I use my K11 on my desktop system, it works real well in the nearfield system.

My hatred of Bluetooth was recently put on hold when I bought a Ampapa D1 class D chip amplifier for my bedroom system.

It is darn convenient just to Bluetooth my iphone to it to play "Lullabies " to whisk me off to sleep at night. It sure isn't for critical listening, but it helps to give my mind something to chew on instead of my current obsessions.

Plus it has VU meters!

I had a slight compatibility issue so I swapped out the K11 with the K13 to try out bluetooth. Streaming on an iphone was OK (its an old phone that wont accept one of the LDAC bluetooth codac transmitters), plugging it in sounded much better. Been testing out digital via bluetooth and cable versus vinyl. Listening to Nina Simone's Pastel Blue sounds epic on vinyl, pretty good with cable and good on bluetooth assuming I am doing other things as well.

All in all a good initial dive into digital streaming. The K13 is going to stay, the K11 might go to my desktop, or may go back. Bluetooth is so convenient that the net result is just more music, which is a win.

Every system, room, taste, tube complement is different. I've tried those JJ in the past. . . Wasn't a keeper in my amp. (Which is not a Zen amp).

I have that same rectifier PSVANE 274b and it was in my zen for the past year. last month I tried some cheap JJ gz34 that I haven't used for 10+ years (those were temporary backup tubes). Turns out, it sounds great in my UFO and the amp runs much cooler.
I want to experiment with other tube like Globe 80 but so far it does the job perfectly

Mozart and Haydn had one of the great bromances in the history of (classical) music. After Haydn published is groundbreaking Op. 33 string quartets Mozart dedicated an equal groundbreaking set of quartets, now known as the Haydn Quartets. And near the end of his life he alluded to some of Haydn's later quartets in his final string quintets K. 593 and 614.



On CD

These are not particularly popular, but they should be. Esp. as played by the Auyrn Quartet.

Sure, just checking what the case work look like?

"The Continental Sessions Volume 1" Storyville cd

Edmond Hall & his Cafe Society Orchestra, Clyde Hart All-Stars, Slam Stewart Quintet



Tracks 1 to 4 recorded in New York City, probably in December 1945.
Tracks 5 to 13 recorded in New York City on January 4, 1945.
Track 14 to 21 recorded in New York City on May 28, 1945.
Tracks 22 to 25 recorded in New York City on July 10, 1945.

Yes, the SDFB do make a difference--I have three in my main system and one in my audio/visual system. I've tried five different types of Sluggos in them. . .and have decided the Graphene are the cat's meow.

This just came to me earlier this week (love the packaging Acoustic Sounds uses for these Steely Dan pressings) and finally getting the change to give it a spin.

I absolutely love the way my Decware gear makes the Klipsch Forte IVs sing.  I just put my Swiss Digital Fuseboxes into the power chain and I swear there’s a slight expansion the soundstage, wider and taller if that’s possible.  At first I thought it was just nature of the UHQR but I put a non UHQR album on and I still hear it.  I’m using the basic copper sluggo right now.  I may have to try the graphene sluggo at some point.

Insomnia sent me down a youtube rabbit hole and I came across someone's list of the top N best recorded albums of all time. And in the top 5, along with Steely Dan and Pink Floyd and Alan Parsons was Chick Corea's Mad Hatter. Which is an album I've known for a long time, but it is not in heavy rotation nor did I recall it being particularly well recorded.



On CD

So I gave it a listen. And the sound is excellent, but no better than a bunch of other albums. I did enjoy the music more than in the past, so that's a bonus. But I can't say it will move up in the rotation.