wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| Audiogon member suggestions for a speaker that sounds good at low volume!!! A speaker with elevated highs and bass wouldn't sound so great at normal levels...no free lunch! The "Fletcher-Munson" issue is unavoidable as it’s a reality of human hearing. I have Klipsch Heresy IIIs that work better than some at low levels, b... | |
| What unknown musical artist would you like to share with your fellow audiophiles? I've worked with 2 current Telecaster geniuses, Julian Lage and Jim Campilongo, neither of whom are well known really except to anybody who has heard them play. Lage turned to Telecasters after years with hollow bodied jazz boxes and acoustic guit... | |
| What unknown musical artist would you like to share with your fellow audiophiles? I’ve worked with many astonishing musicians I otherwise would never have heard of (live sound mixing, not booking the artists), and one worth mentioning is a fave, Anais Mitchell...did some shows with her over the years and recently saw her again ... | |
| Need Advice on Amp Audition at a Dealers I think bringing a "comedy stunt" amp that sparks and smokes a little would be hilarious. | |
| Sound Quality of red book CDs vs.streaming Ever have the "stream" go down due to internet provider issues? Also, it may be some strain of Luddite in my head, but I also am not into yelling commands at a little gizmo sending my privacy out into the clouds...my streamer is deaf, and my CDs a... | |
| The Future of Audio Amplification Luckily the tube amp industry is alive and well, and should be thriving for many years to come...If I'm fooling myself by enjoying a tube preamp, a single ended tube power amp, and efficient horn speakers, regardless of the specs (I honestly don't... | |
| I want to pick up a vintage SS integrated People certainly were intimidated by my KLH Model 26 compact system...Pickering cartridge with the little brush on the front, massive 16 or 20 or something watts (did a search on the specs and couldn't find anything). However, running the speaker... | |
| klipsch speakers,be honest The Heresy IIIs are generally dismissed by people who haven't heard them with good ancillary gear, or had the older models 40 years ago. The only caveat is possibly the need for a sub with these as that makes 'em open up and really shine, but the ... | |
| Skeptic or just plain hard headed Based on my possibly utterly inaccurate tracking of the break-in time of a pair of Morrow cables I received in late September (or late to mid September, or late mid September), these might have reached their break-in peak moment without my noticin... | |
| Passive preamp to a power amp? The Schiit Freya is also relatively inexpensive and can be switched between 3 modes, with the passive and FET being nearly identical and the tube stage being more fun (and higher gain), and the attenuator has 128 clicking little steps. It's more o... | |
| Speakers near fireplace My main speakers (as opposed to the two subs) flank a gas fireplace and are far enough into the room they're not affected in any way by the fireplace. The side walls are far enough away also so the room (largish with a tall sloping ceiling) sounds... | |
| The Future of Audio Amplification The esthetic beauty of tubes is appealing to many (and deemed silly to others), and with modern technological improvements accumulated over a century or so of refinement, tube amps are currently good enough to still be considered among the best so... | |
| Could I be a Retail Wretch? Not sure if they still do this, but Guitar Center had a computer station designated for shoppers to look up pricing on line (only new stuff) to compare it to their pricing of the same item, and if you found something for less, even if it was "sale... | |
| Affordable integrated pure class A? There's a Dennis Had Firebottle HO amp for sale on Audiogon...or was last I checked...add a Schiit Saga and you have an astonishing little rig for cheap...efficient speakers should be used, or just sit real close to the system. | |
| Affordable integrated pure class A? Generally, a class A/B all tube amp sounds far better than most SS amps for comparable money, and one with Pentode/Triode switching will generally sound even better than that, and there are a lot of options for those including relatively inexpensi... |