wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| Case in point: a $90,000 power cord by ASUNZ When Nelson Pass stops recommending the fat generic power cord supplied with his amps (like my beloved XA-25), I may try whatever he recommends next. Or not. I recently bought a beefy power cord for my previous power conditioner and it was so stif... | |
| Case in point: a $90,000 power cord by ASUNZ I think it's still possible to get a decent power cable for $45,000. | |
| Speaker recommendations welcomed Pure Audio Project Duet 15 Horn 1. Open baffle masterpiece. | |
| ordering from China.....which Chinese Tube Integrated at 3k? Black Ice (formerly Jolida) makes things in China but finishes, backs them up, and services them in the US. I owned a Jolida tube amp for years and it was a great sounding amp that worked perfectly. A bargain. | |
| Tube change. As another owner of a Dennis Had amp (Inspire SEP Firebottle HO...high output!) I do sympathize with multi tube amp owners (owned a Jolida amp for a while that had 4 output tubes). I'm obligated to use efficient speakers but I like horns so it's F... | |
| Would You Rather Own A Good SET Amp, Or A Great Push Pull Amp? I switch between a push-pull class A Pass XA-25 and a Dennis Had SEP (pentode) tube amp. Both sound beautiful and I really don't know why I swap them out except for feeling bad for the one that's not being used. Nobody wants a sad, unused amp. | |
| DIY Speaker Kits, a good idea? I have some homemade Magicos and melting that pile of aluminum was sort of intense but totally worth it. | |
| EveAnna has sold her biz New tube amps seem to be showing up all the time based on what I see in audio magazines, more tubes are used for guitar amps than home audio will ever get close to. Tubes don't seem to be going away any time soon. | |
| lightning storm At the first sign of a storm simply go outside and hold up a tall metal pole to attract the lightening and hopefully divert it from your house. Works every time. | |
| How competitive are you with your system? How my system compares to others could not be more irrelevant. I've been in the live music biz forever (or at least since the 60s), and an audio geek for as long, so I know how to get my system sounding to my tastes...everybody does that, possibly... | |
| What exactly is critical listening? Who does it? I smoke some weed and the listening gets critical immediately. Highly recommended. (unintentional pun) | |
| Best products and process to polish piano black KEF speakers Try Novus #1...Collings guitars turned me on to this stuff years ago. Use it on everything from guitars to motorcycle helmets. | |
| What exactly is critical listening? Who does it? Yeah...those damn tympany players need to be reigned in...the good news for me is there are close to zero of them in my normal listening...small jazz combos, shoe gaze banjo, mope metal, mope mope, no mope, etc. | |
| Battle of the affordables I went through an ordeal of ordering some well regarded speakers I hadn't heard only to send them all back and keep the ones I already had and still have. ZU Dirty Weekend, Sonist Concerto 3, Klipsch Heresy IV, Silverline Prelude (great speaker an... | |
| Should I upgrade from REL/510 subwoofer to REL/812 subwoofer? I've been using 2 older REL subs for years, and just swapped one out for a new REL Classic 99. Largish room, killer sound. |