Another eclectic Friday night listening session last night that lasted well into 4 AM this morning. When you don’t focus on the sound of the equipment but rather just relax and get lost in the music, time just flys by as you go from one song to the next.
The combination of Roon, HQPlayer and Tidal is such a nice way to tap into one’s library & listen to old favorites and to expands one’s musical horizon.
Last night I started the night listening with the Weiss DAC 202 with the HQP XTR filter at 192KHz and then switched to the T+A DAC8 DSD at DSD512 and finished the listening session with my reference one-of-a-kind LampizatOr DSD-Only DAC with the HQP EC7 modulator. Each of the three DACs has its own dedicated HQPlayer custom server that I specified, designed, and assembled to get the most out of HQPlayer at the time.
Everyone has their own musical taste and as I peruse the online high-end audio forums and listen to some of the reference tracks others suggest as examples to reproduce sound attributes or to showcase their systems, most songs do not resonate with me as I have always been more into what lies left of the dial.
I know that I will eventually switch back to the big Wisdom Audio Adrenaline Rush/Wilson Audio WAMM Series VIIA subwoofer towers based system but for now I continue to thoroughly enjoy my new Thomas Mayer 10Y Silver preamplifier/46 SET-DHT amplifier/ Loth-X Troubadour - Stamm driver system.
Here are a few gems from last night’s listening session: