pesky_wabbit
Responses from pesky_wabbit
| RIP Otis Rush It’s a grim reality check when all the great artists you have grown up with start dying.....One of the very best and will be sorely missed. Although, it must be said, reaching 84 when you have spent a lot of your life touring the blues circuit is ... | |
| Best $40 I've spent...maybe ever Even simple isopropyl alcohol applied with cotton buds or pipipe cleaners can work wonders. | |
| Filling speaker Stands? @glupson - My sincere apologies re Mickey, I should not have besmirched his impeccable gentlemanly reputation by association with GK. | |
| Filling speaker Stands? Maybe if GK could be induced to inserting a phone receiver up his nether regions he could be teleported to a parallel universe where his Mickey Mouse compendium of physics actually work. | |
| Filling speaker Stands? So did anyone actually AB the system with filled stands and without filled stands? No.Geoff,Replacing your medically prescribed lithium regime with Albanian overproof Absinthe does not result in a particularly good look.Can't say it's been happeni... | |
| Filling speaker Stands? Just one more example. When reviewing Atacama Nexus stands TNT AUDIO had the following to say.The performance of the Nexus 7 can be easily improved though. Each stand weighs in 6 kgs (13 lbs) but you can make it heavier by just adding some filler ... | |
| Filling speaker Stands? Partington have been building top quality stands in the U.K. for decades, have won many awards and really know their stuff. the Super Dreadnought can be filled to dampen them and improve their sound deadening ability. This also allows you to "adju... | |
| Filling speaker Stands? S’funny Geoff I have heard some people swear by that foam stuff you get in cylinders to inflate your flat tyres in an emergency when you can’t reach an auto repair shop. Never tried it myself, but may have a similar effect to the wool you are talk... | |
| Filling speaker Stands? One common mistake people make is to fully fill their stands. It can kill the sound totally dead. Far bettter results are usually usually obtained by going 50% to 65% max. Keeps a lower C of G too. | |
| Best sounding "budget" integrated amp for Vandersteen 2C. Something that awakes them from their soporific daze. Forget anything remotely laid back. | |
| Amp upgrade from Ayre V-5xe I am loving the Ayre sound (V-5xe Amp,You think the amp in your system sounds great, so in a strange twist of logic you seek to divest yourself of that amp. | |
| Best vintage amps (late 70s / early 80s) under $3k? Robertson 4010. I’ve got one in pristine condition that has seen off all comers in its power bracket (and some distance beyond). | |
| Perfect Path Technologies: Omega E mat I have previously tried several Bybee IQSE in my system and I find the E-Mat to be a better product for my audio-visual enjoyment.Did you try an IQSE inside the breaker panel door? | |
| Perfect Path Technologies: Omega E mat Ozzy, you are perfectly placed to do some great unbiased additive / subtractive/ comparative experimental work, keeping the Bybees in the equation. Just don‘t let popular opinion sway you from grasping this opportunity.Perhaps the effects of these... | |
| Perfect Path Technologies: Omega E mat The claim that they employ two different and mutually incompatible technologies requires robust investigation. |