wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| Swiss Digital Fuse Box - "What headroom sounds like" I predict that this brevity free "digital fusebox" laden with hyperbole is another remedy for something that isn't a problem...regular little fuses supplied with gear. Like the ever more expensive SR fuses that have had endless testimony here prai... | |
| cheapest speaker made in the last 10 year that can beat any speaker made before 1970? Answering this question requires only two things, to listen to and remember the sound of every speaker made before 1970, and then simply listen to every "cheap" speaker available today...compare... | |
| Integrating speakers into contemporary decor - can WAF ever be overcome? Topics like this always turn into sexist nonsense combined with exposing obvious yet utterly random weaknesses in many relationships. Would a spouse with a loud multiple exotic birds hobby feel slighted if they couldn’t impose this on their live-i... | |
| Subwoofer Baloney...I used one REL Q150 for years and it sounded great, and still use that one now along with a Q108MK2...still...one properly adjusted sub can work beautifully in any room. | |
| Integrated suggestions A friend has one of those gigantic Vincent things that sounds pretty good, and hey...it has tubes! For about what a good integrated costs you can use what I use...the well regarded Schiit Freya, an astonishingly great sounding preamp with 2 balanc... | |
| Why Do Cables Matter? Here's another analogy...without good cable a cable car would plunge to the ground. Also, I have a Pangea cable running from the wall to my conditioner (and a few other "fancy" cables here and there because I do want to be as "audio hip" as possib... | |
| Level adjusting speaker drivers I own a couple of Lokis (they're amazingly inexpensive relative to how excellent they are)...one for my video rig and another for the headphone amp in my hifi rig which I sometimes put in the main system if something seems to need EQ. An EQ is use... | |
| How rare is an audiophile Ah yes...the old days of sexism and misogyny...spoken here by Real Men who seemingly don't know any women and don't have daughters...yeah...those were the days! Put on your bowler hat and go to the club...and, by the way, enjoying music through a ... | |
| How rare is an audiophile I'm not into rare audiophiles as I prefer them well done. | |
| Don't sell your tube amps I dragged JBL festooned Twins around (anvil case included, insanely heavy) for most of the 70s, and use small all tube amps exclusively now, including a brilliant little 5/15 watt Reverend Goblin I recently loaned to John Pizzarelli for a live sho... | |
| Don't sell your tube amps As a long time pro guitarist I can say for certain that class D will not be replacing tube guitar amps for those who care about tone. I've tried various modeling amps and others including those with tube front ends, and the necessary distortion ch... | |
| Is there a ceiling limit on what you are willing to pay for an audio component? I can afford whatever I want...and what I want is what I have, and none of it is "self indulgent" expensive because I prefer things that sound good to me, and don't care what reviewers or pretty much anyone else thinks about it unless I agree with... | |
| Mobile Fidelity Settlement Update I think compensation for exposure to endless articles with apologies, whining, nonsense, blathering, and otherwise lame baloney is due to us all. I mean everybody...8 billion people... | |
| Don't sell your tube amps Obviously there are many solid state amps that do a great job as Atmasphere pointed out, and many (including my Pass XA-25) are "tube like" in their design and some are Class A room heaters. One thing often left out of these conversations is the f... | |
| Don't sell your tube amps Today I swapped out my "tube like" Pass XA-25 for my Dennis Had SEP (pentode) amp and man...it's just nice to hear the subtle differences. I'll keep these amps forever. |