Sparks

It has been awhile. Maybe about 3-4 years ago when i abandoned serious hifi and went the ipod way.not exactly fully stopped listening to CDs and stereo. I still kept an budget stereo system, a decent home theater setup and stil play vinyl from time to time. Maybe i didnt do a lot of serious listening and tweaking with all those jazz and vocal records playing over and over again. I did stopped caring what the sound of Cables were and ...aha ..no more tubes!

Okay maybe a short history then ..a very short one. many years ago..i had an ST-70..thats a vintage Dynaco ST-70 series one ..made in the 50s or 60s from the US and was a sweet sounding chunk of metal that spits magical voices and shiny notes amidst amber glows of hot vacuum tubes. Its a Vacuum Tube AMP for short. Well that started a whole chain of upgrades and spending spree. a thirst for high quality music listening culminating with sevral sets of systems among them a Conrad Johnson pre and power amp combo, a Musical Fidelity sysmte of A series Pre and Power Amp, CD Player and Tuner..and even their own Kelly K-2 floorstanders. Whoah those were good old days. Hmmm wish i had a picture of them i can look at now.okay. enough of the nostalgia and go back to the present hehe.

Im am back and hopefully wiser this time around. I once again aim to build something I can listento for hours non stop enjoying music that spans decades of my existence.
But this time ..i should have some guiding principles to live by and some parameters to work on (like budget and space..maybe time too).

So here goes ..its a new start. (actually I started already so Im just backtracking and trying to document wat i did already.