wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| why go against REL setup recommendation? The most useful recommendation from REL is the level...if you do stick one in a corner just don't crank it up. The "sub bass" description of RELs is silly...they invented this term for reasons unknown as these things work EXACTLY like every other ... | |
| How are you hearing no difference? I've bought stuff assuming it would sound great and been disappointed (rare, but some recent well regarded speakers failed me), but have also been very surprised here and there...my current fave SE tube amp...some Schiit items...efficient horn spe... | |
| My first Tube Amplifier Pretty sure that thing was a Marantz...certainly not a McIntosh...I remember it was absolutely tubed. Marshall Majors were pretty rare I think...a local (Honolulu) sound company had one and that's the only one I ever saw. | |
| My first Tube Amplifier Early (pre "CBS") blonde Bandmasters and Showman amps were great...I used that amp head for live shows with various speakers here and there for a long time...worked great with a Marshall 412 cabinet. I moved on to smaller amps eventually, now pref... | |
| My first Tube Amplifier My first was a 1961 Fender Bandmaster (belonged to my cousin originally) followed by a Magnatone and many, many others from Marshall, Boogie, Hiwatt, a couple of Twin Reverbs, etc. My first stereo tube amp was a Marantz tubed receiver in maybe 197... | |
| Need help picking PreAmp Get a Schiit Freya tube preamp as it's one of the most interestingly designed preamps to come along in years, and for what it does is also far less expensive than anything else out there...made in USA and sounds great. | |
| Hendrix 50th Anniversary Electric Ladyland Box Release I had the original euro version with the far more interesting cover. No idea where that album went, but having seen the Hendrix Experience in 1967 and meeting Jimi in ’69 (Mitch stopped by a club we were playing in ’69 and sat in with us...an asto... | |
| Can I run a preamp through a guitar amp? I record with mics also, as the speaker tone is a big part of the mojo. | |
| Gold Lion KT77 tubes for Primaluna Amp - a few questions My KT77s came from a reputable Ebay dealer, and were supposedly "factory matched." They're the best sounding tube I've tried in my SE power amp (only 1 single ended power tube per side), and that list includes KT88s from Sovtek and Gold Lion, Tung... | |
| power cables with drains If the cable is in the room with the speakers, its going to vibrate. Think about the poor cables INSIDE the speaker boxes...no toilet paper roll will save them! The only benefit to raising cables is it's easier to vacuum under them, but you have t... | |
| Turntable Pre-Echo Sound....? Man...another time jump thread...I get that pre-echo stuff on my rig and it really doesn't seem to have an audible effect on the "proper" musical bits, although logic dictates it should. | |
| REL subwoofer what Speakonl cable do you recommend I've used Neutrik Speakon connectors for many years, and with my 2 RELs I made cables from Canare Star Quad wire as you can cram the wire into the Speakon connector. | |
| Harbeth 40.2 and REL SUBWOOFER really killer combo RELs are great, and I made cables from Canare Star Quad as you can cram the stranded cable into a Neutrik Speakon plug. | |
| Horns: Why don't they image well? I'm not sure what acoustic advantage a loft with 16 foot ceilings would provide, unless you got to keep some rugs, wall hangings, and soft furniture after the divorce. | |
| Can I run a preamp through a guitar amp? You can run anything INTO a guitar amp, just don’t put a SPEAKER output from a guitar amp back into your preamp. Some tube guitar amps do have a speaker muting "recording" output that you can actually run into anything you wish. I have a Burriss t... |