jonwolfpell
Responses from jonwolfpell
Would You Rather Own A Good SET Amp, Or A Great Push Pull Amp? I owned both PP & SET tube amps over the last almost 40 years w/ several different speakers in different rooms. There’s no hard & fast rules about any of them but the midrange detail & realism of a good SET amp is tough to beat at lowe... | |
20 Vintage Amps That Prove They Really Don’t Make Them Like They Used To The design of many of these amps is timeless & in many ways as good as almost anything today. The parts quality on the other hand is all over the place w/ some good & some not great that can be really improved w/ better parts which many pe... | |
Upgraded from Klipsch to Volti - Was it worth it? I think the Volti Rivals would cost at least 50% if not 100% more if they were distributed through dealers. Their build & sound quality can compare with speakers of that price point but at the price Greg sells them directly, they’re a very fai... | |
Basis Audio - Exhorbitant servicing evaluation cost I also have had fairly recent excellent interactions w/ Ms Conti & Alex Bourque regarding my 22 year old model 2500 w/ Vector arm which, btw, had worked flawlessly & still sounds excellent! I finally needed a new belt & had questions... | |
I got to get me some of this tiny vinyl. I see a new “tiny” arm / cartridge alignment tool coming soon for those obsessed with getting every last detail in those tiny grooves…. | |
Avantgarde Trio replacing Dunlavy SC-V? I owned & enjoyed Avantgarde UNO’s & Duos in a few different rooms over a number of years. Getting them dialed into a room to sound great can be very challenging & in one space, I was never really fully happen with them. Trios w/o ... | |
Your first concert was to see who and when? Believe it or not, Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera House in NYC in 1968 or so. To this day, I don’t love opera but I very much appreciate the talent of the singers & musicians. | |
Attention Horn Owners I’ve really enjoyed my Volti Rivals for almost 3 years! I’ve owned Avantgarde Unis & Duos years ago & they were also very good but challenging to get their subs to integrate smoothly w/the midrange & sound right. The Rivals are much be... | |
Was anyone else caught out by this? First cordless tone arm - a real breakthrough! | |
What decibel level do you listen at? What is ideal? I too had Advents in 1975 & then a stacked pair. They were way better than their very reasonable price would suggest. They of course had excellent bass & pretty decent mids & highs if not the most open, extended & detailed in compa... | |
What decibel level do you listen at? What is ideal? I would be very curious to hear an A/B demo of a variety of speakers only playing at lower volumes, say 70 db, with both high quality , high power solid state amps vs high quality, low powered tube amps. I would not be surprised if the for the fir... | |
What decibel level do you listen at? What is ideal? Ghdprentice -are you telling me that a high quality solid state amp that can put out 300 watts / channel will sound better than a high quality 100 watt / channel amp when they’re only driving an 89 db sensitive speaker to level of 70 db’s & th... | |
What decibel level do you listen at? What is ideal? @jrareform - if your room is sufficiently large & your speakers / amp combo can handle it, I find my ears start to overload around 103-105 peaks assuming the music is well recorded. I listen at that level very occasionally just for laughs. I ... | |
What decibel level do you listen at? What is ideal? I find it funny that so many people listen at levels where their amps, even with very inefficient speakers, are barely putting out a watt or two or maybe 10 on peaks. What’s the point of having big powerful solid state monsters if that is so? ... | |
Adding an extra 1ft to premium speaker cables My guess is that the extra set of cable connectors to join two different sets of cables might be a big cause of sound degradation even if both sets of cables were the same. |