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@invalid , I posted one grammy winner, two well known studios (Abbey Road and Sony) and guy that literally wrote the book on speakers (Floyd Toole). It was simply the context that all of these diverse professionals use roughly the same setup (coincidentally as myself and the OP). I never won a Grammy and unless you are Milli Vanilli I can’t imagine it being a bad thing.

@brianlucey breaking down his approach to amps and speakers at 8 minutes into the video. Very interesting Brian, much respect, clearly you have a talent for "tube jockeying" as you call it. You do state that tubes are high maintenance and can be a PIA so IDK if that is a plus or a minus when it comes to going with an active speaker as a preference for consumers.

I have not tried the tube route yet and if you post another video on your atmos setup in that other thread it would be much appreciated. I also saw your NAMM interview on youtube re: the all analog plug in, nice:

 

I get the point. After owning the revel salon 2 and my 250/425 wpc amps couldn't wake those speakers up I sold them and bought a pair of meridian dsp powered speakers. Personally, as somebody that spends a lot of time listening to music and often replaying the same stuff it's nice to be able to swap components just to change the presentation. EQ can change tone but not character. 

@steakster ​​​​@jerryg123 Good spot! In only four posts, this must be a record spotting Cin Dyment entering Audiogon yet another time. However the list is missing a few most recent names. Here is the full list:

crymeanaudioriver

 

theaudiomaniac 

 

theaudioamp

 

deludedaudiophile

 

thynamesinnervoice

 

cindyment

 

snratio

 

yesiamjohn

 

sugabooger

 

dletch2

 

audio2design

 

dannad

 

roberttdid 

 

roberttcan 

 

heaudio123

 

audiozenology

 

atdavid

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Ok I really don't want to be blunt but I will be. As you probably already know I think tube amps, and microphones, sound better more musical and all that just not in a accurate way but in an effect way because of the natural characteristics of the tubes. We both know that tube amps start to degrade from the first moment you put in new tubes, I've have my BHK 300s and BHK Preamp for about 4 years and have spent 1000s on tubes trying to get the super sexy ones that BHK didn't even have in mind when he designed the units (silly). But in a mastering studio you can't have the slow degradation of tubes to evaluate the recording and mixing of other engineers for the master. Doesn't that sort of put up a red flag? Perhaps I'm wrong. Maybe I'm to analytical and not cool enough.