wolf_garcia
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| Fuses that matter. Three words occur to me when I plow through this weave of threads: Gasbag, Florid, and Insecure. I'm glad I'm a musician and not a scientist, although scientists are cute when they're little.I also think people who market audio "esoterica" or diff... | |
| Jolida jd-502p Mechans...yeah...lurid is extreme as sometimes is my humor (only in the context of an often tedious forum) ...I'll change it to "tawdry." And besides, I'm into it anyway and I can afford it, but I tend to prefer "newer things I can break in myself... | |
| Jolida jd-502p I've had insane luck with guitar amp tubes...the last time one failed on me was in my Magnatone combo in 1968. This includes constant gigging for YEARS using an old Boogie, a HiWatt, a 1960 blonde Bandmaster, various Twins, Marshalls, etc., etc...... | |
| Jolida jd-502p Although Philips "Mini Watts" are on my short list of things to try someday...is that so wrong? | |
| Jolida jd-502p Please don't lure me into the lurid world of Old Tubes. It just seems like an network of crazed and sweaty audio geeks yanking dusty old tubes from abandoned 1950s radios to put on questionable testers while trying not to knock the painted logos o... | |
| Use power conditioner to turn off amp I'm much happier turning my gear off when I'm not around (or overnight). For me the much discussed issue is simple: Leaving gear on 24/7 is wasteful self indulgence that yields very minimal or no sonic benefit and bugs the crap out of me. I've lis... | |
| compare different grades of Audioquest cable I've used AQ cables for over 20 years. Currently using 10' runs of Type 8 for speaker (AQ bananas on the amp end, AQ spades on speaker end), a VDM 5 silver coax from a Squeezebox to the DAC, a VDM 3 coax from the CD player to the DAC, King Cobra R... | |
| Use power conditioner to turn off amp Elizabeth...My ACE515 has a sequencing system that kicks in when you hit the front switch turning on the preamp circuits (and anything else in those non-power amp outlets) first, and waits 10 seconds before powering up the amp plugs, which is sort... | |
| Use power conditioner to turn off amp I use my old Adcom ACE515 for my amp and everything else. It's held up pretty well for maybe 15 years or so, and has never been upset. | |
| Jolida jd-502p I hardly "fight it" (the low cost excellence of the 502P)...I think I celebrate it! (ad nauseum maybe, but I prefer enthusiasm to cool). I use a Chinese Kavent S-33 (before going out of production it was built alongside Vincent stuff) that is a Gi... | |
| NEW CA DACMagic+ I've called them about that some months ago, and they said they were waiting for a cable to be available for it...I suggest you call 'em to see what the status if that is, and report back! | |
| Jolida jd-502p Jedinite24 makes a good point about Jolida in general...other amps I've looked at (and some I've actually listened to) are from VTL (85), Conrad Johnson, Cary, Rogue, and even a Tim de Paravicini EAR thing...all sell for multiples of the Jolida co... | |
| elevating subwoofer... Why do you need spikes for a sub? Unless it's downfiring of course. | |
| Jolida jd-502p First, I'm no gentleman. Second, instead of wasting my $$$ on vintage tubes I'm merely enjoying my inexpensive, although perhaps not properly designed, Jolida. Apparently the rapidly aging triodes sound great. Who knew? WU KNEW! | |
| Jolida jd-502p I'm poking around for Jolida input/driver tube options also...Just to throw some other opinions in there, Michael Allen at Jolida likes the (expensive-ish) Phillips Mini Watts, and Jolida Jerred likes GEs. I have reservations about buying older NO... |