wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| KR Audio KT88 Vacuum Tubes I have a drawer full of tubes, a Dennis Had Firebottle HO power amp and an original Freya preamp...both amps use 6SN7GTB tubes (the Had uses one, the Freya four). Recently I was trying various KTs (and 7581As from Tung Sol) power tubes from the st... | |
| Transparent Audio power cords I use some upscale (older PS Audio, Pangea, Audioquest, fat rubber thing supplied with my Pass amp) but not too extreme AC cables and my system sounds great...the cable supplied with my recently added Audioquest 707 conditioner has a flat plug on ... | |
| YouTube Indicates What the Future is For Audiophiles - Interesting Demographics. The percentage of people in general who are audiophiles is already tiny. Always has been. Sure, people had turntables and receivers back in "the day" as that was kind of all there was...a few had separates but meh...tiny minority. I own vinyl, som... | |
| Are REL the most Musical Subs? I've acquired a few used RELs over the years (costing from 200 to 300 bucks each) using one in my stereo TV rig and two in the hifi heap and they all work as designed. If one dies they were so inexpensive I'd replace it immediately with another RE... | |
| Is Recording quality the real culprit? Conversely, a sub par recording can't kill great music. | |
| Subwoofer Advice I was joking with the "exactly like mine" comment to point out that every listening space is utterly different. Bass is bass, and my suggestion is to get a couple of used RELs (that are returnable perhaps) as the high level input from the power am... | |
| I Sold my CD Player!!! Streaming sounds so incredible!!! I thought old Linda had run out of money...I could be mistaken. Oops. I should have asked her myself but I lost her number. | |
| Subwoofer Advice Bass goes everywhere...it simply cannot be directional by nature, and note that many subs (including a couple of mine) have down facing drivers...you could suspend subs from the ceiling (ha) but if bass gets to your ears, it's getting everywhere e... | |
| Subwoofer Advice If a sub is getting its sound into the room then sound is also getting into the floor. Unless you have no floor. | |
| I Sold my CD Player!!! Streaming sounds so incredible!!! I've been in the music business in some form either as a successful working musician or live sound engineer for decades. Joined the Honolulu Musicians Union the first time in 1968. There are no "big bucks" available to the vast majority of serious... | |
| I Sold my CD Player!!! Streaming sounds so incredible!!! In the real world, working musicians have to market their own CDs (or vinyl) at shows or on sites to justify the cost of those things, and nobody (or nearly nobody) makes much money selling physical product. The value of streaming is to advertise ... | |
| Subwoofer Advice The location of the mains has zero to do with the subs unless there's a phase issue. Position the mains where they sound good and then do the same with the subs. Done. | |
| I Sold my CD Player!!! Streaming sounds so incredible!!! My streaming sounds great, but there's no way to play my large collection of CDs without a CD player (also no way to play my vinyl without an analog rig...it would just sit there)...my current system for that is a Schiit URD into a Schiit Bifrost ... | |
| Amplifier Power tubes - important to sound? I use a Denis Had Firebottle SEP "HO" (high output...heh heh) or a Pass XA-25 with very efficient speakers. Swapping between these amps and noting their differences (subtle, and both sound amazingly good) is fun. Also, the Had amp can be used with... | |
| Spades vs. Banana plugs ?? I use the "el squisho" (perhaps not the actual name, but they're designed to stay tight) spades from Kimber into my speakers, and Kimber bananas into the amp as everyone knows bananas provide potassium. |