How many of us are truly diversified

i don’t ’diversify’ by technology... technology is only a means to an end, what the technology deployed in a piece of audio gear is only of interest on an intellectual level ... it is the result that matters and what i really care about -- how good is the music produced...

i also think ’diversify’ is the wrong word, as it implies an objective of managing risk or downside of some sort - not what we are doing in this pursuit

the proper notion the op may be trying to get at is to simply ’have variety’ -- that i do, like having tube and solid state amplification... once again, only in service to the resulting musical experience it produces

@jjss49 Good for you. I agree it is about the music not the gear.

Variety is the spice of life. I like the word variety but I have no problem with "diversify." There have been times in my life when I have hewed to too narrow a path in all kinds of ways -- eating the same kinds of foods, watching the same kinds of shows, doing the same kind of exercise. "You should diversify," I’ve been advised by friends with different habits when they heard me express boredom. What they were recommending was "variety," but what I needed to do was "diversify." To stick with what I had out of mere stubbornness is called "narrow-mindedness."

OP, it sounds like you have wound up with a variety of kinds of gear, likely producing different sonics. My guess is that you now have a broader understanding of different ways that music can sound -- and the virtues of those different outcomes -- than me and probably many others.

If you were narrow before, now you can call yourself "diversified" because you made an effort to broaden your mindset and experiments.

If you wound up with different gear by chance, you’re not diversified; you just wound up, blessedly, as "experienced."

@hilde45 yes for a long time I was a Type A but as the opportunity came to try other systems and I had the space to do it in I embraced it. Some was purchased used to keep costs down.

Had a couple of units of the D type that did not stick around long though.

It has been fun and I truly enjoy each system and what they bring to my ear.

Best regards

EF.

Have 1 system and its my fave class AB.