Ditto sir, ditto. We old, worldly, sophisticated, catholic (lower-case c) curmudgeons of the world have a key civilizational role to play, after all!
So many tunes to listen to and share, so much bourbon and whiskey to taste and compare, so much wood to work and enjoy, so much Schiit to use, so many tubes to glow and snuggle down with, so much cardboard…
Wait, WUT? Cardboard??? Ok, that’s it, we’re officially nuts. Oh, right, we’re all (in some cases, ex-) engineer types; comes with the territory.
Wifey thought JATPS was a tad “bright/shrill” on a couple of the high and very loudest notes. She may (or may not) be right. I just turned down the volume 2 notches (Graunches?) and all was good. She really doesn’t like me playing much beyond 75-78dB unfortunately. I didn’t hear it, but she’s very sensitive to “loud”
My headshell weights and other bits to finalize installation/tuning of my new Hana SL arrive today; then on to getting it fully dialed in. I got it close initially, 2 point Baerwald, and initial balance/anti-skate; the thing is so light… can’t get to ideal compliance, or anti-skate until get more weight on the headshell end of things. Currently tizzy, quite certain VTA needs adjusting (rear down a tad I think).
Then can do a proper analog versus digital and see if Yggy is indeed… “The one”. There is just a certain something that makes the music come alive and transports me to the event (like with good LPs) as never before in my system. Apogees are incredible in the life-likeness of their treble: air, body, extension, “bloom” (the good kind), and it was this entire region that always - before and IMH - sucked with digital. If there’s “bad treble” in the music or chain anywhere before them, it’ll be obvious.
Last hearing test (4 years ago), I was good to 14.5kHz in both ears, which while not great, is better than I could have expected at my age.