jonwolfpell
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| Tube sound is not about warmth. It's about correct presentation. I’ve had mostly good tube equipment over many years w/ some good solid state mixed in between & what I’ve noticed generally is that tube electronics do a better job of giving each instrument or vocal more space & air around it creating a b... | |
| All Pre 1970 Vintage speakers suck! Prove me wrong I think the original Large Advent came out in 1971 & was & still is a good speaker. Stack them, remove the grill cloths , provide plenty of good power & you have a fairly ugly but nice sounding speaker w/ as good bass as probably any s... | |
| Not sure if I have enough oomph. Of course the power requirements for just about any speaker depends upon not only sensitivity but also the type of music you listen to & at what volume level. if you like your music loud n a big room, you’ll use every bit of what you have &... | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. JJ Cale’s “After Midnight” w/ his understated, primo guitar work & Skynrd’s version also excellent w/ great horns & piano. | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. @loomisjohnson Did Carole King write all those songs you listed?? I knew she’s awesome but if so, that’s truly amazing! | |
| The greatest Pop song yet written and recorded. Music, like all art forms, is a matter of personal taste & “better /worse” ultimately doesn’t really apply. There are many great, moving songs mentioned. I’ve always thought “These Days” by Jackson Browne to a perfect work of art w/ real mean... | |
| Proac E.B.S Extended Bass Studio 3 I really enjoyed my EBS’s in the mid 80’s w/ a Really good Jadis preamp & Conrad Johnson Premier Four power amp ( 100 watts per side). Some think it may be the best overall amp they ever made. Bass was pretty good but not super deep. Glorious... | |
| Gary Wright has passed away Sorry to hear that.,I just listened up loud to “ Love Is Alive” two nights ago., Really fun if you’ve got a system that has real power in the bottom end. Scary w/ the lights out. | |
| What was your first record? sometime in the mid 60’s, I traded some baseball cards for a Herman’s Hermits & Monkees albums & played them on my National brand record player, radio, amp, speaker all in one combo. Panasonic was called National in Japan where it was made... | |
| Watermelon test for audiophiles! I too am a serious watermelon aficionado & consider a “perfect” food. It satisfies both a sweet craving & is very hydrating. Picking a great one is indeed both a fine art & science just like most things in life.. My only issue w/ the... | |
| Loudspeaker sensitivity and dynamics: are the two inexorably linked? As others have more or less said, given enough high quality power, even good lower sensitivity speakers could sound very dynamic although the system may “struggle” to do so. in my experience, high sensitivity speakers ( maybe 95+ db) can have th... | |
| Dynamic Range - the golden key to music nirvana? I completely agree w/ Frogman. The dynamic swings from silence to a peak & back to silence is to me what mostly differentiates live from reproduced music. It’s how we immediately know when walking into a bar, restaurant or even hear music from... | |
| What Horn loaded speaker/ speaker system for $10k'ish and under I’ve owned & really enjoyed the Volti Audio Rivals for a 1 1/2.years now. They do most things very well & effortlessly at any volume level. The smaller Razz are also quite good for less than half the price. Both are worth a serious auditi... | |
| Immersive Audio and How to Achieve It Everyone needs some “new & different” to sell more equipment & more music sources ( this is often for convenience). I get it, it’s called business.. The really good turntables & R2R decks, virtually 100 year old technology, are still t... | |
| Immersive Audio and How to Achieve It For movies / home theater, I get multiple channels immersing you in sound. I saw the new Mission Impossible last night. Pretty good overall as usual w/ bullets flying all around, car chases, moving trains etc sound on many channels all over the p... |