wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| Speaker return or sell As New The ZU deal is a good one...I recently returned an Aegir amp to Schiit Audio and they don't refund the initial shipping charge, don't pay for return shipping (Unless the item had issues and they're replacing it), and charged a 5% restocking fee (r... | |
| Reference Full Function Tube Preamplifier My Schiit Freya runs silently, is balanced, has 3 function options, more inputs than most (5 inputs including 2 balanced, and one balanced and 2 single ended outputs) and sounds astonishingly good. A 128 step relay switched volume works perfectly ... | |
| Watts and power After all of the back and forth regarding the watts issue, I was wondering if there's a simple device like my Radio Shack multimeter that could be stuck on the speaker output (or speaker input) jacks to see exactly how many watts I'm using to driv... | |
| How good can it get, really? - my stereo sounds amazing! If you have furniture in your listening room you can ignore room treatment as many hifi music fans do. If you have logic in your brain and reasonable listening chops you can also ignore pretty much everything sold by SR or Perfect Path or any othe... | |
| How good can it get, really? - my stereo sounds amazing! I'm in the same boat so to speak, as far as really liking my current rig...I also think understanding something about why things can sound great without being stupidly expensive is key...great design is what it's all about, and I use some "previou... | |
| Swirls and Scratches on Glossy Back Wood Surface Guitar makers like Collings use Novus so there's that...nobody makes wood finishes like high end guitar companies, and I was turned on to the stuff by Pat Di Burro of Essex, NH, who has worked on some of my guitars and is considered the premier gu... | |
| NEW PAYPAL AUDIOGON PAYMENT RULES I had a sale interrupted by the pesky "merchant ID" thing, and fixed it instantly by listing the merchant ID from Paypal I didn't know I had. No biggie. | |
| Merry Christmas! Happy Hollandaise... | |
| Moon by Simaudio, Arcam and Hegel: Quality of Customer and Technical Phone Support I've needed so little customer support over the years It's basically an irrelevant question for me...an Acurus amp years ago got buzzy and it was fixed twice for free by Mondial, but that was maybe 25 years ago...otherwise Jolida people spoke to m... | |
| 6SN7 variants circa 2019 - tone, longevity, reliability, value NOS GE 6SN7GTBs are a great tube and I use 5 of 'em...4 in my preamp and 1 in my single ended little tube power amp...I like the Sylvania "chrome domes" also, and Amperex although they're hard to find. | |
| Ayone know the wattage used at a Rock concert? Powered, likely class D, phased array or line array systems are pretty much the standard now. 1,000 or more watts per speaker (more for subs) so simply count 'em up. Note that the primary feature of the famous huge Dead system wasn't just midrange... | |
| Watts and power I doubt that audio savvy people drive tube amps to clipping when actively listening unless that listening involves heavy drinking and dancing with lampshade headwear. I used to be able to easily demonstrate where my 12Wpc tube amp clipped because ... | |
| Billy Cobham Question Chad Wackerman is the best drummer name ever. | |
| ... How I should set the volume... Or maybe "thank you for providing balanced inputs" as the plural would apply. Just a suggestion... | |
| Does raising speaker cables off the floor really make a big difference? Vibration is part of music, or is in fact what music IS really. Since many can't get away from this music thing messing with your cables and components to a degree that causes symptoms of elitism, maple worship, and sad component isolation and cab... |