Hey, no apologies necessary! I came to the site to hear about others' opinions and experiences. Also, we are veering into a subject I developed a sneaking suspicion around, but haven't had the opportunity to discuss, before.
I first started hitting audio stores selling $1000+ equipment back in the late 1990's. At that time, the solid state power war was still in full force (China and Russia weren't yet selling off their stock of Cold War tubes, and America just didn't make them, much. I remember the surge in tubes first hitting guitar players a few years later....but that's another story.)
Anyway, the latest innovation of the day was in high fidelity, super-fast and stiff non-paper cones. My subjective experience was that I greatly admired the precsion, but also experienced heart breaking ear fatigue in proportion. The more I heard of the first, the more I typically got of the second. Those effects were wholly absent from the Magnepan and B&W approaches.
So here I am with a 1990's Classe DR-15 amp, and I am wondering....
Do you fella's find much truth in matching the age of amps to the age of the speakers? It's been around fifteen years that tube amps have been the rage. Other than a notable step up in sensitivity (I'm seeing a lot of 94+ dB from manufacturers who made nothing higher than 90, back in the 90's), how much do you think the amp trend has altered style of speaker timbre?
Should old amps get old speakers, do you think?
Kind regards.......