wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| Pre-amp with balanced suggestions? A new Kavent S-33 is much cheaper than 3K, and will stuff the monkeys out of most gear 3 times the price. | |
| How to clean the exterior of an amp? Use windex. On anything except newer Cambridge Audio. | |
| Preamp hissing detectable at low volume? I change the polarity on things (recently my TT had a little noise after removing it for something...reversed the AC plug and it's quiet again), lift the ground wherever I need to, etc. Even my REL sub that is on a different wall plug than the res... | |
| Looking for a DAC for the Squeezebox Touch Note that adding a better power supply (in my case the Pangea P100) to the DACMagic bumps it up to another level and sounds even better with the SBT. Amazing. | |
| Piano Notes On Harbeth SHL 5 Piano strings are in groups that decay in various degrees if sustained...compare a digital piano by muting it during a chord strike and then bring in the volume while it's decaying and you can demo what I mean...an actual piano has movement and ha... | |
| Speaker cable vibration? Harbeth makes very expensive speakers that vibrate like crazy...part of their design. | |
| Speaker cable vibration? "Respecting claims" led to Tice Clocks and Mpingo discs. I can "hear" the difference between logic and myth most of the time, and claiming to hear a difference between spades and bananas makes you a "connectist". | |
| Any advantages to bi-wiring speakers vs. single My conversation the Yun was only about the Preludes...and I confirmed his thoughts when I tried it both ways. I've biwired other speakers and it seemed to improve 'em so I was actually surprised. | |
| Speaker cable vibration? Audiofeil is wrong because apparently Sonic_genius hears a difference, and he's not shy about it. The Anti Banana movement is alive and well, and causing grief among Vandersteen and vintage Creek users. Personally, I live an open and welcoming lif... | |
| Any advantages to bi-wiring speakers vs. single Some people like incoherency I suppose...but there does seem to be a little trend among other speaker makers to supply one set of posts and make a statement about it. I think the option is nice, and gives the listener something to play around with... | |
| Integrated Amplifiers with neutral sound Kiza seems to be baiting me...a Master Baiter perhaps? | |
| Integrated Amplifiers with neutral sound Actually, the original poster said he had warm speakers...so you need to balance with a cold sounding integrated to result in that ideal sound: Tepid. | |
| Integrated Amplifiers with neutral sound Vincent makes a nice integrated...Shunya, Kavent...all sort of related and big bang for the buck. | |
| Any advantages to bi-wiring speakers vs. single Biwiring must depend on the speaker brand...Alan Yun told me NOT to biwire my Silverline Preludes that he designed...he said they would be "less coherent". I biwired them anyway (yeah man...a rebel!), listened, put 'em back to single wire, listene... | |
| Speaker cable vibration? Binding posts sould not vibrate...tighten them! Do it now! I use spades at the amp and bananas at the speaker, so any differences are cancelled out...heh heh...I do have various sorbethane based items stuck under pretty much everything but the wir... |