wolf_garcia
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| When to go solid state vs. vacuum? Speaker matching? Who can do THAT these days? Unless the speakers are very inefficient or designed by idiots they should work, although tone preference is personal. You can buy a factory upgraded 60wpc Jolida for half the cost of a Primaluna, and ... | |
| The Best Compliment You've Gotten On Your Rig? Try telling anyone not invested in this stuff how happy you are with your new power supply. The tube amp does elicit some surprise since you can see the tubes, and I just tell people, "don't be frightened". Unless you are hanging with another audi... | |
| The Best Compliment You've Gotten On Your Rig? Almost nobody compliments me on my rig because nobody cares (except a couple of fellow musicians), and when I demonstrate its wonderfulness to, for example, dinner guests , they sort of pretend to care but in that context they're likely being poli... | |
| Class A amps or Class D??: Which sounds better?? I took Corey's class at Yale...he was brilliant, albeit somewhat smelly. | |
| Budget Chinese Tube amps - any good? If a well made Chinese based amp isn't expensive, you can assume the markup isn't enormous. Besides...our great country was built on slave labor so there's a tradition there (joking, but still a truth albeit a sad one). Apparently, unlike MAC and ... | |
| Class A amps or Class D??: Which sounds better?? As I recently posted elsewhere, speculation about the sound of something that the speculator hasn't ACTUALLY heard is merely speculative speculating and those opinions are worthless as information except to the speculator, who may have found some ... | |
| Speakers and air-conditioning If the humidity is melting your particle board, move. Immediately...before you melt. | |
| Phono Preamp Recommendations My 640p is a thoroughly vetted inexpensive item that got some of the best reviews I've seen for ANY phono preamp, has one of the most accurate RIAA circuits ever measured, is built like a tank, and sounds amazing. It also has a (rare these days) 2... | |
| Speakers and air-conditioning Actually...I bet humidity has a larger effect on a system than many of the precious little tweaks we get caught up in...so I say it was a great question, albeit apparent mirth fodder. | |
| Speakers and air-conditioning Humidity can mess with wood musical instruments like acoustic guitars (big time...I adjust necks all year), but speakers boxes are so thick I can't imagine an issue, and drivers are usually coated with enough goo to avoid saturation. Unless you li... | |
| Silverline Preludes : Still a good buy? I do listen to Classical and the Preludes do that just fine. I'm a believer that good speakers should work with everything. Musical information among different genres is the same thing really...complex acoustic piano harmonics, orchestras, well pr... | |
| Just wanted to share my joy, and ask two questions Weirdly (after punishing floors with little spike holes for many, many years), I found that Vibrapods somehow work better than spikes. At least for my Silverline Preludes (small floorstander). I discovered this through a friend with the same speak... | |
| Silverline Preludes : Still a good buy? I wanted to raise the Preludes up a little (just to line up the tweeter with my ears, which likely isn't necessary but hey, I couldn't help it and didn't want to move my ears) and I found some butcher blocks at a Home Goods store that were cheap a... | |
| Phono Preamp Recommendations Using an Adcom 565 might solve the "input matching" level issue I have with phono preamps...although adding a lot of circuitry to the mix, you'd have some serious gain to mess with at the input of the main preamp...to make all the sources the same... | |
| Silverline Preludes : Still a good buy? OH NO!!! Kidding...I've upgraded everything around my Preludes and they've responded by sounding better and better, and they were great right out of the box!. I use an older REL Q150e sub with them and in my room they sound AMAZING. The most recen... |