wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| RIP Jeff Beck I recently read a comment from Jeff Beck that Strats were hard to play, which they sort of are compared to a Les Paul or anything with a shorter scale. He thought a more difficult guitar made you work harder. | |
| Buying Equipment Based on Philosophy??? If a Schiit or Pass labs item I own didn’t sound great I wouldn’t own them. I’ve "un-owned" some gear from some seemingly very hip designers, so really...come on man... | |
| Those singers you enjoy,....that don't really have a great voice? Glenn Gould...he hums along with his piano but I still like him. Billy Gibbons has a great voice by the way, as does Elvis Costello and many others listed here. What's the standard? Opera? A great voice is one that gets the point across mostly in... | |
| Audio gear, sonic quality when you listen in less (or non-) focused ways I like my gear heap so much that I even enjoy it when it's off. | |
| RIP Jeff Beck His "Truth" album is still amazing and has licks that run through my head daily over 50 years later. The first time I saw him was Beck, Bogert & Apice's last show ever (Honolulu, with a Les Paul), and later saw him a couple of times during the... | |
| A free tweak revisited I have dimmers everywhere in my house, especially in my main listening room (the living room I suppose). No issues from dimmer related hum as I use great cables and have always had good hum busting power supplies and good AC conditioning (currentl... | |
| Sad to hear the good people at Timbernation had a fire (and no insurance). I just sent 10 grand to garebear. | |
| Are There Improvements that Can Be Easily and Quickly Made Without Buying More Stuff? No. You always need more stuff. And keep it clean by taking it all outside and blasting it with a powerful leaf blower. | |
| Sad to hear the good people at Timbernation had a fire (and no insurance). So is Audiogon going to be used as "tragedy central" now? My wife was the chair of our region's United Way. We give more to charity than most people earn in a year and I personally have volunteered my services completely free of charge literally h... | |
| Sad to hear the good people at Timbernation had a fire (and no insurance). Why is this on this forum? | |
| New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones) The review had the speaker on its side as it fit the available stands better and aimed the tweeter up slightly. With a coincident driver this won't matter (unless it's a tower speaker and then...well...it gets weird from there). I liked Jones' co... | |
| New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones) I’ve never seen any speaker get the immediate drooling support and hype like this speaker. Andrew Jones is maybe the only speaker design superstar. Regarding China, that boat has sailed as an amazing amount of high end audio stuff is made there, a... | |
| How long does it take a decent quality speaker to "wear out"? Ask a guitar player who owns an original "tweed" Fender amp from 1954 or so. | |
| Starting Point for Room Treatments? Furniture, carpets, artwork...you wind up with something sounding like a "room" where people might live. Otherwise, it's s little messy but most would agree the best solution is to get ceramic sheets with small perforations and fill them with Chia... | |
| Convincing your local dealer to let you try speakers at home I think another solution to the auditioning issue is to load up a large truck with facsimiles of your listening space furnishings and hifi gear and bring all of it into an audio shop, arrange the furniture (and portable walls with windows if neede... |