wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| tubesforhifi VTA sp14 or shiit freya The Freya gets criticism simply for being too inexpensive (and a wide range of other opinions it seems, none I've found that really relate to my experience with it, except bright LEDs), and as I’ve never heard one of the well regarded Sachs preamp... | |
| HAVE ALL SALES STOPPED ON AUDIOGON ??? I had some beautiful speakers on Ebay for months with nearly zero offers...put 'em here and they sold in a week. Hipper crowd. | |
| Value of burn/break in? I'm breaking in two new things...a Pangea wall plug and a new belt for my Linn table. The wall plug's most important job is to power a REL sub, which it did right off the bat with zero break-in. Amazing. The Linn belt also seems to accomplish the ... | |
| Line Magnetic 518ia - How Much Heat Does It Produce? Can the tube cover be removed from the 1000? I wondered about that when I considered replacing a great sounding Jolida 502P I used for 5 or 6 years...I went in the direction of the single ended Had amp, but have nothing but respect for modern Joli... | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? My point about listening remains accurate...I'm a professional listener as a live sound mixer and musician, which doesn't mean I have better hearing, it simply means that after decades of experience I know how and what to listen for. Not everybody... | |
| Line Magnetic 518ia - How Much Heat Does It Produce? My little Dennis Had Firebottle HO (it's a HO...says so right there) has only 4 tubes and ties you to efficient speakers for ultimate enjoyment (it's a 12WPC class A SEP meaning Serious Enjoyment Product), so there's that. However, it runs hot as ... | |
| New to this. How do I stack my stuff? A block of ice makes an ideal amp stand but unfortunately it melts almost immediately rendering it less than ideal. | |
| New Tweak --- Its Fantastic If you define "getting along with others" as accepting nonsense as fact and following that line by joining a flock of subservient sheep incapable of critical thinking, you're the problem. Shill away papa, and keep hoping your misplaced commercial... | |
| DO CABLES REALLY MATTER? A skilled lister is anyone with intact hearing? Nonsense...skills are developed over time, being able to hear doesn’t mean you’re a "skilled listener" anymore than having hands makes you a skilled painter. Well designed cables don’t have to be exp... | |
| New to this. How do I stack my stuff? I've been using Vibrapods (and another rubbery set of footers the brand of which I don't remember) under all my gear for years with excellent results, and they certainly do not render the sound "less lively." In a simple, somewhat "non audiophile"... | |
| New Tweak --- Its Fantastic I have no dilemma, and I have a right to object to public displays of nonsense and commercial shilling, and I also have a right to respond to posts directed at me...you may want to try to understand what "public forum" means. | |
| Does anyone have any experience of hybrid valve and solid state power amps? Vincent makes various hybrid amps and I assume they all work, and I've listened extensively to my friend's SV236 integrated and it's very clean and musical. | |
| New Tweak --- Its Fantastic Grannyring...I haven't "bought into" thinking that religious mythology and superstition are silly, it's simply that to anybody over the age of 5 or so they should be considered as such...If you think that sort of thinking is lazy you're weirdly mi... | |
| Speakers for aging audiophiles - What's with today bass emphasis ? All recordings differ in some way (statement of the obvious # 1,324,587), including the jazz stuff I listen to primarily. I turn my subs up or down a little if something is too bass heavy, and eschew DSP as it seem to suck the mojo out of recordin... | |
| Tube Preamp I'm using NOS Sylvania 6SN7GTB "chrome domes" in the Freya (one pair is a Philco made by Sylvania...identical innards) and the sound is superb. They're not expensive, and I simply go with Dennis Had's recommendation of using NOS stuff if available... |