Marian Hill

I blame John. My audio friend in North Carolina—the same guy who sold me the Dennis Had Inspire IFA-1 and loaned me the Decware Zen Triode—is a man of persuasive enthusiasms. He doesn’t sell; he just describes what he hears until you understand that you have no choice. His pitch for the Alan Eaton 45 monoblocks was characteristically direct: “I would buy another pair very quickly. He’s been making amps for a while …

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When 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 …

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