I have three:
Reference home system:
Sony SCD-1 SACD, pass labs aleph P & 2 monblocks, quattro-fil & audio physic avanti's, carver tx-11b, arc ph-3, rega 25.
Home office:
Sony XA7ES cd with BAT vk-5i, ARC vt100, quattro-fil & spica tc-60's. Phillips cdR-880 used as d-A and a-d converter from computer which has soundblaster with spdif. Purpose: very occasional use. Mainly a boneyard for that which is not being used right now.
I tend to swap the tube / pass labs stuff in and out of the main system every six months or so. Both sets represent my favorite equipment from either genre. Every time I go to sell one, I listen to it and leave it in ! It used to be that I would sell the solid state or tube stuff, miss it, then go back and buy more. I think I'll always own a set of pass labs solid state equipment. It has a clarity that I haven't heard in any other equipment. It's also nice to have something you can listen to without worrying about tube life.
Work Office:
Sony D-465 battery powered cd w/ Senn 580's & sony SAVA-7 powered surround speakers. IBM Thinkpad T-21 for listening to MP-3's (thinkpad's actually have pretty good headphone outputs!). Small 25 year old GE clock radio.
Guess what ?! I do 51% of my total listening on the small clock radio.
Reference home system:
Sony SCD-1 SACD, pass labs aleph P & 2 monblocks, quattro-fil & audio physic avanti's, carver tx-11b, arc ph-3, rega 25.
Home office:
Sony XA7ES cd with BAT vk-5i, ARC vt100, quattro-fil & spica tc-60's. Phillips cdR-880 used as d-A and a-d converter from computer which has soundblaster with spdif. Purpose: very occasional use. Mainly a boneyard for that which is not being used right now.
I tend to swap the tube / pass labs stuff in and out of the main system every six months or so. Both sets represent my favorite equipment from either genre. Every time I go to sell one, I listen to it and leave it in ! It used to be that I would sell the solid state or tube stuff, miss it, then go back and buy more. I think I'll always own a set of pass labs solid state equipment. It has a clarity that I haven't heard in any other equipment. It's also nice to have something you can listen to without worrying about tube life.
Work Office:
Sony D-465 battery powered cd w/ Senn 580's & sony SAVA-7 powered surround speakers. IBM Thinkpad T-21 for listening to MP-3's (thinkpad's actually have pretty good headphone outputs!). Small 25 year old GE clock radio.
Guess what ?! I do 51% of my total listening on the small clock radio.