what is your opinion ?


Hi everyone, last 18 years I've got hooked up to vintage Tube amplifiers, prior to that I was rather happy with SS muscle amps driven to my Apogee Scintilla and Duetta sig's truly open 3D soundstage Few tube amps was able accept Apogee marriage but not  as good as SS amps, until I ended up bargain priced infamous Altec's voice the theatre speakers not a wife pleaser but luckly I've  got a dedicated music room, never looked back since then ,,WE design 91 , WE46C , RIP Don Garber, even loftin White design SET amps T.Mayer Attilio Caccamo of Tektron some genious Japanese design SET Amps they all have unique presantation complimented by incredable sound of 45, 2A3, VT52,300B, E406N, even modern production Sophia 206 , and many more  ! my question is why these old school design audio sounds nearer to reality ? naturally we are all aware of room acoustics tuning our  rooms etc, etc are we listening equipment or music ? do we really need furniture grade Audio equipment ? or maybe we humans are we trying to re invent the wheel again ?
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@sabih,

"my question is why these old school design audio sounds nearer to reality ?"

"or maybe we humans are we trying to re invent the wheel again ?"


There's no surprise here as many still hold those vintage designs such as your Altecs or Apogee's in high regard. Are they easily beaten by today's designs?
I think not.

I remember once reading an interview where the founder of Naim Audio, Julian Vereker, was asked what system he would listen to, if not his own.

His reply was, a vintage Quad amplifier! 

There does seem to be a lot of 'reinventing the wheel' going on in audio, hence it's all too easy to 'climb' the ladder only to find yourself eventually back near the bottom.

The single biggest improvement I've noticed in over 30 years is the quality of budget speakers. Some of the stuff made by companies like Dayton Audio, Adam, Edifier and Q Acoustics must be light years ahead of budget designs of the 1980s.

This seems to be a heavily competitive area of the market and has no doubt benefited from advances in computer design.

Yes, you are lucky to have a dedicated music room. Glad you're enjoying it.