wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| 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. | |
| the gateway product that turned you into an audiophile Late 60s KLH compact system. Superb speakers. | |
| Are you operating in the correct SPL window for high-fidelity listening? I’ve been a pro musician since the 60s, and I’ve learned that there is no bottom line regarding level. After years of hurting people with my trusty JBL festooned Twin Reverb with a Tele or Les Paul I switched to various smaller amps pointed at my ... | |
| Looking for Solid Core Speaker cables I use Kimber 8PR as they put their "varistrand" grouping of solid core wires in this cable and the 8 version puts a 10 guage total into each leg. A great sounding cable for peanuts. | |
| Tube Pre-amp Suggestions. I switch between a Pass XA-25 and a Dennis Had Inspire "Firebottle" HO (high output) SEP...speakers are modded Klipsch Heresy IIIs (prefer the titanium mids in the IIIs to the poly re-designed mids in the IVs). | |
| KT88 Tubes I noticed on the Apos tube site they claim that 5% of these tubes when tested meet their criteria. This means that whoever is manufacturing these tubes is so bad at it that 95% of them are rejected by Apos (sorry about the redundancy). Rest assure... | |
| Tube Pre-amp Suggestions. Schiit Freya + preamps are rated "Class A" by Stereophile and seem to suffer from being too inexpensive...amazingly. I've been enjoying the original version for years, use NOS GE 6SN7GTB tubes, and have yet to see any other preamp with the flexibi... | |
| Bluesound node confusion I use a 2i into a better DAC and get great results. | |
| Feedback on Costco & Amazon sound absorption panels from folks who have purchased them. You have to be cautious with sound absorbing panels since when utilized they can suck up all the sound so none reaches your ears. This is the dirty little secret nobody in the sound panel cabal wants you to know. |