To me this whole tube vs ss, or empirical improvement vs personal change is like saying that a pair of prescription glasses don't work for everybody...well...of course not. We're all trying to have 20/20 vision, and if we have certain things in our systems that cause our room/system/cables/source/malt scotch combo to get one way or the other (nearsighted, farsighted, astigmatic, etc.), then we tend to favor certain remedies or sounds or in this analogy, curved glass prescriptions, to "fix" it or make it seem more natural or neutral. If I had a very warm sounding lower powered SET amp, with farily efficient speakers, I would not likely add more tubes into the signal path, especially at the source (my tubed Transporter mod) or the noise floor, balance and overall dynaimcs of the system would likely suffer. Of ourse, if I'm living in an untreated glass walled room, maybe I need that "distortion" to counteract the damn windows!! One cannot sit here and proclaim something a standardized unequivocal improvement unless one compares it to others in the same system. Yes, a scrathed lp that skips is the exception, but no one would debate that.
I know Dan Wright's Modwright house sound very well, and know my room and current setup very well. I will be astounded if the modded TP is not an improvement to my setup....but I will never say it is to yours, having not heard yours, and having not understood the synergies and limitations you deal with. -- ted_b ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ted_b's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3289 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38106 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
