wolf_garcia
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| Stereo EQ in the hifi world ...? I don't like digital EQ at all in my hifi system, as these things just add unnecessary junk into the mix and my ego doesn't allow me to trust whoever decided the filter parameters, and I think a great sounding system should start by sounding great... | |
| Synergistic Research Cables How about 1000 cookie cutter SR approval rants? SR supporters are a cult sort of like a religion but more expensive and containing more mythology. | |
| WHY DO SOME AUDIOPHILES THINK YOU ARE BRAGGING WHEN YOU ARE SHARING? I'm actually bragging so people will think I'm cool, and generally it's from the "I buy used and new stuff for less money from research and dumb luck" school of bragging. Nobody thinks I'm cool though, so I'm planning to drop more names, mention h... | |
| Stereo EQ in the hifi world ...? I've used all sorts of equalizers over the decades and have an SAE in my basement someplace...I use a little two channel graphic EQ in a live mixing rack, and some parametric EQ, but otherwise haven't used one in my hifi rack for decades because h... | |
| Total cost of ownership - how to reduce it I'm into buying things that aren't expensive but well regarded anyway...my factory modded Jolida 502P was bought new after looking everywhere and reading everything I could find about it, and it was inexpensive relative to anything in its performa... | |
| How to connect a subwoofer into a mono block system The "pressurized room" thing actually is the "natural" state of sound and should be respected as a matter of degree of course...the low frequencies you hear as a part of the sort of "room sound" in live music anywhere seems to be the mojo missing ... | |
| SPEAKERS JUMPER CABLES I disagree with the "bad jumpers from manufacturers" statements...Alan Yun from Silverline said his jumpers, which came with my Prelude speakers, were excellent, and he also said Preludes sound better when not bi-wired...I made some jumpers from s... | |
| Krell Owners: Is XLR really superior to RCA? Short-ish runs of single ended well designed cables work fine, but I generally use balanced if it's possible...my DAC has a balanced out to my preamp, but no balanced ins to my amp so no choice there...it still sounds great, no noise, no hum, no n... | |
| WHY DO SOME AUDIOPHILES THINK YOU ARE BRAGGING WHEN YOU ARE SHARING? If you won the lottery, you would likely have an issue that most lottery winners (who weren't wealthy already) have...you stop enjoying the simple things like active "present" enjoyment of an audio system...you immediately are deluged with request... | |
| Stereo EQ in the hifi world ...? I use the same Morrow (new version) cables in and out of the Loki to provide a sense of uniformity and because they look cool...that's important...everybody admires them (actually, absolutely nobody I know cares). | |
| SET v. Pushpull I’ve owned many amps...from an Electron Kinetics Eagle to an Acurus A250...Forte Model 55, etc...all great sounding. Just before the Had amp I was using a factory modded tube Jolida 502p which also sounded great. Just all fun all the time...I beca... | |
| Stereo EQ in the hifi world ...? An example of Loki usefulness is illustrated by one of my fave albums from the 70s, Little Feat's "The Last Record Album." Lacks sparkle for some reason, but boosting via the Loki 8kHz frequencies just makes it shine... | |
| Speakers for First Watt SIT-1 amp 8ohm 99 db Klipsch Heresy IIIs...best 1500 bucks I've ever spent, they sound sublime (and un-congested) with my little SE tube amp and a couple of RELs. Besides, they're from Klipsch so there's zero snobbery as you can say they belonged to your de... | |
| Speakers for a very large room? I don't get the "large room" speaker thing unless dancing is involved. Where are you planning to position your listening spot? Back near the door to the Butler pantry? Large Magnapans also make great screens for quick costume changes, so there's t... | |
| Stereo EQ in the hifi world ...? Note that the 20Hz and 8kHz knobs have a +/-12 db range and the 400hz and 2kHz middle knobs have a +/-6 db range...I think the 8kHz sweep covers the treble edginess issue just fine (each eq range is centered but gets fairly wide as you increase or... |