Entertainment

I enjoy listening to music on my stereo, and on my FiiO X7 Mark II high-resolution Digital Audio Player, too. I also listen to contemporary Christian music on KLove, a listener-supported radio station. Links for many of these artists, and many more, can be found at KLove’s Artist Links. With the introduction of satellite radio, I’m now more likely to be listening to the Message, Watercolors, or the Bridge on Sirius/XM while driving, although I typically have my iPhone connected up as well. Over the past few years, i’ve listened to a “stereo” less and less, and more digital sources such as the iTunes library on my Macintosh and iOS devices. in the past few years, I began to explore high-resolution audio and audiophile headphones in lieu of listening to my stereo with large speakers. I’ve also recently upgraded to a better balanced headphone amplifier/DAC. I have upgraded my DAC as well, and switched from using iTunes on the Mac to a more sophisticated music library manager called “Roon” from Roon Labs. It organizes and consolidates music from multiple sources in a variety of formats, including high resolution. It also integrates with high resoultion streaming services like Tidal and Qobuz. I’m running Roon on my iMac, connected to a Schiit Gungnir Multibit DAC through a USB cable. It’s balanced outputs feed a Schiit Jotunheim balanced headphone amplifier, which drive either a pair of JBL LSR305 powered studio monitors, or a pair of modified Drop Sennheiser HD6xx headphones. Below is a list, not especially in any order, of