Yes. I’d recommend always buying the most expensive tubes you can. If you spend 1000 dollars per tube you will be able to finally hear the musician’s heartbeats when they were recording your favorite tunes.

It’s just electronics. It’s on or it’s off. That’s it.

Every so often a rich guy has an epiphany on here and it’s a beautiful thing.

Time to teach yourself the trumpet, my friend.

Rich dudes here love to tell you that you can’t have speakers until you’re a millionaire and own property. But it’s just not reasonable for a lot of us. Pull your stuff out from the wall. Possibly put the speakers on another wall if you can. I’ve been in your shoes. It’s awful to invest so much and have people be so opposed to you enjoying it at all.

Play your stuff low volume for the most part. But try to accommodate and enjoy yourself.

The reason actives die over time is usually capacitors leaking or blowing up eventually after aging for 20+ years. Or solder joints cracking in cheaper shit.

It honestly probably won’t hurt them to run them 24/7 for 20 years Vs only running them a few hours a day for 20 years. Unless they’re hot. Otherwise you’re probably fine.

I worked in broadcast for a long time and we had ancient analog gear that ran 24/7 for YEARS and was totally fine. Until it wasn’t ha!

Make yourself yawn really big my guy. Get those ears popped a lil bit.

On the bright side, if you really squint your ears you still might be able to eek a tiny scrap of enjoyment out of a really really good song presented in a totally fine bitrate.

This is actually interesting. But this community is probably the most curmudgeonly group of older dudes who are going to be angry that anyone would bother playing Taylor Swift on good speakers.

I did actually listen to the new 1989 on my system the other day. I didn’t notice the upper frequency hum - I think I can still hear 15k - but I wasn’t really paying all that close of attention to the details to be honest.

The worst album I know of for this is Taking Back Sunday’s “Tell All Your Friends” - which has some extremely noticeable high frequency buzzing on one of the vocals mics and they just didn’t notch it out. I’m waiting for the day when I’ve lost so much high end that I can’t hear it anymore lol

Being around truly high end audio gear and the guys buying it is enough to make even the most financially comfortable middle manager into a Communist.