jonwolfpell
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| Wilson tiny tots While I understand a good deal for something can be tempting, it’s only a good deal if it’s what you really want. IMO, the WATTS are not at all the right speaker for what you’re trying to accomplish. They have minimal weight in the bass as well as... | |
| Triode Wire Labs I have the “full Monty” of Triode Wire Labs cables; power cords, interconnects, speaker cable, digital cables. They’re well made, sound great & reasonably priced for their quality. Highly recommend!! | |
| Why does rock concert sound suck? I saw the fantastic Hamilton show at the beautiful Providence Performing Arts Center. Great show , great venue ( completely re-done to bring back its majesty) & I was about 20 rows back in the center of the Orchestra. Sound was fair at best, v... | |
| Preamps can color sound considerably. Surprising? I’m not sure if this matters but if you think about it, a typical preamp amplifies millionth to volts so a thousand or so times but an amp just takes volts and amplifies less than 100. The pre amp does more “work” & is more susceptible to dist... | |
| Why does rock concert sound suck? It's too bad that a good home hi fi set up can & often does sound better than many live rock concerts. Small venues (less than about 400) can still sound really good but the larger venues rarely do; very hard, upper midrange peaky, boomy loose... | |
| Try This With Your SS Amp As the CA surfers said, once upon a time, “totally tubular dude”. | |
| different people may hear the same sound differently... “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder “ Probably the same for the ear too…… | |
| SCAM ALERT For AudiogoN Sellers - Too Many Questions Scammers are doing a similar thing w/ advertising apartments for rent online. They post Multiple photos & description of a place they got from somewhere & ask for an application fee or credit check fee or even first months rent & in t... | |
| What are/were the best sounding cheap components you have ever had? KLH stereo clock radio purchased in ‘82. Walnut cabinets( main unit had one speaker & then a separate speaker) & sounded really good. Obviously not extended at either end but very smooth & listenable. It was $200 which was a lot for a ... | |
| The MoFi Mess and TAS rolling over for them Great point yoyoyaya! If these recordings become digitized anyway, why then go to the trouble to "store them" on vinyl at all? It's probably the worst medium to do so that can add nothing but distortion. I guess it's all about appearances & pe... | |
| Where did you buy your first audio gear? 1974 - Atlantis Sound in NY. Original Large Advents in walnut, Pioneer 939 Receiver (70 watts / side), BIC 940 Turntable w/ a Stanton 681 EEE cartridge w/ the silly little brush attached. Sounded pretty good but Blew two tweeters & a woofer ... | |
| The MoFi Mess and TAS rolling over for them For many years now, I've considered The Absolute Sound simply to be a "high end" boutique magazine like the fancy design & fancy boating - mega yacht publications. They're fun to look at & see what's out there but offer little to no objec... | |
| Suggestion for $10K soup to nuts digital? +1 for the Innuos Zenith Mk 3! Works great, sounds great & the app is logical, easy to use on an iPad .I know this will stir up a lot of reactions but I pair it w/ the Border Patrol DAC for a combo of about $6.5K. For a 50 year turntable guy, ... | |
| Best Dedicated Streamer Another vote for Innuos. Works great, sounds great. Simple to use w/ no unnecessary displays on the unit that you probably can't see from your listening chair anyway & are all on their app on your laptop, ipad or phone. Roon endpoint if so de... | |
| We Can Make Classic Cars Outperform Today's "SuperCars": Why Not Vintage Audio? Great topic! Of course in a straight line or maybe a oblong track, a car w/ enough horsepower (& high octane fuel) / weight ratio can go really fast & at its extreme needs a parachute to help stop it. Put that older, really fast car in an... |