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 …