wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| I listened to a pair of Audio Research Reference 330Ms 90 grand may be a fair price, but does it contain the build quality and substance of a Porsche or my M2? Does it sound better than my Dennis Had SEP masterpiece (2017 one month old for 1100 bucks)? My Pass XA-25? You like these ARC amps?? Buy ’em ... | |
| Time For a CD Player Upgrade I bought a Schiit Bifrost 2/64 and got the upgrade, then noted that I didn’t have anything that could utilize Schiits touted "Nexus" USB input. I then bought one of their URD transports and a proper cable and VOILA (I’ve never used that word in wr... | |
| Fun read... What a load of nonsense...my audiophile hobby over many decades has rewarded me with loads of pure fun, and if, for example, I try out various speakers and don't like some of 'em I send 'em back or sell them off...any cable that doesn't work to m... | |
| Are REL the most Musical Subs? I do own another sub I use in my recording studio. It’s a Mackie HR120 (no longer made) with 500 a/b watts, an EAT pro 12" driver and a 12" passive radiator. Good to a very real 19hz, and many more adjustment possibilities than most home audio sub... | |
| KR Audio KT88 Vacuum Tubes I have a drawer full of tubes, a Dennis Had Firebottle HO power amp and an original Freya preamp...both amps use 6SN7GTB tubes (the Had uses one, the Freya four). Recently I was trying various KTs (and 7581As from Tung Sol) power tubes from the st... | |
| Transparent Audio power cords I use some upscale (older PS Audio, Pangea, Audioquest, fat rubber thing supplied with my Pass amp) but not too extreme AC cables and my system sounds great...the cable supplied with my recently added Audioquest 707 conditioner has a flat plug on ... | |
| YouTube Indicates What the Future is For Audiophiles - Interesting Demographics. The percentage of people in general who are audiophiles is already tiny. Always has been. Sure, people had turntables and receivers back in "the day" as that was kind of all there was...a few had separates but meh...tiny minority. I own vinyl, som... | |
| Are REL the most Musical Subs? I've acquired a few used RELs over the years (costing from 200 to 300 bucks each) using one in my stereo TV rig and two in the hifi heap and they all work as designed. If one dies they were so inexpensive I'd replace it immediately with another RE... | |
| Is Recording quality the real culprit? Conversely, a sub par recording can't kill great music. | |
| Subwoofer Advice I was joking with the "exactly like mine" comment to point out that every listening space is utterly different. Bass is bass, and my suggestion is to get a couple of used RELs (that are returnable perhaps) as the high level input from the power am... | |
| I Sold my CD Player!!! Streaming sounds so incredible!!! I thought old Linda had run out of money...I could be mistaken. Oops. I should have asked her myself but I lost her number. | |
| Subwoofer Advice Bass goes everywhere...it simply cannot be directional by nature, and note that many subs (including a couple of mine) have down facing drivers...you could suspend subs from the ceiling (ha) but if bass gets to your ears, it's getting everywhere e... | |
| Subwoofer Advice If a sub is getting its sound into the room then sound is also getting into the floor. Unless you have no floor. | |
| I Sold my CD Player!!! Streaming sounds so incredible!!! I've been in the music business in some form either as a successful working musician or live sound engineer for decades. Joined the Honolulu Musicians Union the first time in 1968. There are no "big bucks" available to the vast majority of serious... | |
| I Sold my CD Player!!! Streaming sounds so incredible!!! In the real world, working musicians have to market their own CDs (or vinyl) at shows or on sites to justify the cost of those things, and nobody (or nearly nobody) makes much money selling physical product. The value of streaming is to advertise ... |