wolf_garcia
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| How Long Should a First Watt SIT3 Last ? I think H 3s sound MUCH better than the 4s. Also I think they sound better on the floor as designed. | |
| Need some treble I use a Schiit Loki Max and can't recommend it enough...tweak recordings from your listening chair with its remote, and it works with any system as it's analog adding no detectable noise of its own. | |
| Sound stage of studio recordings The simple answer is that mixing boards have pan pots. You mic something and the panning allows you to place it wherever you want in the stereo image. Live mixing keeps everything mostly in mono so the audience all hears the same thing. When doing... | |
| Leaving tube amps on. Mollycoddling tube amps is silly to me. Although I maybe shouldn’t make a guitar amp analogy in this hallowed audiophile ground (I use tubes for hifi also, but firmly believe nothing is sacred), I’ve owned tube guitar amps that were turned on and ... | |
| Solid state amp vs tube amps Growing unreliability? Balderdash! | |
| REL S510 or S812 I own 3 older RELs (Q series) bought used for around 200 bucks each...one is in my video system. They all work perfectly, and although they're not under warranty (and REL won't repair them) they're so inexpensive that they've more than paid their... | |
| 5 steps in developing hearing PRAT: Pretentious, rhetorical, and theatrical. | |
| must you play music to break in tubes I've owned tube amps since the mid 60s, and I will never stand for even a moment of any crackling sound. Others may tolerate that sort of thing, or think up silly explanations based on nonsense to explain it (flakes falling on the cathode? really?... | |
| Did anyone else disconnect thier equipment due to the geomagnetic storms? No, but space lasers can strip your gears. | |
| How often, and how, do you clean your stylus? That's a very personal and inappropriate question. For shame! | |
| Solid state amp vs tube amps Raul...Nonsensical response penalty...minus 3 points. | |
| Can you tell the difference between a $200 and a $200,000 guitar? Note also that acoustic guitars really respond to being played frequently. Richard Hoover (Santa Cruz guitars) tells a story about a Stradavarius in Cremona that gets played a little every day to keep its tone "alive." Hoover also likes mahogany a... | |
| Why even bother? Interesting that you resent the questions...or re-sent maybe? | |
| Solid state amp vs tube amps Ask yourself why most professional electric guitar players use tube amps...then ask yourself, "why am I talking to myself?" Is it OK to like both SS (bad look when abbreviated) and tube amps? I have efficient speakers so I enjoy an excellent tube ... | |
| Can you tell the difference between a $200 and a $200,000 guitar? I've been a professional guitarist since 1967. I've owned a LOT of guitars and tonewoods make a huge difference even in electrics. Interestingly every seasoned electric player sort of gets their own tone going...listen to Billy Gibbons using all h... |