wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| Happy Thanksgiving to all members , enjoy the holiday Instead of prayers, donate some cash to the displaced as that actually helps. | |
| Discontinued equipment that you wish were still here. What do you miss or think will miss? I don't miss tone controls at all, especially since my amazingly good Schiit Loki arrived. I do miss the days before imaginary Magic tweaks arrived...was there less baloney back in the day or am I imagining things? (where am I? I'm frightened...oh... | |
| Stereophile Magazine question. If you're wound too tight for Stereophile, well, perhaps you need to get out more. | |
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? I was an early adopter of the Loki EQ...don't use it much as I like to keep signals as clean as possible, but when I do use the thing it's great. The adjustment sweep is sort of "front loaded" meaning they do their thing with larger effect initial... | |
| Looking to get into tubes on the cheap Schiit also makes the Saga tube preamp with remote for 350 bucks or so. Gets rave reviews... | |
| Talk but not walk? "Elizabeth enters Church Lady Territory," details at 11. | |
| What are fuses used for? No offense taken there Kaitty as my skills come from over 5 decades of on the job experience as a working musician with no time for whatever Acoustic Engineering School might offer. My experience of working with those having been "trained" varies ... | |
| Turning off tube preamp first sends solid state amp into protection? Always turn the preamp on first and off last, although with many modern systems it might not matter much...but that's been the conventional wisdom for a while. | |
| Used audiophile preamp Schiit Freya...an amazing preamp for peanuts. | |
| What are fuses used for? Some crafty manufacturers found that by claiming a lot of nonsense about Special fuses made with beeswax or silly pseudo science, with very little rational explanation of why they could make this magic: "New UEF Graphene coating, two years in deve... | |
| What are fuses used for? I tested some "premium" fuses a while back after disputing the insane hyperbole attached to them by a few shameless salespeople...I figured it would be interesting and I had access to a pile of 'em...I found them to be absolutely useless relative ... | |
| Anyone with experience with the effectiveness of the AVA HUMDINGER? A PS Audio Humbuster III works for me...could be hard to find, but maybe worth a search. | |
| Speakers positionning Unless your room is exactly like mine, with speakers exactly like mine, and you have managed to obtain my specific taste regarding the sound from my carefully thought out speaker placement, any suggestions from me are useless...mostly...but a good... | |
| Optimal high impedance speaker Devores? Pricey, but cool. | |
| I need a subwoofer/sub-bass opinion from you I use 2 RELs bought cheaply from Ebay at different times (200 bucks each..a score!), and they are way more than enough bass for my medium-largish room with Heresy IIIs. Run from the speaker outputs like they should be, using a 12wpc little single ... |