Last night the Music took over….


I woke up this morning a little hungover, not from wine but from the lingering spell of last night’s listening session. Nicki Parrott’s voice was still in my head, smoky and rich, wrapped in the warmth of Black Coffee album on vinyl.

You may or may not be a fan of hers, and that’s okay because this post isn’t just about singing praises for her impeccable storytelling. It’s about those moments we all chase… the ones when your system disappears, and the music breathes with such life and intimacy, it feels like the artist is right there with you.

Last night, my system was at its absolute peak. Everything clicked. The performance was spellbinding, her tone so warm, her phrasing so present, it made me pause and ask myself:

Have I finally reached the point where I can stop tweaking… and just enjoy the music?

So I’m curious…have you had one of those nights where the gear disappears, and the music just becomes the room?

What was playing? 

I’d love to hear about those moments that made you forget the tweaks, the specs, and the chase… and just feel! 

lalitk

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@lalitk I've been following your moving along the road to have an Analogue Source discovered that is totally in keeping with your preference for an end sound being produced.

It now seems there is a synergy to be found somewhere within the devices selected for the overall audio system, that delivers to more than the sum of the parts.

Using my own experiences of my own system and the reactions of others who are able to be a listener to it, there is certainly something occurring that is more than the sum of the Parts, and one comment regularly made and inquiry raised, is about the Speakers Coupling to the Room, it seems the immersion in sound is one of the factors that creates the positive responses.

Recently I made a radical change and set aside the usage of the usual Power Amp's and Speakers and brought in New To Myself and others to hear them devices.

A SET 300b Amp' and Dual Concentric Speakers produced as a TL Design are now taking on the Downstream Role of Power Sent to Speaker and the Production of Sound. 

I have a new end sound and one that is extremely convincing of its qualities.

I have never Tube Rolled Power Tubes in my time of owning Tube Power Amp's which extends back to approx' 30 Years and the early to mid 90's.

I am now already going through the early stages of Tube Rolling 300b's l really am keen to learn what is available from the SET Amp'.

The really Good News is all connected to the System Upstream during the use of the SET Amp' and DCTL Speakers have delivered to the same impressive standard that they are known for.

At these early stages, the DCTL Speakers as they are at present setup in the listening space are invisible, the Source of produced sound is not detectable. These Speakers are Coupled to the Room as well as the ESL's and other Cabinet  Design Speakers used with the System. Where they really standout is in being able to produce a sound that is 'standout' for the Growl / Rasp in a Voice and the Timbre of the Voices. I'm sure more revelations are to come in relation to how voices are produced as a sound.

The New Toys are proving themselves quite capable. The system remains disappeared and the listener is immersed in sound, even though a formed sound quite discernible for its properties to what the other Speakers are producing.   

 

When it comes to the 300b Amp', I have created 30 Years later in life a very keen interest is a design I have side lined in the Past.

In the late 80's and into the 90's I was attending London Based Audio Shows and Audio Equipment Dealerships where I would suggest there were not many Models produced from a Commercial Aspect that I did not sit in front off for an Audition.

At the time of my first Valve Power Amp commission build, I had the option of a 300b to be produced, but my experiences had not left anything that was to compel me to go down this route. My choices have always been for a PP Design using different Power Valve choices.

Times do change, I was devout to the Trilogy that makes a Analogue Source throughout the 80's when digital Sources arrived and continued with a Analogue Source only until only a few years past.

After a period with a Digital Source, the outcome is in today's System, the Digital and Analogue Source share Parity as a End Sound Producer, even the notion of having a Steamer as a Source is now on the Radar, but the Old Ways remain Strong.

The disciplines developed for using Analogue still remains with a strong influence, where there is the need to give the Stylus the best interface within the Groove Possible and have at hand electronics with the sole purpose of processing the sent Signal created by the Stylus to be the very best I can comfortably afford to put in place.

Now in the present, I am quite excited about the New Form of Sound being created as the most recent listening experiences, that are being produced through the use of a SET 300b and Speakers with a 96dB Woofer and 106dB Tweeter Designed to function as a Dual Concentric Assembly.