wolf_garcia
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| Microphonic from Vacuum Tubes? It’s likely haunted...few people mention this but it can’t be cured by tube dampers as it requires an exorcism (performed by any holy person, or simply a "holier than thou" person). This can also help with cable break-in, "otherwordly" soundstage ... | |
| Cable burn in I have a few Morrow cables and the longest it took for burn-in was 367 hours and 10 minutes. Once the cables are "burned" everything changes...food tastes better, colors are brighter, people are suddenly gathered on the street to hear a bit of my ... | |
| Primaluna or not Primaluna I had a Jolida amp for years...ran with pretty much all the tubes you listed and sounded great. | |
| How many people do you think have the same DAC, amplifier, and speakers The answer is 4. | |
| Viva Tubes I've bought a lot of tubes from Viva and they've always been prompt in shipping and every tube has been fine. I've called them to talk about things a couple of times and they're utterly professional and cool. | |
| What Neutral Means in Reviews & Our Discussions? Are We Confusing Tame/Flat For Neutral? Earlier ditto? What planet indeed. Some basics: A live show has actual musicians playing, which has a dynamic quality all its own and we all know that. Filmed ballet doesn’t cut it for me, but live does. My damned 50 years of experience has actual... | |
| What Neutral Means in Reviews & Our Discussions? Are We Confusing Tame/Flat For Neutral? "It appears you just don't dig live acoustic performances." It appears you don't comprehend much of what I've said, including the fact that live acoustic performances have been my life for decades. Why would I "not dig" Vijay Iyer's performance? I... | |
| 5 Dumb Things Audiophiles Believes. I think he's pretty cool, especially with his PRAT comments which closely track my thinking about that ridiculous and nonsensical term. | |
| Tubes, cheese, wine and cognac For years I found pretty much all Gold Lion tubes (120w, 150s, 88s, 66s)to be amazingly good in a couple of different power amps, and the KT66s are my preferred tubes in my current fave tube amp, a SEP Dennis Had Firebottle HO (high output, such a... | |
| What Neutral Means in Reviews & Our Discussions? Are We Confusing Tame/Flat For Neutral? "each and every live acoustic event is more or less "holy" in and of itself"...even when they sound bad? I’m not a religious person but maybe I should be to understand the "Holliness" of events, but some sound better than others, and to use them a... | |
| What Neutral Means in Reviews & Our Discussions? Are We Confusing Tame/Flat For Neutral? Live acoustic music has acoustic signatures and anomalies from myriad reflections and time and phase realities, all interdependent and only becoming a reality at the moment it reaches your ears. | |
| What Neutral Means in Reviews & Our Discussions? Are We Confusing Tame/Flat For Neutral? Over 5 plus decades I've mixed many live concerts, performed both as a solo player and as part of live bands, done studio work for my own stuff and commercial recording gigs, own my own studio...blah blah blah...none of which makes my opinion more... | |
| Help finding a subwoofer Here's a negative comment about REL subs: I use 3 from the same era, 2 Q150s and a Q108 MK2, and REL will not repair them...no no no. I inquired about this and they stated to me in no uncertain terms...no. There ya go. I still like RELs though and... | |
| What Neutral Means in Reviews & Our Discussions? Are We Confusing Tame/Flat For Neutral? I often wonder what the deal is with the live sound reference as the benchmark for high quality in audio. Do live things always sound right? If I play an acoustic guitar which clearly sounds different to the player than somebody sitting near the p... | |
| Maybe this is the winter you build something! A raft so I can escape. |