You know what they say? Absence makes the heart grow fonder. I’ll send you my address and we’ll see if your ungrateful satan spawn appreciate your collection more when I’m enjoying it.
Yes, I also do care and feeding on Guitar Amps, my favorite to play in Benson Earhart, Fender 63’ Super, and a Two-rock Classic Reverb. But I do love older Marshals as well. Which is why I am staying solid-state for headphone amps. With Tubes, you fall down rabbit holes.
Benson Earhart, which close to Zmf Pendant in linage which both are derivatives off Vox AC15
In response to the theme of this thread: I’ve been here before. 35 years ago I had a big/bad 2 channel system in my LR (multiple tube amps; large tower speakers w/integrated subs; and a stack of electronics & TT in adjacent room). In those days I’d get a “WTF?” look + eyeroll from people who walked in. My problem was obvious back then, and it fascinated my friends & acquaintences.
But these days all the really good gear is in a small home office which many don’t see. But there are exceptions. A week ago a cousin came over for dinner. I brought him & his wife into the office to look at something on the computer. Their expressions when they saw all the electronics, then slowly realized there are big/bad headphones all over the place…well, it was priceless. I had them listen to the blackwood Aeolus on the V281; they were gobsmacked, had no idea headphones could be that big, beautiful, and good sounding.
We are all blessed, we need to remember that. To be able to interact and share a common love, Music and it interpretation via headphones. I love we geographically dispersed to bring different views and even culture to the thing we love.
