wolf_garcia
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| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" I still say the "cover the vinyl with peanut butter and let ants clean it off" method remains the best. Also, brevity...we need more brevity around here... | |
| Mazzy loves Little Feat! In spite of Bonnie being a serious Lowell devotee she actually tossed him out of his producer role on one of her albums when he wanted to play a solo somewhere and she insisted she should play it. Strange but true. | |
| Best EXTERNAL DAC suggestions Schiit Bifrost 2/64 simply because I have one (and it sounds great). | |
| Tube Preamp: How many tubes does it take to ................. I put several tubes in my Pass XA-25...they just roll around in there but it does make me feel better. | |
| Mazzy loves Little Feat! A former Blue Cheer groupie nursed me through a bad acid trip. True. I'm forever grateful. I saw Blue Cheer play in a nice little arena in Honolulu and thought it was sort of insane...3 Marshall stacks each for the bass and guitar resulting in a s... | |
| What speaker could safely be ordered without hearing it first? I don’t trust anybody else’s ears. They’re not attached to my head, and regardless of what any reviewer says in even the most comprehensive of reviews, that guy doesn’t know my room, my tastes, or my experience, and I’ve returned one too many spea... | |
| Mazzy loves Little Feat! Little Feat were not a "jam band" which explains their dynamic shows. George wouldn't participate with the extended synth ("Day or Night" maybe) song as he didn't think it fit...he sang every note pretty much exactly as recorded originally, and hi... | |
| How tall do you like your images? How do you measure "image" height? Your imagination calculator? Height for performing musicians is relative to your distance from the performers, and the height of their sound...well...are musical notes height quantifiable? My system images well e... | |
| SET Lovers, what's the one solid state amp you love(d)? I rotate between a Pass XA-25 and a Dennis Had Inspire Firebottle HO (high output). Both sound amazingly excellent. | |
| Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better? Many reference systems use tubes, and my personal reference system uses both tubes and transistors to produce music that to my ears is more realistic than otherwise, and my house is filled with musical instruments for "reference." There simply is ... | |
| Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better? Tubes look cool...they just do. Also note that you can roll different tubes whenever you feel like changing the taste of things...you gonna roll transistors in in that SS amp? No, you're not. Here's a thing about what old Ralph says about his clas... | |
| Heresy IV vs Zu DW6/Soul mk2 I've had Heresy IIIs (Capitol Records version) for a few years and love the things. I tried a pair of IVs (figuring they would be better) and didn't like them at all although they're really well built...some upper mid frequency anomaly drove me nu... | |
| A Black Box to Solve Everything Who wants their hifi rig to push a 300B to distortion? Hmmm...Pass is into "tube like" sound as illustrated by his XA-25. I have one and it sounds great but not particularly like tubes to my ears...I switch between that amp and a Dennis Had SEP. ... | |
| Why is solid state more popular when tubes are better? Atmasphere manufactures Class D amps to so he's invested in the technology (I haven't heard his Class D mono amps but I imagine they sound fine) so there's that, and although he claims they measure like tube amps, I'm not sold. I switch from an al... | |
| Is simpler better? Simple can be bettered by "better." There's no magic formula, and a simple setup is still actually a lot of parts in a box...is that source really simple or simply less parts? A preamp can ad substance or not depending on its design and how the u... |