@skyscraper Good Luck with your investigations into the options to experience new equipment within your system.
From your posts I sense you are a individual who has a background of thoroughly enjoying your encounters with music through the methods that you have chosen to participate in it. Maybe a Live Music Experience or a bit of R&R in front of the Home System.
Myself today, I share in the above history and even more crazily I treasure the moments sitting with my wife listening to her Alexia and her calling music up from our past, this as an activity that can be at certain times the bulk of my music encounters along with the Vehicles Radio.
Enjoying music and enjoying Hi Fidelity can easily become parallel universes.
There is another side to building a HiFi System that can create a side line interest, the interest is one that develops in not too many, and the development can quite easily manifest in some as an obsessional behaviour where the individual can become very insular and lose sight of the enjoying the music, it is all analysis, analysis, analysis.
My own history has been to go over the cliff with the obsession overloading the mind, but I have for many years walked free from it.
Wearing the weight of obsession, takes myself too far from the term for an Audiophile that I will happily label myself with, ’being an individual that has a healthy want to enjoy music’.
While reading through your thread, I sense you have not developed an obsession with equipment, and the interest arose to build up a little more understanding about working with an Interface within your Vinyl Replay Set Up, which was met with descriptions that were new and proving to be a further stimulation to your present interest.
I think it is safe to suggest we are very similar in our approaches to our own systems, even though the experiences encountered are in a different quantity between us.
A large proportion of my time in the recent past has been working with the interfaces that are present within the system.
Mounting Methods, for the Overall Systems Devices and Mounting Methods for singular devices such as a Chassis to a Plinth Material and a Tonearm to a Plinth Material or Tonearm Base Material, add to that Head Shell Materials and Platter Mat Materials.
There is a lot of Pro’s and Con’s to be discovered when trying out materials and devices within a system, but as described previously, there are differences that can be detected and some are preferred to to be kept, but I do not believe any one makes the music less enjoyable.
Putting this into context, I have an LP I have owned for nearly 40 Years, the first time I listened to this Album was using a TT that was worth very little money, and was all things a TT should not really be, but I loved every minute of the replays and have kept the LP close.
When listening to the LP throughout the years and today on a equipment totally correct for the replay of a LP, the enjoyment factor of listening to the LP has never increased, the change is, the satisfaction with the equipment being used, this has increased substantially.
The other side to interfaces is the Electrical side of the equation, Power, Phono RCA and Speaker Cable Types. Cable Plugs and Tube Rolling.
These are all able to participated in with a minimal user input, and can be achieved through a frugal or substantial outlay or even loaned for the items to be tried, and through all the above experiences being encountered the need has not arose to change owned Electronic equipment used in the system for many years.
I do have a social outlet as well, and I do get great pleasure out of introducing others to some of the items I have acquired that I feel has been able to make a impression, or not.
It is quite interesting to discover a ’or not’ for one system can be a most attractive when used in a new system and new environment.
I am sure your ongoing investigation will be fruitful and will bring you into the company of others that understand your intentions, and share with you encouragement.
To add further curiosity to your interest, I have PM’d you a link to a Web Site that might prove to be an enjoyable read.
