Thank you very much for sharing this awesome search!

I'm pretty new in jazz and I use Wikipedia and the The Penguin Guide to Jazz (latest version, not the older ones) to find "new" artistes to listen with a streaming service.   When I like it, I buy the CDs, if possible in a box set because I like to have a more global look at the career and...

Quote:   The Qobuz streaming service has a losless quality subscription and it's the only one I know.

No problem with a cheaper option. I liked my Shure SRH1440 until I started to listen to jazz. I found them a little too distant and polite. I bought a pair of Grado SR225i and since then it's true love!   So much that I'm gonna buy a RS1i pair very soon!  

Miles Davis - "Kind of Blue" is on the SimCity 3000 soundtrack and it's a good start for a jazz discovery.

A friend told me: "The instrument separation is too good and I can hear too much details, I just can't concentrate my attention on the music" when hearing my Shure SRH840.  He used to listen music...through his MacBook's speakers! I sold him these few weeks later.

If you are on a Mac, try "alt" whent deleting the file. In this case, you have the choice to delete the file AND the version that is "on the cloud".

The K55 "Kopfhörer Testcenter" is the only place I know with such a large choice you can listen and try. But if you're looking for an audio shop in Geneva, take a look at this list of "Grado dealers". These are real audio shops with many other brands of audio gear.

I am on Mac OS and use "Audirvana+" to put and read FLAC files in my iTunes library. It works pretty well and can convert files in ALAC so you can read them in itunes with or without the software. The problem is that this solution is not free (74$), but this is not the only feature of this software.

I find "Revolver" from the Beatles very trippy. The sitar makes me feel like time distorts and I'm floating in the room...

I buy and rip CDs myself and sometimes download files from "qobuz.com", even in their "Studio Master" quality.   Never tried a vinyl rip...

Quote:   I really like to read the context and listen to the works of an artist/band in a chronological order. But thank you, I'll keep this in mind and try to get it in better quality!

Beatles for me, but I have to confess a serious lack of knowledge about Pink Floyd! Maybe my next "music monster" I'll have a serious look at...

First time I've been listening to a sitar album. Great experience!    Kushal Das - North India: Kushal Das - Sitar

This time it's us europeans, that are sad! This was a great pleasure to watch our teams in Switzerland with NHL players, but it's over now!