I’m thinking (and rambling) more about this.
In the ‘70s when Solid State objectively passed the capabilities of tube amplification, tubes were dead. A few decades later these heavy, hot, high-maintenance devices became fashionable but it was proven that the pleasant distortion that tube amps produced could be produced by carefully designed solid-state (the Bob Carver Challenge), but they live on.
Later, in the ‘80s Phillips had developed the CD format, which was more accurate than all but the most expensive and finicky turntable and LPs with far less expense and maintenance, I felt that vinyl was dead, I stashed my faithful R2R never to be taken seriously again, it too was obsolete.
Today people pay a premium for tube audio, and for LPs aka: vinyl, and even some analog tape formats are seeing some popularity again. All of this ignoring the fact that almost all music processed, recorded, remastered, broadcast or otherwise made available today is processed at least a few times through A/D-D/A conversion and very little is actually truly analog (including most new vinyl pressings).
My father’s home audio consists of TVs with soundbars.
It’s not about the specs entirely, just love what you love and don’t worry about “educating” the rest of us or shaming us for our choices. You might spend your money on a loaded Silverado and I on a Macan or a Tesla, it’s all good and we’re all happy.
In the ‘70s when Solid State objectively passed the capabilities of tube amplification, tubes were dead. A few decades later these heavy, hot, high-maintenance devices became fashionable but it was proven that the pleasant distortion that tube amps produced could be produced by carefully designed solid-state (the Bob Carver Challenge), but they live on.
Later, in the ‘80s Phillips had developed the CD format, which was more accurate than all but the most expensive and finicky turntable and LPs with far less expense and maintenance, I felt that vinyl was dead, I stashed my faithful R2R never to be taken seriously again, it too was obsolete.
Today people pay a premium for tube audio, and for LPs aka: vinyl, and even some analog tape formats are seeing some popularity again. All of this ignoring the fact that almost all music processed, recorded, remastered, broadcast or otherwise made available today is processed at least a few times through A/D-D/A conversion and very little is actually truly analog (including most new vinyl pressings).
My father’s home audio consists of TVs with soundbars.
It’s not about the specs entirely, just love what you love and don’t worry about “educating” the rest of us or shaming us for our choices. You might spend your money on a loaded Silverado and I on a Macan or a Tesla, it’s all good and we’re all happy.
