Jazz for aficionados

@fire_water 

I'm afraid I can make no helpful suggestions regarding the streaming phenomena you describe. 

I'm glad to know you're enjoying Jazz music, though! . 

We can't all be as lucky as @tyray  and live in a locale where we have easy access to live Jazz.  From roughly 2000 - 2010, we used to drive over to Oakland to catch shows at Yoshi's, which was one of the best venues in the country for Jazz but eventually they largely dropped Jazz and began hiring acts from other genres. This is somewhat of a moot point for me, now, however. Having just turned 70, my appetite for dealing with the increasingly insane Bay Area traffic has greatly diminished. 

@stuartk, trust me, I don’t go to jazz shows or jazz concerts for that matter anywhere near like I used to either, as I’m also older. I may sometimes go to a neighborhood bar and check out a local yocal live band and get a bite to eat. 

@fire_water, you’ve got one extremely serious badass system. I’m sure you’ll be able figure it out. 

@tyray thank you.  Yes, I have an Accuphase C2300 preamplifier that feeds an Accuphase A-48S Class-A amplifier.  I also have an Accuphase DC-37 Processor/DAC and an Innuos Pulsar Streamer (don't let this discrete silver box fool you,  it's a hidden gem). And I have Klipsch LaScala AL5 speakers which make all this jazz come to life.  

I know what you mean about getting old but the key is to stay healthy and active. I'm a firefighter with Toronto and an architect by trade. I don't nearly design or build as much as I used to as firefighting at my age wears you down.  I just finished two 24 hour overtime shifts back to back (with I day off in-between) so now I'm in my man cave relaxing to some ambient music - will change it up with some of my jazz favorites shortly. It was a very long and cold winter with a lot of snow but it's so nice to finally look out these tall windows that flank my Accuphase components and look at my landscaping that I completed last summer. When I say keep active I mean it! I did all this landscaping with a shovel and wheelbarrow. Yes I moved and dug everything by hand as I felt guilty using a Skid Steer loader. I even shovel the snow with a shove for this reasonl lol.

I know this is off topic, but for me,  when work is all done I look forward to listening to my music and my room was built for this reason.  No the room isn't acoustically accurate but there is something profoundly restorative about balancing the technical pursuit of high-fidelity sound with a space that feeds the soul. 

*I'll post photos of the exterior of my music den so you know what I mean

@tyray I just added the exterior pics.  This is how the room evolved as it did. 

Hah! Interesting! I'm a structural draftsman (you red line my work), and have been a big fan of anything Accuphase, Innuos music streamers and Klipsch LaScala speakers for years.

You gotta tell me what interconnects you use? And it's ok, no worries about going off topic cause this is Audiogon and we're, I'm always looking for ways to improve my rig.

About music streamers, I look at them as akin to turntables, but 2nd, 3rd or 4th digital iterations. I think that's why they are called transports also.