mark58 wrote on 11/14/15 at 00:46:22:Lon, no doubt you've got the "Vinyl" sound with the PS Audio Combo. When I got back into Hi Fi a couple years ago I already had thousands of CDs and LPs...many/most I have yet to listen to. So I'm actually wed to both formats. I originally intended to only buy reissues on Vinyl that weren't easily obtained as originals. I started my love affair with 50's and 60's jazz after I'd stopped buying vinyl in the late 80's early 90's so I had it all on CD. Anyway, as you can tell any plan to limit my Vinyl reissues went out the window rather quickly.
It's all about the Music...we all get there differently. I'm pretty much "there" now and think rolling tubes in the ZP3 and input tubes in the CSP3 and my Zen Signature Monoblocks will satiate my desire to tinker. I do want one more pair of the Voodoo Evolution interconnects to use when I play the Jolida 100 or Denon 100 A in the Cave. Over the last several weeks I bought about a half dozen Zu Audio Mission Power Cords so I've got upgraded power cords every where except on the omega Sub...so I'll buy one more when it pops up.
This Yes album sounds amazing...
The Wilson remix of the Yes Album sounds amazing on hi-res and cd!
I love vinyl but it comprises about ten percent of my listening. The big thing that moved me away from vinyl is that so little of what I want to hear is available easily, much not at all. That was what drew me in to cd collecting, and my appetite has become voracious, I love to experience new listening and so much is available on cd! Live recordings, alternate tracks, sessions never released on lp in the past and not released in the present, new looks at old material, I just am amazed at how much is out there. I can listen to an album a few times and have an aural memory of it, and then move on to revisit the first in due time. . . My friend Dave says "How is there any room left up there?" I don't know how but there is and I need to feed it more. So many genres: classical, Brazilian, blues, jazz, rock, soul. . . I can't diet on recordings, I've tried. When I can get cds for a dollar or less in big boxes etc. paying for audiophile vinyl is just flat out of the question for me.
And I'm now entering my third decade of having tube amps as my only listening amps. I've tired of seeking out tubes to try and paying high dollar for rare things that some guy on a website describes like it's a vintage wine. I've actually tried to find new production tubes that are excellent because then I can get them at low cost and with little effort. Rolling tubes was fun years ago. . . and has become progressively less so. I'm also now not trying to find "the perfect sound" which fleetingly slips away recording to recording but rather an overall great sound that serves almost anything I throw at it well. This is not the usual audiophile goal and I've been sort of trail-blazing it on my own and finally after a decade or so seeing some real results.
Anyway, we love music, and you and I love a good chunk of the same music, so I love the companionship we have on the road of our listening life. Thanks for all your contributions on and off the board.
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