wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| Why I don't hear bass drums on Jazz LPs? Baloney. Well recorded acoustic drums sound like drums. Period. I've spent decades as a pro musician recording, live concert mixing, and putting great microphones here and there and sometimes not putting them anywhere at all (Kenny Wolleson asked ... | |
| Vibration Control In home audio you are beset with so many vibration issues created by playing music it's really best not to listen to anything. It's simply not worth the risk. | |
| Why I don't hear bass drums on Jazz LPs? I’m a jazz fan and especially a jazz drummer fan...current drummers like Tyshawn Sorey, Bill Stewart, Bryan Blade, Dave King, etc...not yer grandaddy’s drummers, and you can easily hear the kick in balance with everything else. Also note that not ... | |
| Thumper’s Mother So now we have courtesy monitors? That's something I automatically rebel against and hopefully so do some of you. | |
| MQA....again. If my system gets any better my head will explode from the extreme wonderfulness of it. Nobody needs that. | |
| Would you still pay $10k or more for a turntable not full analog front end these days ? Note that you can't in good conscience enjoy BOTH analog and digital. Nope...you gotta take a stand! I happen to very much enjoy my trusty old Linn/Akito/Ortofon MC analog, my new-ish Cd player, and streaming. Am I enjoying things too much? Am I i... | |
| Thumper’s Mother I say keep it real and say whatever feels right. If you can't stand some forum heat once in a while you may want to keep your fragile little self outta here. Otherwise, after having seen a lot of silliness and some interesting info in here over th... | |
| The Horror I think my Dennis Had SEP amp sounds better than any tube amp I've heard anywhere...cost about 1100 bucks (slightly used) back in 2017. My Pass XA-25 is the best sounding SS amp I've ever heard. About $5K or so...my rig, even after visiting Goodwi... | |
| So, a reviewer just said something I need to talk about. It would be ridiculous to judge any music by sound instead of musicianship. Do people actually do that? When looking at a great painting are some simply noticing a bunch of paint colors secondary to the art quality? Hmmm...Jeff Beck kills me playi... | |
| How Long Should a First Watt SIT3 Last ? I should have compared the damped and un-damped Heresy IIIs (I mean really...they were right there) but listened to them both post damping and yeah...they didn’t change much but damping’s an easy tweak though and kind of fun. I now have no memory ... | |
| How Long Should a First Watt SIT3 Last ? I think H 3s sound MUCH better than the 4s. Also I think they sound better on the floor as designed. | |
| Need some treble I use a Schiit Loki Max and can't recommend it enough...tweak recordings from your listening chair with its remote, and it works with any system as it's analog adding no detectable noise of its own. | |
| Sound stage of studio recordings The simple answer is that mixing boards have pan pots. You mic something and the panning allows you to place it wherever you want in the stereo image. Live mixing keeps everything mostly in mono so the audience all hears the same thing. When doing... | |
| Leaving tube amps on. Mollycoddling tube amps is silly to me. Although I maybe shouldn’t make a guitar amp analogy in this hallowed audiophile ground (I use tubes for hifi also, but firmly believe nothing is sacred), I’ve owned tube guitar amps that were turned on and ... | |
| Solid state amp vs tube amps Growing unreliability? Balderdash! |