wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| Best DAC for $500 Ditto the DACmagic/Pangea 100 combo...more inputs and outputs than most, and it sounds truly amazing (not recommended for USB but I don't use that feature anyway. If I did I'd maybe get the new "plus" version) shop around (although the P100 power ... | |
| tube amp auto bias and general tube amp use Modern tube amps are a lot more rugged than one might think, and one of the nice things about 'em is if after thousands of hours of use a tube gets old, you simply replace it. Also, I seriously doubt that any harm comes from hitting the re-bias se... | |
| Rega R3 Rega speakers were prefered in a speaker shoot out in some UK audio mag not long ago...won out over 4 others. Can't remember the model but they were a 3 way tower with a side firing woofer. Seemed pretty cool to me! | |
| Jolida 102B paired with Boston Acoustics A200??? Ya know...I use a pair of Boston A60IIs (bought new ages ago) on stands for the front of my video system...they're still kinda great actually...I mean really... | |
| Tonearm Cable advice needed I just bought a Jelco for my Akito and it seems to be pretty well made...Mogami with some unknown gold din plug/RCAs, and sounds fine. It's red and red cables are usually better...so there's that. | |
| Accidentally bought a Quadrophonic LP. OK to play? Don't take the chance...do you really want to risk it? Just put it down and walk away... | |
| Brad Mehldau I found him last year (he wasn't even lost)...now I have most of his stuff, and love it all. Isn't (or wasn't) he Carnegie Hall's "Artist in Residence?" In any case...great. | |
| Exceptional value in speakers today? I've been using a pair of smallish KEF Q10s for nearfield studio stuff for years...bought 'em new. Front port, coincident tweeter, not expensive, kick ass. I'm sure newer ones are even better. | |
| warm digital cable My DAC reclocks things so jitter seems to be a non issue, and I have to say (really...I have to say it) that among all the cable changes and upgrades over the years, the S/PDIF upgrade from a basic VDMxr to the beautifully made Audioquest silver V... | |
| Lifespan of a quality solid state amplifier? I attended Harvard...it was a Thursday. | |
| warm digital cable AQ VDM 5...not sure if it SOUNDS warm, but it's heavy and shiny and has lots of silver in it, and I like to take it out of the system and feel it sometimes. It's become a close friend. It seems to like me. | |
| Floorstanders for small room 10x10ft The Preludes have cheesy vinyl (mine are the non rosewood looking rosewood)...a real wood veneer would be cool. They don't have excess bass so the placement isn't too difficult. | |
| First subwoofer for a newbie. Ignore naysayers...Used RELs can be a score! Usually if a sub works at all (demand a DOA return option) it works. Period. They are designed to not self destruct from being overly cranked. My REL Q150e was under $200 (over a grand new) because it h... | |
| Floorstanders for small room 10x10ft Ditto the Silverline Prelude...an amazing speaker that makes the owner a better person (I even gained a half inch in height). They did raise the price recently ($1499?) but you can find them used, and there is nothing like them out there it seems.... | |
| Analog is the new pink There is exactly nothing wrong with this little vinyl "fadlet" among hipsters or anybody else as the only result is good for vinyl...hard to fault newbie youngsters for "moving on" from what might have been a "closer brush with vinyl", as anybody ... |