wolf_garcia
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| Tube pre amp The Freya uses 4 6SN7GTBs or equivalent, and with remote switching between 3 modes (passive, FET, and tube), balanced and single ended ins and outs, and an accurate low distortion 128 step relay attenuator, there remains nothing like it anywhere. | |
| What will become of my beloved CDs? I get that "analog" film is interesting, and I've had great photographers as friends forever, and a cousin who's sort of famous as a photographer and teacher. I do admire the art form of printing stuff in chemicals, and as Ansel Adams said (someth... | |
| What will become of my beloved CDs? Simply nonsense all around...Although actual film is certainly a quaint art form, if you bother to print digital photos they can stick around like any printed film can, and if you utilize safe and redundant storage you can save digital photos inst... | |
| Tube pre amp Vincent makes great and seemingly underrated stuff...until late last year I'd been using a Kavent S33 SS preamp which is a re-badged Vincent. Great sounding dual mono fully balanced preamp, but since I like tubes and have been using a Dennis Had S... | |
| What will become of my beloved CDs? An article in HI-Fi News recently (June issue) discussed an event introducing the new Magico A3 speakers, and Alon Wolf attended the festivities. He played all sorts of stuff from a computer, and all of it was at the "Red Book" standard...Wolf sai... | |
| Monitor Audio Platinum or Magico A3 Magicos wont rust, and are likely not going to float well, although the internal air to weight ratio may come into play. Note that the designer likes "red book" spec music, and so do I (although I don't expect anybody to care about what I like, Al... | |
| Speaker driver sizes - pros and cons I've had a pair of Silverline Prelude small towers for years, and they're punchy, coherent, sweet sounding things. 2 3.75" (!) woofers and a 1" tweeter in each rear ported cab, all drivers are magnesium/aluminum including the tweeter...I recently ... | |
| Aftermarket Fuses It's a fuse, and if it is functioning as designed, to protect the component, it will have zero impact on the tonality or performance of any audio component, regardless of what people think they hear in "premium" fuses. Standard Littelfuse products... | |
| Who makes the highest quality tube amps? If there's something built better than a Dennis Had Inspire amp, I'd be surprised. Hand built little gems at a fraction of the cost of Shindos or just about anything else of this quality...mine sounds astonishingly good, and recent ones (available... | |
| Annoying sounds from cars at stop light I rented a house in a quiet neighborhood in Honolulu during most of the 70s, and my band built a rehearsing room in the basement by covering the walls with plywood, sheetrock, and mattresses (!). Worked great, and one day some guy from a block or ... | |
| best FLEXIBLE cables Morrow's solid core seems somewhat more flexy than others, and I use Canare Star Quad for my REL subs...solid core stuff like my AQ speaker cables are stiffer by design (thicker or more runs of solid core) but flexibility seems irrelevant with spe... | |
| REL Subwoofer: Speakon or RCA? I've used Speakon stuff for years in pro audio so when I acquired a couple of RELs over the years I adopted their philosophy of the high level input for the reasons mentioned in audiobunker's post, and because I like Speakon Neutrik plugs...I mak... | |
| Pre for the Manley Snapper Get a Schiit Freya for 700 bucks and if it doesn't work send it back. | |
| Klipsch Forte IIIs vs. Heresy III with a sub I like tighter and more controllable bass which might be why I formed that opinion from an initial listen, plus I already had the subs subs that are very adjustable. The "new" mid horn has been accepted by Klipsch freaks as an improvement and I di... | |
| Klipsch Forte IIIs vs. Heresy III with a sub What? You ignored my advice? Wow man...and using your college kids to pressure your wife isn't even legal in most places. Unfortunately, you likely will enjoy your Forte IIIs for many years regardless of your crass self centered attitude clearly c... |