wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| The finest Cable Elevators you ever auditioned? I joked with a dude in a respected hifi "salon" that the answer was hanging the cables from strings attached to the ceiling...like marionettes...and he claimed he knows someone who did that. Man.... | |
| How to get the impact of a live concert? Here's some reality...relatively "uncompressed" sound is one difference that the live stuff gives you...and NO home audio speaker I know of could handle even one live miked kick drum thump without exploding...none. Period...you need extreme "pro" ... | |
| How to get the impact of a live concert? I noodle along on an electric guitar or bass using a tube amp with my PA driven drum tracks for hours everyday...so you could merely come to my house. Also, modern "constant directivity" PA horns in high quality systems are often pretty clear...no... | |
| How to get the impact of a live concert? I owned a pair if Altec A7s for years...part of my PA all through the 70s (eventually bi-amped), and made cool (albeit large), sweet sounding (that middy horn and woody wood box) stereo speakers although somewhat colored sounding by today's standa... | |
| Kelsie/KAVD/Kavent gone? I've seen the site online all along...and no response to calls or emails. Maybe I'll try 'em again. | |
| Learned a valuable lesson about ambient noise I grew up in Honolulu where the windows are always open for the incessant (trade wind) breeze. It was nice, it was constant, and if that breeze wasn't there it would have been WAY too hot. Moved to the Right Coast years ago and one of the first th... | |
| How do I free up a stuck volume control? I use D100 on every volume control, motorized or otherwise. | |
| How do I free up a stuck volume control? A couple of things...sometimes on audio gear the knob is pushed in on the shaft to the point that it won't turn (had that on a new preamp with motorized volume that was slightly squished during shipping...pulled it out and it worked), otherwise I ... | |
| Warm Replacement for Adcom GFA 545 II I use speakers of a similar impedance (Silverline Preludes) with AQ Type 8 speaker cables...also a couple of pairs of Diamondbacks and a 60 wpc Jolida JD502P amp that is inexpensive, sounds amazing, and has plenty of power. A very even tone all ar... | |
| Tube vs SS vs Digital With 15K to burn you can get into some tube mania...be warned as tubes can be extremely addictive. After over 40 years using tubes in guitar and bass amps I have never had one blow up, and those things get bounced all over the damn place. Kind of ... | |
| Anyone tried out Vincent Audio Intergrated? That Vincent 236 integrated is a beast...a friend has one and it's a serious piece of gear that's imposingly larger in person than in pics...and sounds really good. | |
| Totem Arro vs Silverline Prelude vs Salk Songtower Another note...my initial non-working woofer prompted me to call Silverline and talk to Alan Yun...THAT was cool and he told me, among other things, to not bi-wire them, don't lose the jumpers, and he'd sell me another woofer no problemo...weirdly... | |
| Totem Arro vs Silverline Prelude vs Salk Songtower I think the Alon Boxers are the only speaker named after a type of underwear. Sandman...I read your entire reply before I realized you were responding to me, so you get this story: I discovered the Preludes when a friend bought a pair (and a REL s... | |
| Totem Arro vs Silverline Prelude vs Salk Songtower Sandman...I'm using the Preludes with a REL Q150e sub and it's a very nice match, along with a recently added tube power amp. Although I've never felt the treble of the Preludes to be strident (with my pile of gear anyway), the tube amp (new versi... | |
| Cary CAD 120s MkII vs. Music Reference RM200 MkII In the Stereophile review it notes that there are no blue LEDs with the Music Ref amp...shocking. |