Wow Lon, I'm really digging this guy...How could I have never heard him before.  Well he's on my list. I have the ZROCK at about 5/8 EQ A....it's strange, at this level, EQ A and EQ B sound the same... It's amazing how good this sounds streaming from Spotify with the Red Dragonfly Dac and using the ZROCK.  I feel almost like I'm stealing...

Lon, I looked for that CD...it wasn't on spotify but i found this on youtube...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i3s2kf4LOA

As to the package...open my door yesterday after noon and there is sat on top of a box with a baker's dozen of LPs from ebay.  I haven't opened either but will have to enter the Cave this weekend and give the interconnects a whirl.

Yeah, glad that something is on youtube. (I don't do youtube myself, for some reason listening to music on that site just never does it for me).

Glad the package made it. Since an Xmas package I sent to my best friend never made it, I've been a bit anxious about packages this year. I'm interested in hearing about the interconnects, and whether you have the music on the two cds.

I will report Lon.

This Little Feat Live CD...Wow is all I can say!  This is what the ZROCK was made for...just 5/8 turn on EQ A makes it just right...

Lon, you were correct, I liked the Blue Mitchell CD...it had sort of a 70's Big Band vibe... a good thing.

Now CD #1 of this...

Miles Davis "Miles in the Sky" Mobile Fidelity Lab SACD

Sometimes I forget that in 2017 I bought myself the best tuner I've ever had, and after about 15 or more years with NO radio in the house at all I'm out of the habit of listening. So I've put it on and stuck the antenna up and am enjoying some excellent sounding Scriabin courtesy of the excellent listener-supported classical radio station in Lorain, about 65 miles away.

This tuner has been fun to play with as it uses a pair of 6922 type tubes. . . I rolled a few pairs and really like what a pair of Sylvania 7308 does in there. It also has both RCA and XLR output and it takes a 2.5 to 3 meter length to reach my ZTPRE and I purchased some nice WireWorld XLR cabling to use that wasn't too expensive but found that the one 3 meter length of VooDoo Cable Ultralinear RCA interconnects which even with RCA to XLR adaptors sounds better. . . What I am going to try next is running the Wireworld into the ZTPRE and the VooDoo into the second input of the Taboo and compare. It's great that with these Decware systems there's always something to experiment with!

Put in a newly acquired 1964 white label Amperex 7308.  The seller admitted he doesn't know much about tubes and said he had a simple Hicock tester that only told if the tube was good or not.  The photos showed great lettering and clean/newish pins...so I took a chance for 50 bucks...sounds good

I wish Steve would make a Tube tester for tubes used in his Amps...

Thomas Marriott "Individuation
"

Alto Saxophone – Rick Mandyck (tracks: 2, 3, 5)
Bass – Jeff Johnson (8)
Drums – John Bishop (3)
Piano, Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes] – David Budway
Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Thomas Marriott (2)
Vibraphone – Joe Locke (tracks: 2, 4, 5, 8)

If you find you have too many little white marked Amerexes you can send me some. I'm done buying for a while, but you can never have too many of those.

Don't feel alone. . .I'm addicted to buying things I love too.

That's a nice concert. I have it on CD.

A classic. I remember buying this when the two LP set came out and just spacing out over and over. Bremen Lausanne had prepared me for this. .  but still, this was more concentrate lyricism. This led me to a lot of solo piano music, including classical.

Right now I'm re-listening to the Thomas Marriott "Individuation" cd on headphones.

Yes, a wonderful recording that I remember listening to after tough days.  One word comes to mind...Glorious. I can't remember why this album popped into my head this morning but I hadn't heard it in a long time...I have it on CD and Vinyl but couldn't find either if I wanted to now without a search but Spotify now has ECM titles on it so listening there with the Red Dragonfly DAC to my Second system such as it is now.  It's hard to pull myself away from it but I really need to listen in the Cave today...I have more than 15 LPs bought off ebay that haven't been played yet.  I'm trying to decide if it's worth hooking up the ZROCK in the Cave.

I'll listen to that album you have on while I finish my coffee...Keith just finished.... well, after "Questar" that has begun playing...

HaHa...I understand.  The Judds are payment for Breakfast .  I know I have at least two LP copies of that Jarrett album and at least one on CD.  Someday I'd like to think I'll get organized so it would take less than a minute to find the album I want.  Most of the time I find something else to play before I've found what I was looking for. Such is my disorganized Life ...

This Marriott album is pretty good...despite the electric piano

PS...oooo way too many emojis!

Well, in the Cave now.  After turning everything on I remembered I wanted the new interconnects in the system.  So I discovered with the Torii MK IV while not connected to the CSP3 has some Left speaker noise.  I had noticed this previously and thought it was likely ZP3 tubes but apparently it's not.  I'm hoping it's not one of my new Mullard GZ 32s...but that search is for another day.  It's low enough it's not noticeable with music playing.

This LP first. A 1962 Big Band recording...

Whoo boy. Well, I don't have the answer, I don't remember how I set that pair up. The Ultralinear I have still, the 3 Meter, has identical ends and no arrows as well, that's why I had scotch tape on one end of each. If there's scotch tape or a remnant of scotch tape on any end, that's the "receiving" end, or in this case the amp end.

I would say whichever you choose if it sounds as if it's a little fuzzy or off, try it the other way and keep whichever sounds right.

That's how mine is too, why I put tape on one end! Right, the arrows always point away from the source end. . . so yes, towards amps and speakers.

I probably had the end with the gold lettering as the source end. . .

Cool. Probably was the way I had it. Happy listening. My house has been turned to Lucy's favorite network now, HGTV, the "White Entertainment Network." LOL

Glad the cables are working out so well.  I would have only done it for you.  I like some Chuck Mangione sometimes...not the Pop stuff that came in the late 70's onward.

This LP now is surprisingly good...all Herbie Hancock Compositions arranged by Bob Mintzer for Big Band and performed Live at Montreux in July of 1980...

Well now you're making me feel special!

No music for me for a while. Sometimes it's torturous, sometimes it's not. Today it's torturous enough I've decided to go grocery shopping!

Oh I do almost all the cooking so almost all the grocer shopping. But during weekday mornings; it's not really fun on Saturday afternoon when most everyone else is doing theirs.

But I can handle it, I'm made of tough stuff. I'm off!

Another great one from the One O'Clock Lab Band from 1979...