wolf_garcia
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| Musicians in your living room vs. you in the recording hall? I like to come home after driving around the block pretending to be looking for a parking spot, then pretend to stand in line outside my house...I come in and sit in the corner of my listening room and imagine there’s a loud couple talking behind ... | |
| Does anyone have any impressions about the Aphex Sound Exciter ? Kaitty...turn the oxygen tank up a little as that could help with your reading comprehension...maybe... | |
| Does anyone have any impressions about the Aphex Sound Exciter ? When the Aphex gizmo showed up in the 70s there was quite a buzz about it...tales of self destructing circuit boards if you tried to open it and see what was inside, hushed conversations about what it was doing...amazing stuff. Note that Pass gave... | |
| Hendrix 50th Anniversary Electric Ladyland Box Release It's not, to paraphrase Zappa, a "pushup contest." Simply ask any great living guitar player about Hendrix and they'll likely note that nobody played like that...astonishing technique and feel that was really all Jimi, and there were simply very f... | |
| Thoughts on extending speaker life. I have a pair of KEF Q10s bought new in '94 or something...I originally used them as near field monitors in my studio...these things are maybe 25 years old and still sound fabulous with the rubber surrounds pliable and seemingly fine, showing no s... | |
| Crown vs Vidar "I have no doubt that the Cherry Amp is better" and "another choice that I’m sure is better sounding" are both statements that play as ridiculous unless you’ve actually had a Vidar around and compared it directly to other amps. I’ve heard a Vidar ... | |
| Speaker advice for listening to Blues music I've been playing blues guitar and other styles professionally for over 50 years, and I'm an audio geek as well as an active live concert sound technician/mixer. As no system should be "music specific" and especially shouldn't sound like an old tu... | |
| Crown vs Vidar I suggest you buy a Vidar and spend a little time listening to it, as nobody's opinion here will match your own in-home experience...if it sucks you'll know immediately and can send the thing back. I had no idea what a Freya sounded like until I s... | |
| looking for a tube preamps that doesn't sound like SS Schiit balanced "Freya +" at 900 bucks...the "improved" version (same features as the original but adds some things like a motorized volume control and tube "turn off" when using the passive or FET modes...great way to save tubes if using the thin... | |
| Fuse replacement in the Exposure 2010S integrated amplifier I only tested them when presented with several samples from a friend in the biz. The "50,000 users" claim has never been verified, but I’m fairly sure the amount of people NOT using these useless and overpriced products (including geoffkait as the... | |
| Klipsch Chorus II for $600, yes or no? Note that upgrades exist for many out of production (or simply upgraded) Klipsch speakers, so you could arguably make 'em even better if need be. I'm a relatively recent convert to Klipsch "Heritage" designs (Heresy IIIs) and can't imagine returni... | |
| Do I need a new amp? I'm also a jazz freak due to an extended "beatnik" personal phase. Read some of "atmasphere's" comments on why most SS amps sound the way they do, and you might want to stay with tubes. They just sound right. The only exception to this that intere... | |
| What is trully important? Many studios use what I consider to be simply awful sounding speakers and still manage to produce decent recordings. Yamaha MS10s...ouch...Abby Road uses B&W speakers and others, but if your hifi rig is good system every recording is going to ... | |
| Phase Inversion, to flip polarity or not I own an acoustic guitar that's in reverse phase, but I find that if I play things backwards it sounds fine. | |
| Fuse replacement in the Exposure 2010S integrated amplifier I tested some SR fuses a while back after simply assuming they were ridiculous, and found that my original assumptions were correct. Littelfuse or any other properly rated fuse from a "standard" manufacturer provide all the fusing you need as fuse... |