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NOS Ericsson 396A driver on EC Af: smooth, light touch, detailed Feb 13, 2020 at 8:21 PM

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1. earnmyturns
  NOS Ericsson 396A driver on EC Af: smooth, light touch, detailed
  
  Feb 13, 2020 at 8:21 PM
  1. raif, kevnin, atomicbob and 1 other person like this.
  2. kevnin
    I'm a fan of Ericsson input tubes also, been using their 5842s in my 445 for a couple years now. Neutral sound signature and high technical performance.
    
    Feb 14, 2020 at 3:19 AM
2. earnmyturns
  Pi2AES>AES>Yggdrasil A2 wins today's streamer race.
  
  Feb 1, 2020
  1. atomicbob, Ntbm3, jexby and 4 others like this.
  2. Gaspasser
    Nice! Finally saw your post in the Pi2AES thread. Thanks for including all of the audio components used in the test.
    
    Feb 1, 2020
    
    jexby and Michael Kelly like this.
3. earnmyturns
  Zehetmair Bach "Sei Solo" > Yggdrasil A2 > EC Aficionado > Verité C: shivers
  
  Jan 1, 2020
  1. Jinxy245, Wilson, Gaspasser and 3 others like this.
4. earnmyturns
  Solo Guitar, José Luis Montón: Yggdrasil+Af+Verité bring it right here
  
  Oct 20, 2019
  1. ChaChaRealSmooth, Jinxy245, hikergrl and 1 other person like this.
  2. Ksaurav402
    Solo Guitarra?
    
    Oct 20, 2019
    
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5. earnmyturns
  Totally entrained by François Joubert-Caillet: Marin Marais 2me Livre de Pièces de Viole > Yggdrasil > EC Af > Verité silkwood
  
  Oct 17, 2019
  1. Gaspasser, Cspirou and Jinxy245 like this.
6. earnmyturns
  Charlie Haden & Chris Anderson "None But the Lonely Heart"
  
  Oct 13, 2019
  1. atomicbob, starence, Wilson and 1 other person like this.
7. earnmyturns
  Yggdrasil A2>EC Af>Verité silkwood+Verité pads: the apex for jazz bass, sax, clarinet
  
  Sep 10, 2019
  1. hikergrl, Phantaminum, sheldaze and 2 others like this.
8. earnmyturns
  Enrico Rava+Joe Lovano's "Roma">Allo USBridge>Yggdrasil A2 Unison>EC Af>ZMF Verité silkwood+Verité pads: I wish you were here
  
  Sep 6, 2019
  1. ChaChaRealSmooth, hikergrl, Richgard and 6 others like this.
  2. tommytakis
    wow I like this album a lot! Not the same setup, but listening w/ my Verite as well :)
    
    Sep 6, 2019
    
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  3. Jinxy245
    I was bummed your link was "YouTube Premium" only....I love Joe Lovano, this is probably insanely good.
    
    Sep 7, 2019
  4. earnmyturns
    Sorry, didn't realize the "Premium" (I have paid YT/music). Can't find another link on YT, but there are some snippets on Facebook.
    
    Sep 7, 2019
    
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9. earnmyturns
  EC Af + Verité silkwood: yum
  
  Aug 17, 2019
  1. Syzygy, Ash1412, Lyander and 5 others like this.
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  3. earnmyturns
    Verité pads on, now the question is whether 1) 44.1/16 digital, 2) 48/24 rip of the vinyl, or 3) Qobuz 192/24... Doing 3), I hear it!
    
    Aug 17, 2019
  4. earnmyturns
    #[email protected]%!!! This setup brings CotB to a different plane, the interplay between bass, cymbals, flute in "Q&A" never came so alive!
    
    Aug 17, 2019
    
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  5. ChaChaRealSmooth
    Screw you dude; here I am trying to patiently wait for my own Verite...luckily the Auteur is here to keep me sane-ish.
    
    Aug 17, 2019
    
    Syzygy, Phantaminum, earnmyturns and 1 other person like this.
10. earnmyturns
  "There Is No Other", Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi: can't stop listening
  
  Jun 8, 2019
  1. bixby and Jinxy245 like this.
11. earnmyturns
  Verité silkood, Universe suede pads. Best jazz bass & drums.
  
  May 24, 2019
  1. Gaspasser, Jinxy245, dubharmonic and 2 others like this.
12. earnmyturns
  Rajna Swaminathan "Of Agency and Abstraction"
  
  May 1, 2019
13. earnmyturns
  Myra Melford's "City of Illusion" in "Other Side of Air" through Phonitor XE: raw, shiver-inducing
  
  Apr 27, 2019
  1. Lou Casadonte and Jinxy245 like this.
  2. Lou Casadonte
    Curious how you like the phonitor xe? Are you using the internal dac? Travel Safe!
    
    Apr 28, 2019
  3. earnmyturns
    Best headphone amp I've used (for the music I listen to). Metrum Onyx DAC.
    
    Apr 28, 2019
    
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  4. Lou Casadonte
    I heard good things about the onyx. Would love to hear it sometime. Thanks,
    
    Apr 28, 2019
14. earnmyturns
  James Brandon Lewis's "An UnRuly Manifesto" is what the times demand
  
  Apr 15, 2019
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  2. Wilson
    9th one down https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/54133.Andr_Breton?page=2
    
    Apr 15, 2019
    
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15. earnmyturns
  Chris Potter's "Circuits" matches his live sessions!
  
  Feb 27, 2019
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16. earnmyturns
  Metrum Onyx>Apex Peak+Psvane 6SN7-SE: magic from jazz piano, bass, drums
  
  Feb 24, 2019
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  3. m17xr2b
    The Peak is great, no faults whatsoever but it doesn't have the technicalities of proper SET/OTL amps nor the smoothness so it doesn't belong with the big boys. Massdrop and many <1K are low-fi IMO.
    
    Feb 24, 2019
  4. m17xr2b
    @earnmyturns, I'm saying the peak is mid-fi because I'm currently listening to it with the K1000 and it's a great experience, but earlier in the day I was using the Teton...and the difference between the two is not small to put it lightly. Using ECC32 btw.
    
    Feb 24, 2019
  5. earnmyturns
    I listen to a lot of live modern jazz, and one thing I can't fault the Peak for, relative to the live sound, is smoothness. If anything, live performances, even in the best venues acoustic-wise, sound somewhat rougher. But you are tempting me to find what I'm missing ;)
    
    Feb 24, 2019
17. earnmyturns
  Can't stop listening to "The Other Side": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4Nc0s_0cYs
  
  Sep 13, 2018
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  2. Jinxy245
    Damn that's beautiful. Thank you (for all of the stuff you share)
    
    Sep 14, 2018
    
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18. earnmyturns
  On speakers and big living room screen, Chris Potter, Dave Holland, Zakir Hussain! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPCjTbjG8V0
  
  Sep 9, 2018
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19. earnmyturns
  Even more all over the place: https://www.earningmyturns.org/2018/08/latest-month-in-music.html
  
  Aug 12, 2018
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  2. Wilson
    How's the Bill Frisell?
    
    Aug 12, 2018
  3. earnmyturns
    1984 Frisell with Paul Motian, Kenny Wheeler, Jerome Harris (electric bass) and Bob Stewart (tuba!) is as zany as you could expect from those cats back then ;) Not the mellower, Americana-inflected Frisell of 2000+
    
    Aug 12, 2018
    
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  4. earnmyturns
    There's quite a traveling circus feeling to it
    
    Aug 12, 2018
20. earnmyturns
  Musically all over the place: https://www.earningmyturns.org/2018/05/seven-days-of-recorded-music.html
  
  May 25, 2018
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https://sites.google.com/site/fernandopereira/

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computer scientist

Gear List:

Allo USBridge+DietPi > Schiit Yggdrasil A2
Raspberry Pi+Pi2 Design 502DAC+piCorePlayer >Soekris dac1541
Neurochrome HP-1
Phonitor XE
Apex Peak + Volcano + {Psvane ..., Ken-Rad VT231, Reliatron D-getter, ...}
A&ultima SP1000M
ZMF Verité silkwood
MrSpeakers Ether C Flow 1.1
MrSpeakers Æon C
InEar ProPhile 8
Linn Klimax and Kiko speaker systems

I listen mostly to contemporary jazz (Dave Holland, Eric Harland, Brad Mehldau, Jason Moran, David Virelles, Charles Lloyd, Mark Turner, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Vijay Iyer, Wadada Leo Smith, Chris Potter, Brian Blade, John Scofield, Julian Lage, Bill Frisell, John Abercrombie, Ami Elsaffar, Warren Wolf, Dave Douglas, John Taylor, Craig Taborn, sadly late Charlie Haden, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Ralph Towner, Joshua Redman, John Surman, Danilo Pérez, Brad Shepik, Antoni Sanchez, Ethan Iverson, The Bad Plus, Marc Ribot, Lionel Loueke, Billy Hart, Joe Lovano, ...) recorded and live (thanks SFJAZZ, Yoshi's, Kuumba!), West African (Toumani Diabaté, Ballaké Sissoko, Rokia Traoré, Nuru Kane, Orchestra Baobab, ...), North African (Anouar Brahem, ...), Persian (Kayhan Kalhor, ...), early/baroque/Iberian/Mediterranean (Jordi Savall, ...), classical baroque (Bach interpreters like András Schiff, Richard Egarr, Midori, Pierre Fournier, Helmut Walcha, ...), late 19th-20th-21st century classical (Debussy, Bartók, Stravinsky, Berg, Ligeti, Boulez, Glass, Adams, Saariaho, ...).
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