What are you listening to right now?

[Nick B]

Gee, I didn't know that many people were listening to me.

au contraire... 

[malloy]

Bill Evans Trio: Waltz for Debbie



DSD

And a little trivia about this album, "Debby" in the composition's title refers to Evans's niece, Debby Evans.

How much better is the DSD version? I've only ever heard the Riverside CD.

I don't have the original Riverside CD, but I do have a copy of the K2 Super Coding 20 bit Remaster



Compared to the DSD, the K2 sounds kind of flat from an imaging perspective. It is as if it was a picture being projected on a screen and everything only existed within the plane of that screen. With the DSD there is a definite sense of soundstage depth that is missing from the CD. In addition to a more precise placement of the instruments, both in width and depth, the DSD also gave me a better sense of the space an air between them  whereas with the CD the unoccupied space was ore dead and dark.

In total, while the CD sounded like a very good facsimile of the performance, the DSD just sounded more like real music.

All that said the CD is still quite good and the level of SQ in it us such that it definitely would not get in the way of sitting there and enjoying the music. But the DSDD is just s bit better around the audiophile edges.

Oohhh, now I am interested. Where do I get a DSD copy? I only see Sunday at the Village Vanguard available.

[tmazz]

Eric Clapton: Behind the Sun



Tidal MQA 48

2012 Remaster

[tmazz]

Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, Ray Brown: The Giants



Tidal Streaming

[tmazz]

Miles Davis: A Tribute to Jack Johnson



Tidal Streaming

[tmazz]

Bela Fleck: My Bluegrass Heart



Tidal MQA 44

[James Edward]

I hope this qualifies for entry to this thread- Today I had a painter over to do some- wait for it- painting. He’s been coming to the house over 20 years and has always been interested in listening to and appreciating my system. I had my speakers and rack covered with towels as I knew there was spackling and sanding to be done. As SOON as he was done and starting to pick up, he just looks at me and asks, ‘Can we listen to the system now?’
He loves drum stuff- Moby Dick went on, Iron Butterfly, Kodo drummers, and his favorite was- Castilian Drums by Dave Brubeck (Live- Carnegie Hall) AND, he feels Moby Dick’s drum solo was inspired by Castilian Drums.
There you have it.

[Nick B]

I hope this qualifies for entry to this thread- Today I had a painter over to do some- wait for it- painting. He's been coming to the house over 20 years and has always been interested in listening to and appreciating my system. I had my speakers and rack covered with towels as I knew there was spackling and sanding to be done. As SOON as he was done and starting to pick up, he just looks at me and asks, 'Can we listen to the system now?'
He loves drum stuff- Moby Dick went on, Iron Butterfly, Kodo drummers, and his favorite was- Castilian Drums by Dave Brubeck. AND, he feels Moby Dick's drum solo was inspired by Castilian Drums.
There you have it.

Sure it qualifies. I did a search and this came up on Amazon. Is this it?

[James Edward]

Yup- That’s the one. Quite a drum solo starting at 3:29.

[tmazz]

Mark Knopfler: Get Lucky



Vertigo CD (German Import)

[tmazz]

Clark Terry with Thelnious Monk: In Orbit



OJC/Riverside CD

[tmazz]

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers: Indestructible



Blue Note CD

[tmazz]

Duke Ellington: The Feeling of Jazz



Black Lion CD

This is the first release from Black Lion that I have been disappointed with. The sound is just kind of meh. It's not really bad, but for a session recorded in 1962 I expected much better.

[tmazz]

Tony Bennett: Life is Beautiful



Concord CD

[P.I.]

Eric Burdon has long been one of my favorites.  Saw them Him with War and Ten Years Qfter in 1970. Great show at the Palladium...

They absolutely killed it with this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-Xs7NK-7B8