Changing audio beliefs

@stuartk ,

Sorry to hear injury kept you from one of your life's joys. You never know when life is gonna throw a banana peel in front of you. It's good you found another creative outlet. I think Voltaire said : "Poetry as the music of the soul."

I used to believe that a flat frequency response was the Holy Grail. I now include power response in the mix.

Low Eddy Connectors are used both on Chassis and Cable Ends.

PC Triple C Wire

Cabinet Speaker has become a permanent replacement speaker, superseding a few decades of use of ESL speakers. 

Valve DAC - Phonostage - Pre Amp - Power Amp System is becoming very challenged by a newly produced SS Phonostage (SS DAC Purchased) - SS Pre Amp - SS Power Amp System (Loaned Model and another Model currently in early stages of a commission build).

I used to believe I had to have big heavy separate components with big heavy 3-way tower speakers and all kinds of big fat audiophile signal and power cables to be content with my system. Nope. I became more pragmatic as I aged and realized how this industry and hobby works.

Now I have an integrated amp with single driver bookshelf speakers and stock power cords and Belden speaker cables. Sounds good enough to me. In time I will replace the separate DAC with an option board for my integrated. Rock on!