My garage system is Bottlehead SETs, Bottlehead pre and phono pre, AH! cd, Thorens TT and Madisound BK-16s with Mirage sub. So it’s a "kick butt" little tube system. What interconnects I use make little audible difference so I use sub $200 IC’s. In the house there is a Very Nice tube/SS system that, with those same interconnects, is a real price/performance disaster that only just competes with the SET gear. But with its current combination of Nordost Valhalla 2, Tyr 2 and Frey 2, it soundly (ha!) spanks the SET gear from the first note.
I eventually learned to be wary of logic/physics based assumptions in audio, keep an open mind and go with what works. After all, it’s physics now saying that, at the quantum level, the property of matter changes when it knows you are looking at it. Swear by the Almighty, look this one up. Maybe physics changes when it knows it’s being listened to as well.
I eventually learned to be wary of logic/physics based assumptions in audio, keep an open mind and go with what works. After all, it’s physics now saying that, at the quantum level, the property of matter changes when it knows you are looking at it. Swear by the Almighty, look this one up. Maybe physics changes when it knows it’s being listened to as well.