What are you listening to right now?

[JStewart]

 

[3dbinCanada]

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Awesome choices "J"!!!

 

[3dbinCanada]

Here are yesterday's listening selections

 

[JStewart]

Awesome choices "J"!!!

Thank you! The listening session wound up flowing to an order for this

@Michael Scott had nice things to say about the remixed Atmos Soundtrack. Perfect format for the music of Vangelis, I think.

 

[NBPK402]

A little funk....

 

[JStewart]

@3dbinCanada , as I once again find myself listening to snippets from your posts and bookmarking to come back for some quality time with the music, I’m amazed at the size and breadth of your collection. Well done.

 

[3dbinCanada]

@3dbinCanada , as I once again find myself listening to snippets from your posts and bookmarking to come back for some quality time with the music, I’m amazed at the size and breadth of your collection. Well done.

Thank you. I have turned around and said the same thing to many others in dedicated music listening threads in other forums and I pale in comparison to them.

 

[3dbinCanada]

Here are yesterday's listening selections,

 

[bobinuta]

Bruce Springsteen - Tougher Than the Rest​

Pink Floyd - Sorrow​

Within Temptation - Faster​

 

[bobinuta]

Nightwish - Storytime​

Paola Turci - Off-Line​

Giusy Ferreri - Momenti perfetti​

Five Finger Death Punch - Wrong Side Of Heaven​

 

[NBPK402]

This morning...a little bit different, but so revealing on my new speaker tune. One thing i have done is to max the volume on the Athena and use the Lumin to control the volume fed to the Athena preamp.

 

[ddude003]

@NBPK402,
Hmm... You are more or less bypassing the 60 Steps Microprocessor Controlled Relay Based Stepped Attenuator in favor of the Leedh Processing?

 

[NBPK402]

@NBPK402,
Hmm... You are more or less bypassing the 60 Steps Microprocessor Controlled Relay Based Stepped Attenuator in favor of the Leedh Processing?

Yes, and I can tell a difference in the sound with the Athena volume at 38 vs 60 and the Leedh volume matched. I am doing this because the Atehena does not have HT bypass and this was recommended by Alvin @ Vinshine to prevent having a blast when switching from sources on the Marantz to source on the Athena. You have it too, right?

Here is a link to Roon where they talk about it...Another link here.

 

[NBPK402]

here is a nice old cd that was made for Audiophiles years ago...haven't listened to it in a long time till tonight.

https://tidal.com/browse/album/13951157

 

[ddude003]

Yes, and I can tell a difference in the sound with the Athena volume at 38 vs 60 and the Leedh volume matched. I am doing this because the Atehena does not have HT bypass and this was recommended by Alvin @ Vinshine to prevent having a blast when switching from sources on the Marantz to source on the Athena. You have it too, right?

Here is a link to Roon where they talk about it...Another link here.

We all have our various paths to AV NIRVANA... And if this works out as the best path for you then that's great... With my kit and signal path, full blast via the U1 mini, Chord Quest DAC and into my Preamp sounds best for me in my room and my brain with my 2.1 system... I have HT bypass and do not use it... I run L and R pre outs from my AVR, with some attenuation, directly into my Preamp and the rest of the channels, center and surrounds, are powered by the AVR... Horses for courses... And yea, I don't use Tidal... Qobuz for me... And please, no DSD... Its all about the small signals...

 

[ddude003]

 

[NBPK402]

We all have our various paths to AV NIRVANA... And if this works out as the best path for you then that's great... With my kit and signal path, full blast via the U1 mini, Chord Quest DAC and into my Preamp sounds best for me in my room and my brain with my 2.1 system... I have HT bypass and do not use it... I run L and R pre outs from my AVR, with some attenuation, directly into my Preamp and the rest of the channels, center and surrounds, are powered by the AVR... Horses for courses... And yea, I don't use Tidal... Qobuz for me... And please no DSD... Its all about the small signals...

Down the road... I will more than likely sell the Marantz (when we move to Europe and it would require a transformer and be worth nothing in europe due to the voltage requiring an external transformer), and most likely get a thousand dollar avr, and maybe replace the Athena some day with a preamp with HT bypass. For now I think the way I have it is best for my situation.

I agree that controlling your volume should be done at the preamp and the source volume should id e ally be used only for matching levels. Who knows...6 months from now I may go back to full on the Lumin and use the Athena volume. It makes a differnce in sound and if I go back later it is a new experience for me again.

 

[ddude003]

 

[ddude003]

 

[3dbinCanada]

I'm back home having spent last Monday to yesterday helping my daughter out while her hubby is out on maneuvers. I'll be bouncing back and forth for the rest of April.

I had his waiting for me when I got home. Unpacked it and shoe horned it into my main system in the basement.

 

[3dbinCanada]

Yesterday's listening sessions

You may know "The Cramps" if you watched "Wednesday" on Netflix

 

[ddude003]

Having a little fun...

 

[ddude003]

Some is good... More is better... And too much... Is just right...

 

[3dbinCanada]

Good morning and happy saturday. Here's yesterday's listening selections. Its quite extensive. I will put them in as thumbnails



While eating supper and listening to the cassette

 

[3dbinCanada]

Yesterday's listening sessions