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Message started by JimmyJet on 12/29/15 at 16:21:00

Title: ZSTAGE and "girlfriend analysis"... She nailed it!
Post by JimmyJet on 12/29/15 at 16:21:00

So, my big rig of Decware arrived last week, Torii Mk IV, ZP3 w/ZMC1, and ZSTAGE. Christmas morning the girlfriend and I were spinning some Christmas vinyl while sipping our coffee, and I got up and flipped the "tube operating points" switch on the front of the ZSTAGE back and forth and asked my girlfriend, "how would you describe the difference between these two settings?" I would let her listen for a bit for each setting, then after about two auditionings on each setting, she very firmly popped out with, "well, one setting sounds like the signal is compressed, and the other setting is not compressed and has greater dynamics." :o

If I weren't standing over the "big rig", I would have spit out my coffee, but instead, choked on it and saved my tubes from exploding! At any rate, I explained to her how she nailed it and how impressed I was! (Then she reminded me she had majored in audio production at Berkley back in the 80's - so, okay, a bit of an advantage there, but still impressive because she ended up working outside the music biz and usually doesn't speak so eloquently about my stereo, but the new DecWare gear has her attention... :)

Title: Re: ZSTAGE and "girlfriend analysis"... She nailed it!
Post by Lon on 12/29/15 at 16:34:43

Congrats JJ! Great listening ahead ;)

Title: Re: ZSTAGE and "girlfriend analysis"... She nailed it!
Post by Lonely Raven on 12/30/15 at 19:53:17

She's a keeper!

I need to get my Redhead interested - she really couldn't care less right now.

Title: Re: ZSTAGE and "girlfriend analysis"... She nailed it!
Post by maddog07 on 12/30/15 at 22:02:15

LOL LR... pray she stays that way "uninterested".... the minute significant others become interested and/or start paying attention to our hobby, it usually leads to negative impact, as in "you spent how much $$ on that! - I think you're nucking futs".

Or in the case of my spousal unit of 35 years, it leads to double expenditure, i.e. the grand compromise - I spend $3k on audio - she spends $3k on jewelry.. you now need double the $$ you're going to spend on audio to keep the Mrs. happy...... When momma ain't happy - ain't nobody happy....