New Gear, New Ears
Various ArtistsWhen your gear changes, your library changes with it. Not the files — the same ones are still there — but what you hear in them. Over the past few weeks, I’ve rotated through three different amplifiers (the Decware Zen SE84C+, the Dennis Had Inspire, and the just-arrived Alan Eaton 45 monoblocks), and each swap has sent me back to familiar albums looking for what’s new. The result has been one of the more interesting …
Mid-March Playlist
Various ArtistsMy listening session today had another eclectic playlist, ranging from experimental atmospheric soundtracks to ninety’s pop. The Cronus was set to ultralinear mode through the whole session, and while none of the music sounded bad, there were obvious sonic stand-outs, both meh and yeah. I mention this, because my last system, I tended to avoid certain types of music since they sounded flawed. In this system, while it …
