I just got a set of Utopias yesterday. Waiting for my BHK preamp to arrive and use the built in headphone amp but just using my laptop’s headphone amp is still pretty awesome sounding.
Streaming on TIDAL:
@cardri, I am listening via headphones right now, as well. . . .
DS Sr. > Monolith Liquid Platinum headphone amp > Corpse Cable GraveDigger balanced cable > Audeze LCD-MX4 headphones (EQ-ed with the Audeze “Reveal” plug-in).
The holiday period is seriously interfering with my listening. I got about two-thirds way through this and then my Arcam decided to go all moody on me 
Wish I could click like 20 times. The older I get, the more I like Willie Nelson. A perfect sounding record too. This era “on tape” will probably always be the sweet spot of sound for me.
Listening to a X-mass present - -
Nice to be able to easily understand every word of every song with the combination of the 96/24 sample rate and Snowmass v.2.
Boy does that LP cover bring up memories!
The music never stopped!
Got on the bus in 1978.
About when I got off! 
I recognized this cover, too, with interest.
Usually I don’t see a lot of need to cover Monk, but I liked cover versions from EST and Hersch.
Can you tell about your experience with this one lonson?
I’m not a big Hersh or EST Trio fan to be honest, they don’t do much for me, and I haven’t heard their Monk covers.
This arrived this afternoon and I only managed to hear disc 1, twice so far. I like it. Kimbrough is an excellent pianist and he plays very much like Monk here, which surprised me, but also with his own vision and stamp on the “touch” and his own idea of note clusters and dissonance. And Robinson is a horn master I have long enjoyed listening to and he plays many horns here with interesting ideas. So far Reid and Drummond seem to be channeling the ghosts of John Ore and Frankie Dunlop, getting the sound and swing of that section during their tenure with Monk, but with a touch of contemporary feel here and there. There’s a track or two here that you might convince a few persons were actually from a Columbia Monk cd, an alternate perhaps. I think this is going to be an interesting box set.
There’s another Complete Monk cycle out now as well that I’m interested in, done on solo guitar. But so far this is not on disc, only on download files and I don’t do those. If it hits disc (not likely I guess) I’ll grab that.
Thanks much lonson and very interesting also the guitar cycle!
The best part of Snowmass and my new P20 (don’t really know what contributes what - basically did both updates too close) is that recordings like this sound great. Takes any edge off that might otherwise be there. Glorious music.
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Joyful. The organ on St. Louis Blues sounds sooo good! This is why I love this hobby…”I Hear Dead People.”