I use variety of components to listen analytically, relaxful, or getting emotionally overwhelmed by the music: detailed carts, musical wood and stone carts, SPU carts, SS linear neutral, tube midrange magic including flea watt amps like my 300B.
Good old days
I remember when I was happy that everything I played on my stereo sounded basically the same, without a care for soundstagjng and the like. This occurs to me now as I sit in my car enjoying the hell out of everything played. All I’m thinking about is the music. Maybe it’s time for me to pack in my high end aspirations.