wolf_garcia
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| Audioquest Slate biwire vs Audioquest GBC single wire I found a 10' set of new Rocket 33s relatively cheap on Ebay after a chance meeting with Bill Low at a shop...I was using Type 8 that I'd made into a biwire cable, and he pointed out the advantages of the "magnetic isolation" of Rockets...he was r... | |
| Morrow Audio re-design announcement: No more Ag coated Cu; Increased numbers of runs. I traded my old version MA1s (2 pairs) for the new version...cost with discounts was about 50 bucks, a laughably small expense driven by curiosity only as I liked the old version's sound. After about 100 hours on the new cables they sound great...... | |
| Does anyone think a U-turn Orbit turntable a good entry level choice?... Or not? A great company actually nearby (I live in the Boston area burbs)...I know people who own these things and they seem like a well made, reasonably priced table that works very well. | |
| Bookshelf + sub vs. floorstanding It's actually very easy to get great sound from a sub or two, so don't pay much attention to anybody saying otherwise. Use subs that take the signal from the amp, like RELs or Vandys , and simply move the sub around and adjust the level. Not as he... | |
| Klipsch Forte III--Pleasantly Surprised Jbhiller...yes I did dampen the things if only to get mrdecibel off my back! It was interesting as I'd never used Dynamat before and the operation does make sense...I'm always up for logical and inexpensive tweaks, especially if reversible which t... | |
| Klipsch Forte III--Pleasantly Surprised Mrdecibel: You gave me no choice in the damping thing, so I expect you to issue an apology to my wife as I gummed up her favorite scissors...they got un-gummed...still...took some "splainin'". The term "detained" means they are held in my listenin... | |
| Klipsch Forte III--Pleasantly Surprised The Heresy III horn damping process is interesting, and worth it if only to make mrdecibel happy depending of course on how important his happiness is to you. They do sound somewhat smoother, and I should have done an A/B test before damping the s... | |
| Klipsch Heresy III vs Forte III They are similar, but auditioning only gets you so far unless you bring along a truck with an exact replica of your home listening space. I bought the Heresy IIIs still not knowing how they were going to sound with my stuff, not knowing what break... | |
| Klipsch Heresy III vs Forte III I listened to both and although the Forte sounded fine I bought the Heresy IIIs which are great sounding, much less expensive, a considerably smaller speaker, and do sound very substantial in my medium largish room using a 12wpc SEP amp. You do ne... | |
| How much? I still do important things...I just put new strings on a guitar, the motorcycle won't ride itself! And my medicare pays for the gym membership so I gotta go at least 3 times a week...I have spent a lot of time recently listening to my cables brea... | |
| klipsch speakers,be honest Voice of many theaters, and I have no idea what Klipschorns sounded like then (or currently) as nobody I knew had them. The pro version of the Klipsch apparently had the tweeter, which could have helped the Altecs somewhat maybe...the A7s were ver... | |
| I pulled the trigger, I bought OHM Walsh Micro Tall Speakers... OH MY GOD NO...DON'T DO IT...too late. To answer your question, 48 Primaluna watts equals 49 regular watts...everybody knows this so yes, that was a dumb question! Actually, if I may be serious for a moment, watts are watts, and tubes (which I ado... | |
| How much? I have specific background music needs for my morning newspaper reading (classical piano works), and that changes to serious listening here and there throughout the day and night...I turn off the tube amps when out...so my rig gets some serious ti... | |
| Serious Passive Preamp question I'd never owned a passive preamp until the Schiit Freya came along...the passive option is interesting, but the tube stage has the gain my single ended amp needs. The output switching feature in this preamp seems most useful (to me anyway) as a wa... | |
| First Watt J2 Get an SIT3...4 grand and it's yours! Note those supposedly work best with 4 to 8 ohm speakers. |