tidal Streaming
Remember, it's all about the music........

• Nola Boxers
• Sunfire True SW Super Jr (2)
• McIntosh MC 275
• ARC SP-9
• VPI HW-19 Mk IV/SDS/SME IV/Soundsmith Carmen Mk II ES
• Pro-Ject Pre Box S2 DAC/Rasp Pi Roon Endpoint
• DigiBuss/TWL PC&USB/MIT Cables

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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #14096 on: July 29, 2021, 08:06:24 PM »
Just got this in from Japan, Art Pepper "Live from the Village Vanguard".  3 LP box set, Japanese King Records, promo.  They pressed several thousand; this one is #0079. 
This is from 3nights in 1977, a few years after Pepper was released from the penitentiary for drug charges.  His tone was tougher, less "pretty".  It's a more hard bop sound... for me, some of it hits, some not  so much.

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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #14097 on: July 29, 2021, 09:53:50 PM »
Tidal just released two singles from Patricia Barber's upcoming album "Clique"(release date 8/6/21.

The songs, This Town and All is Fair in Love are good both musically and sonically, but what really caught my attention is that they are MQA encoded files that unpack to the full DXD (352/24) format (352/24), which was verified by the display on my DAC.

I never realized that MQA could go that high. It was my impression that MQA topped out at 192/24.

This could be an interesting development.

The album is being offered as an MQA encoded CD, although that will not do me any good as my DAC will only do MQA via the USB input and my CD layer lacks a USB output.



That’s news to me as well. Thankfully, I’m still happily stuck in an nos dac time warp  :lol:
I am curious about that Pro-jest dac. How long have you had it and whaddya think?
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #14098 on: July 31, 2021, 12:42:36 AM »
The Covers: The Beatles Tribute Concert streamed via Roon

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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #14099 on: July 31, 2021, 12:49:55 AM »
ZZ Top Elimiator streamed via Roon

Orchard Starkrimson Ultra amp
Supratek Chardonnay preamp
JMR Voce Grande speakers
Border Patrol SEi dac
Holo Red streamer
Hapa Aero digital coax
WyWires Silver cables
TWL Digital American II p cord
Audio Envy p cords
Roon, Tidal, Qobuz
PI Audio UberBUSS