What Makes your System Special?

My low ceilings. I've done a lot of work to deal with them and the response curves and listening tests make things sound very good. But, bottom line, 6.5 ft ceilings are major impediments and are the main reason I'll get into a new space when I can.

Musicality….the music flows from note to note more like live music. 

I have been in this hobby since the early 70”s in university.
As I’ve aged and now retired, my tastes in music genres has changed and evolved with age.

With it, I made very recent move to new speakers excelling with an exquisite airiness and best-of-breed mid-range and tight bass for jazz, easy listening, classical, instrumental et al.

Now it’s HARBETH 30.2 XDs that paves my Yellow Brick Road to Audio OZ.

Musicality and system synergy is the key.  By using a Mac amp and preamp, the music just flows.  

What makes it special: tubes.     

I'd like more compact gear to replace the separates, as I age and move towards smaller living spaces, and newer gear, which could be more reliable.  But everything is a trade-off, and an integrated could not equal  the tube amp, preamp and phono pre I have.  Tubes are inherently higher maintenance that ss (but more repairable when things go wrong.)  Contra, modern KT-150 and 170 tubes have the potential to shorten the signal path and reduce phase issues.  You pay when you sell old gear and buy new, so "downsizing" will involve paying a lot of money for lower quality sound.    Can't make myself do that until it's unavoidable.