Mind games ???

[_Scotty_]

The accommodation effect is one reason I like single blind tests where a subtle difference between DUTs may exist. I also prefer an A-B-A format. I will confess that most of the time I don't chase subtle improvements, I like to catch bigger fish. The HOLY CRAP! moment is what I look forward to when listening to new gear or new music. If you wonder if you heard an improvement is it really worth the effort. For my self, life is too short to obsess about the little things.
Scotty

[rollo]

Bill,
Rather than ask permission to post any further replies to your original E-mail, why don't you give them a link to this thread and encourage them to register with AN themselves and get involved in this discussion first hand.

Tom

Excellent suggestion. Good topic BTW. For me the sound we grew up with was tubed. My Dad was not an audiophile but sold TVs and stereos back in the 50s and 60s. We had several tubed consoles. Listenmed to a lot of Sinatra, Count Basie and such. The sound was rich warm and dynamic. never thin or bright. So that was my reference growing up.
   Many years later when I got in to this hobby by accident the sound I heardthat day at Stereo Exchange brought back found memories and that cozy feeling. The demo consisted of Apogee speakers and Counterpoint gear. A TT was used a Linn LP12 which I still have. We listened to some SS gear which did not float my boat at the time.
  I guess I'm a tube man because that was my first experience in sound as a kid. Both SS and tubes have come a long way since my first audition in the 70s. Today either format gives me goosebumps. Go figure.


charles

[_Scotty_]

My first exposure to the sound of music played on a home stereo started when my father purchased Sears Silvertone tube gear. He purchased an integrated amplfier with a ceramic phonostage and Stereo tuner with the tuning eye. He also built his own loudspeakers using Sears Silvertone drivers. My dad was heavily into classical music and I went to sleep many nights to the sound of classical music playing in the living room.
The sound of tube gear was not considered separately from the music itself,it was 1962 and tubes were the technology of the day. It was my exposure to the sound of live music in elementary school and high school and later as a music major in college that help form my expectations from reproduced music.  I wanted to recreate the sound of real instruments and people in my living room. For me the technology employed is not important it is the end result that I am interested in. As a point of fact I don't really want my equipment making editorial comments to the music. Right now I am using custom SS gear for my preamp and power amp as it is the most cost effective means to an end that I can employ.
Scotty

[StereoNut]

Bill,
Rather than ask permission to post any further replies to your original E-mail, why don't you give them a link to this thread and encourage them to register with AN themselves and get involved in this discussion first hand.

Tom

Consider it done.  I have e-mailed the link to AN to both Paul and Greg, so they can join up and join in.  Great idea!

Thanx!
Bill