wolf_garcia
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| New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones) Why hasn't KEF thought of something like this?...wait...uh... | |
| What should be mandatory in every professional published review- A few other things should be mandatory: What does the item smell like? How many total parts does it have? Can it survive being attacked by gorillas? Does the warranty cover excessive rust? How long can it float? Can its lights lights trigger a sei... | |
| Is the seated-centered solo listening to music a dated tech? Basic fact: The speaker closest to you will always sound louder. Always...there is no technology from any speaker designers that will track where you are and adjust itself. Consequently, a stereo mix that's well done always sounds better from the ... | |
| New Dennis Had amps Had lists his amps on Ebay generally and fairly often. His prices have gone up but are still a relative bargain for a world class hand made amp. I emailed him (his Ebay address) when I first bought my amp and he was surprised that the last guy had... | |
| Do You Tell Others How Much You Have Invested in Your System? The rare friends who are audio geeks already know what things cost, and those that aren't don't care. | |
| A New MC to Catch One's Attention When I decide to get a $9,000 cart, please shoot me. My $500 Ortofon Quintet Blue is keeping me unshot. Or so it seems. By the way, is MC ever going away again? Just wondering. | |
| New Dennis Had amps I've owned a Had Firebottle HO (allegedly "high output") for years and it's brilliant, and handles pretty much any power tubes of the "KT" variety with aplomb...most recently KT66s for some inexplicable reason. Got it barely used for around 1100 b... | |
| System that sounds so real it is easy to mistaken it is not live No sarcasm backtracking...deduct 9 points. | |
| System that sounds so real it is easy to mistaken it is not live Possibly the weirdest and now my favorite Atmasphere post ever...yeah man! Reviews of my Klipsch Heresy speakers often say they sound like live music. I don't necessarily agree but it's comforting to my fragile ego...I've been in the live music b... | |
| Pass labs upgrade path Oy. | |
| Do YOU have a flat frequency response in your room? My hifi room is uncorrected by any digital nannies (I use a Loki EQ for my headphones only) and my system sounds astoundingly good in its room with a what I suppose is called a "room sound." Music generally takes place in rooms if it's played by a... | |
| Speaker upgrade I prefer my Heresy IIIs over the IVs (I owned a pair for through "break-in" and sold 'em) because the titanium mid horn sounds better than the "polyimide." I mean way better. I'd like to hear Forte IIIs for that reason although my Heresy IIIs are ... | |
| THE IMPORTANCE OF TIME DOMAIN RESPONSE MUST READ MY WELL THOUGHT OUT RESPONSE...MUST READ...When I sit down in my system's sweet spot to listen to my well sorted gear pile, by far my favorite thing to play is a nice square wave. You can sit there dreaming or get up and dance...yeah man...give so... | |
| Tube preamp options Get a Schiit Freya + and cut through the fog of overpriced and often inferior preamps. Go Stereophile "Class A" and save thousands, or simply sink into the abyss of expectation bias...your choice. | |
| Pass Then vs. Pass Now I’ve owned a lot of amps over the decades (including a couple of 535s, preamps, etc.) and still use a later Adcom amp in my video rig. I had a great sounding Forte Model 55 amp that was sort of "Threshold adjacent" just before going all tube...in ... |