I have a list of equipment I aspire to.
On it I added an Audio Research piece owned by Arnold Nudell.
I took note of it; after all, it was chosen by the man himself for his personal system.
A few years later I watched a video: Arnold Nudell was touting the new amp by PS Audio, tube input stage, solid state output stage, designed by Bascom King.
He loved it and believed it outdid his Audio Research amp.
A comment he made always stuck in my mind.
I paraphrase: he said, ‘And I was getting tired of spending $1500 every 6 or 9 months on new tubes.’
Then it struck me, a new perspective on audio: there’s the equipment that the owners of multi-million dollar audio corporations own, and then there’s my world.
