The CD player specifically is a vintage NAD and of the hdcd variety with 24 bit decoding, more on that in a minute. It's mostly vintage equipment but it's really good vintage equipment. UPDATE***.So having a weekend off, the spouse is home and the kiddo is having a nap I got the rare opportunity to take this disc down to the listening room. Packaged well in jewel case with lengthy booklet both discs are secure. Like the genre/artist or not this album was produced expertly. A long way from top 40 this album is a great way to drown out the sound from ever present cartoons my boy must have playing every waking moment just a handful of feet away. The fiddle floats about almost playfully. Cymbals crash with authority and sizzle, the drums especially the bass drum come forth without being overpowering or compressed. The myriad of other instrument sound well placed and mic'd and the musicians as expert as Bonamassa himself. His vintage acoustic guitars ring as the should without echo. Even over the usb dac I can get a sense of the room, the size and space of it, the amount of wood, acoustic treatment. After that I go back to the beginning and listen to the whole thing. Went straight for "Sloe Gin" before listening to the entirety of the album as I am very familiar with this tune as it's my favorite Bonamassa tune to date followed by "Ball Peen Hammer" as that is fav number 2. My dac is better than average and my amplification and headphones are better than that. I generally prefer listening on my hifi but with my three year old underfoot I don't have the time to disappear into the listening room. I ripped this double disc to flac to enjoy over headphones. It was the labor day weekend so it was a long wait. Having recently bought and consumed several of his albums, and having a consuming penchant for acoustic concerts recorded well in legendarily wonderful sounding venues I snatched this one up. He loves to play his guitar, he writes songs that connect, he records them and puts them out to the masses for acclaim or ridicule. This man is quite simply a guitar nerd, albeit one with tremendous talent and developed skill. Any panel of expert/celebrity judges on any one of many many show dedicated to finding the next big egotist pop star. Watch a youtube video of an interview with this guy and you will find he is not one of the many egotist rockers populating modern music. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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