Speakers
Red Rose Classic / Dynaudio Contour 1.8 Mk II / Elac 203.2
Sources (digital only)
Philips CD753 / Hegel Rost (via pre outs) / Xiang Sheng DAC05B (via line, GE5670 tube and balanced outs) / Chromecast Audio / TeraDak TDA1543 NOS DAC / DIY Linux based PC with Roon server
Other
Acoustic room treatment / speaker isolation / FIR based DSP (Roon convolution)
Music used - Albums (format used Artist "name of the album" - standout tracks)*
Alice in Chains "Unplugged" - Sludge Factory - Frogs / Jeff Buckley "Grace" - So Real - Forget Her / Tool "Aenima" - Eulogy - Forty Six & 2 / Mad Season "Above" - River of Deceit / PJ Harvey "Dry" - Happy and Bleading / Beck "Sea Change" - Guess I'm Doing Fine, Lost Cause / Miles Davis "Milestones" - Two Bass Hit, Billy Boy / Soften the Glare "Making Faces" - March of the Cephalopods, What Chandra Sees / Peter Gabriel "So" - Mercy Street, This is the Picture / Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" - Oh Daddy, Gold Dust Woman / Black Sabbath "Black Sabbath" (2009 Remaster) - The Wizard, Warning / Opeth "Heritage" - Haxprocess / Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong "Ella & Louis" - They Can't Take That Away From Me, Cheek to Cheek / Rage Against the Machine "Rage Against the Machine" - Bullet in the Head, Know Your Enemy / Green Day "Dookie" - When I Come Around / System of a Down "Mezmerize" - B.Y.O.B. - Question!/ A Perfect Circle "Eat the Elephant" - Eat the Elephant, Disillusioned / Norah Jones "Come Away with Me" - Turn Me On, I've Got To See You Again / Myles Kennedy "Year of the Tiger" - The Great Beyond, Nothing But a Name, Mother / Ashley Monroe "Sparrow" - Paying Attention / Esperanza Spalding "Emily's D+Evolution" - I Want It Now / B.B. King "Live at the Regal" - How Blue Can You Get?; Worry, Worry / John Coltrance "A Love Supreme" / Yello "Essential Yello" - The Race
*All the above were losssless 16/44.1 FLAC, either streamed from Tidal or local library. Also a number of 24/96 and DSD64.
Individual tracks used*
Just a Little Lovin' - Shelby Lynne / Little Green - Joni Mitchell / Valley of Neptune - Jimi Hendrix / Red or Dead - Randi Tytingvag / Show Me the Place - Leonard Cohen / Every Morning - Keb Mo / A Case of You - Diana Krall (Live in Paris) / The Outsider - A Perfect Circle / Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden / Fingertip - Esbjorn Svensson Trio / Lonely Woman - Ornette Coleman / Morning - Beck / Export Import - Tosca / My God - Jethro Tull / Junjo Epseranza - Spalding / Freedom! '90 - George Michael / Nara - E.S. Posthumus / Riders on the Storm - The Doors / Blackbird - Alter Bridge / Thanks for your Time - Gotye / Arithmophobia - Animals as Leaders / Inner City Blues - The Mayfield Four / Fly Me to the Moon - Frank Sinatra / Real Good Hands - Gregory Porter / Carribean Blue - Enya / Nightswimming - R.E.M. / Whiskey Lullaby - Alison Krauss / Tin Pan Alley - Stevie Ray Vaughan / Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd / Rich Woman - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss / Money - Pink Floyd / Do the Best - Tantsui
*Same quality as above except for last track source being YouTube
Red Rose Classic / Dynaudio Contour 1.8 Mk II / Elac 203.2
Sources (digital only)
Philips CD753 / Hegel Rost (via pre outs) / Xiang Sheng DAC05B (via line, GE5670 tube and balanced outs) / Chromecast Audio / TeraDak TDA1543 NOS DAC / DIY Linux based PC with Roon server
Other
Acoustic room treatment / speaker isolation / FIR based DSP (Roon convolution)
Music used - Albums (format used Artist "name of the album" - standout tracks)*
Alice in Chains "Unplugged" - Sludge Factory - Frogs / Jeff Buckley "Grace" - So Real - Forget Her / Tool "Aenima" - Eulogy - Forty Six & 2 / Mad Season "Above" - River of Deceit / PJ Harvey "Dry" - Happy and Bleading / Beck "Sea Change" - Guess I'm Doing Fine, Lost Cause / Miles Davis "Milestones" - Two Bass Hit, Billy Boy / Soften the Glare "Making Faces" - March of the Cephalopods, What Chandra Sees / Peter Gabriel "So" - Mercy Street, This is the Picture / Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" - Oh Daddy, Gold Dust Woman / Black Sabbath "Black Sabbath" (2009 Remaster) - The Wizard, Warning / Opeth "Heritage" - Haxprocess / Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong "Ella & Louis" - They Can't Take That Away From Me, Cheek to Cheek / Rage Against the Machine "Rage Against the Machine" - Bullet in the Head, Know Your Enemy / Green Day "Dookie" - When I Come Around / System of a Down "Mezmerize" - B.Y.O.B. - Question!/ A Perfect Circle "Eat the Elephant" - Eat the Elephant, Disillusioned / Norah Jones "Come Away with Me" - Turn Me On, I've Got To See You Again / Myles Kennedy "Year of the Tiger" - The Great Beyond, Nothing But a Name, Mother / Ashley Monroe "Sparrow" - Paying Attention / Esperanza Spalding "Emily's D+Evolution" - I Want It Now / B.B. King "Live at the Regal" - How Blue Can You Get?; Worry, Worry / John Coltrance "A Love Supreme" / Yello "Essential Yello" - The Race
*All the above were losssless 16/44.1 FLAC, either streamed from Tidal or local library. Also a number of 24/96 and DSD64.
Individual tracks used*
Just a Little Lovin' - Shelby Lynne / Little Green - Joni Mitchell / Valley of Neptune - Jimi Hendrix / Red or Dead - Randi Tytingvag / Show Me the Place - Leonard Cohen / Every Morning - Keb Mo / A Case of You - Diana Krall (Live in Paris) / The Outsider - A Perfect Circle / Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden / Fingertip - Esbjorn Svensson Trio / Lonely Woman - Ornette Coleman / Morning - Beck / Export Import - Tosca / My God - Jethro Tull / Junjo Epseranza - Spalding / Freedom! '90 - George Michael / Nara - E.S. Posthumus / Riders on the Storm - The Doors / Blackbird - Alter Bridge / Thanks for your Time - Gotye / Arithmophobia - Animals as Leaders / Inner City Blues - The Mayfield Four / Fly Me to the Moon - Frank Sinatra / Real Good Hands - Gregory Porter / Carribean Blue - Enya / Nightswimming - R.E.M. / Whiskey Lullaby - Alison Krauss / Tin Pan Alley - Stevie Ray Vaughan / Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd / Rich Woman - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss / Money - Pink Floyd / Do the Best - Tantsui
*Same quality as above except for last track source being YouTube
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