Article: Meet The Audiophile Style Community | Volume 5

[Currawong]

17 hours ago, Superdad said:

@Currawong: Great to finally put a face to a name I have known and read for years!

I do know your first name but won't use it unless you say it is okay. But I thought you lived in Australia. Did you move from there to Japan? How long aga?

Did not know about your YouTube channel, so thanks for that link @The Computer Audiophile.

--Alex C.

 

 

 

Hi Alex. My name is public, so no problem there.  I moved to Fukuoka in 2006 after my work fell apart and I was tired of living in Sydney. I started up doing Youtube at a friend's suggestion. In hindsight, I realise I might have made a good radio or TV announcer.

 

11 hours ago, miguelito said:

Hi @Currawong! Thank you for the interview. 

 

You mentioned you listen to Radio Paradise, rate what you listen, then transfer the ratings to TIDAL and Qobuz via Soundiiz. I use Soundiiz to match libraries, playlists, etc, but didn't know it could transfer ratings... Can you explain in more detail please? Thx!

 

Computer skills! I did this a while back using their old web site (which may not still exist). I downloaded the table of tracks, re-formatted it into M3U, then uploaded it to Soundiiz. I did ask them if they could create a means to download your favourites, and they said they would, but I haven't checked back to see if they have done it.

 

2 hours ago, djoman said:

did you hear RAAL rs1a and how do compare to the focal utopia or stax SR009S

 

I need to borrow a set to compare. I couldn't do it side-by-side so I can't really give an answer.

[Currawong]

7 hours ago, miguelito said:

Ok so I presume you created a playlist on TIDAL and/or Qobuz and then rated all songs on that playlist. My question was more along the lines Soundiiz being able to transfer likes only.

 

I didn't rate anything in TIDAL or Qobuz. I took the list of tracks I'd rated 7 or higher on Radio Paradise and re-formatted that into an M2U file I could import into Soundiiz.  I made a number of playlists, such as just tracks that are rated 10, or just those rated 9, or 8. This because even though some tracks, such as various Pink Floyd, that are rated 10, are not necessarily ones I want to listen to regularly when listening to a random selection. 

[Currawong]

I'm a bit wary of asking to borrow more Chord gear. Firstly because it is borrowed from the Japanese distributor, a lovely lady who doesn't gain anything from me reviewing it in English, and second because I'll want to keep them.  I borrowed a DAVE once, and that, direct to headphones, was like having music injected into my blood. I need a new car before I need a DAVE, so....

[Currawong]

1 minute ago, w1000i said:

Can you speech Japanese ? why not a review in Japanese

 

I'd have to script reviews if I did that, which would take me forever. I don't know how audiophiles describe things in Japanese either, so I have no idea if I'd sound like an idiot or not. I also don't understand what people are on about in online conversation if they are using colloquial terms, so responding to comments would be difficult.

[Currawong]

No. I haven't heard the TT2. 

[Currawong]

It's rather scary the amount of gear that doesn't get requested to be returned.  For the portable electronics, I've had to buy extra chargers to keep everything topped up so I can pull out anything at any time and test and compare.

 

A funny story: I found my wife and daughter one day checking out cheap, portable mp3 players on Amazon, so I asked them what they were doing. My wife said that my daughter wanted something to listen to music with. I replied "Have you seen the top of my desk at all?!?"