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Dang! I have a Sony BDP-580, not a 590.

The BDB-580 is so close. Almost a right model. I paid $300 for a new Pioneer BDP-80fp just to rip SACDs. Audiophiles have a strange way of justifying purchases like that. For me it means I can make drunk purchases of $6 SACDs without guilt as long as I ignore that initial $300 sunk cost.

Sounds like a great problem to have. The last time I did this, I ended up with some cool single take modern classical recordings.

I don’t have a crimson. I do have a fire and platinum. I’ve only heard the crimson twice at meets. The Cavalli blended hybrids are a different sound than the glass. No tube is going to get the glass to sound like the blended hybrids. They’re different. Yin and yang.

The blended hybrids sound more like their solid state side. The glass sounds like the tubes with the amp running with no global feedback. The glass lets the tube freak flag fly.

Can’t really call the glass softer or less incisive because so much depends on the tubes. I can make the glass sound aggressive or soft or incisive or mushy by changing tubes. It’s difficult to describe the sound qualities of the liquid glass because whatever you try to describe depends on the tubes.

Here's her KEXP performance live on KEXP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5zhoRBUSbE

That does not sound like the title of a happy song.
(edit: thought I got this in directly below @Lyander's post)

Thanks for the recommendation. I bought her albums.

I've done this so much with DSOTM I don't even listen to it anymore haha... speaking of floyd what do you think of the 2019 "dry" mix of delicate sound of thunder ?

Looking forward to your impressions of the amp.

I'm embarrassed to say that I don't yet have the 2019 remix releases. So I haven't listened to that "dry" mix yet. I'll get a round tuit. I have a lot of Floyd and Floyd covers. But not everything.

https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=38967

I'm excited the LG X is finally available. I'd have already ordered one but I'm thinking of waiting a week or so till the smoke clears a bit in the Portland area. I don't want the shipping and delivery people out working in this smoke just to get me an amp sooner.

I'm happy you got it. Don't have any guilt. I got lucky and was able to buy a Liquid Glass by being online here early in the morning when one came up for sale. It's only fair that others get lucky too.

I already have a Fire and Glass so I'm doing fine. Very fine. My desire for a Crimson would be to get me to buy an LCD-4. The Fire loses its balls and sounds more angelic (relatively) as the headphone impedance goes up. Not ideal for the LCD-4. The Crimson and Glass don't have that problem. The Platinum doesn't either.

Damn, I want a LG too. Very hard to come by for 230 Volters.

Uh...I wasn't aware that was an issue. I haven't seen any reports of the power brick dying.

Not a current issue I'm aware of. I'm playing the long game. I want this amp sound to still work in 10 years. 5 or 10 years from now I may not be able to get the right spec replacement power supply for this amp. $484 is inexpensive insurance. Heck, I'll spend that on tubes for the amp over 10 years.

One thing I should mention is that I already own a Liquid Fire and Liquid Glass. The LP is not my primary amp. When I want to indulge I listen to the LF or LG. I consider the LP to be my transportable amp and second system amp. It's a lower tier than the LF and LG and I don't expect the cap mod to change that. I still find the LP worthwhile to listen to even when I've got the LF and LG two feet away.

Any drone recommendations?

Most of the drone music I listen to is in the doom metal, drone metal, drone doom, or stoner genres. I like the power and slow flow of the bass drones. Bands like Sunn O))), Sleep, Earth, Om. There are also other styles of drone like Bass Communion (Steven Wilson) that can venture into drone styles. I need to explore some of the electronic drone style music. I've heard some pipe organ music get into drone.

For Sunn O))) try
Monoliths & Dimensions: https://sunn.bandcamp.com/album/monoliths-dimensions
White 1: https://sunn.bandcamp.com/album/white1

My collection isn't focused on a style or genre. A mix of classical, jazz, experimental, electronic, stoner, drone, metal, jams, whatever catches my interest at the time.

A pleasant surprise on Bandcamp is finding out that what I bought ends up being in high-res or better than 16/44.1

Colin Stetson's "SORROW - a reimagining of Gorecki's 3rd Symphony" is neat and the Bandcamp download version is in 24/48. https://colinstetson.bandcamp.com/album/sorrow-a-reimagining-of-goreckis-3rd-symphony

@elmoe waaaaaay ahead of ya bruh: https://youtu.be/ozu4MW7eT2c

@neogeosnk reserving my thoughts for now but would actually be curious to hear your impressions of em if/when you get to demo

@Lyander I'm going on a scavenger hunt in downtown LA & Pasadena to find some Grados and Klipsch Heresy speakers.

In all seriousness - is consumer reports still relevant as a whole anymore?

These recordings were released 10 years ago. But only as lossy. The lossless downloads are more recent. Lossless archive has 330 files. Lossy archive has 320 files. It will be some work to figure out what is what and what belongs. I tagged and organized the lossy files 10 years ago. Now to do the lossless ones.

If you figure it out, you can copy and paste tags en masse in J River Media Center.. Just figure out what 10 don't match up.

That is the purpose of my neighbors' teenagers existence.

Not good news. I've been using freedb since the very beginning. About 20 years ago. I’ve contributed many CDs. Onward now to MusicBrainz.

Damn, that's sad news.

MusicBrainz is good but often frustrating, I can’t tell you how many times it decided that my individual albums were actually compilations and overwrote the metadata.