wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| Cary vs Raven If you have the patience to wait for Dennis Had to post another of his hand made amps (or get a used one like I did) that is a choice I can whole heartedly recommend. I've used mine with Heresy IIIs for years and it's astonishingly good. | |
| Why do we demand so much from our systems? What's with this "we" stuff? I've enjoyed every single audio setup I've ever had and have improved the quality of all of it over many decades for FUN. I'm certain many other of the somewhat less tightly wound among us feel the same. If I'm trying ... | |
| I took Frank Zappa’s advice He employed many great musicians to play what, for me anyway, is mostly pretentious, sexist, unlistenable music that seems to lack any soul. What I call the "I wrote it so it must be good" school of thought. I really liked Zappa anyway. His biogra... | |
| What affects front to back depth in room/ system? Note that unless you've never actually owned a stereo system or you have no faith in your own taste, the proper setup is what sounds best to YOU. | |
| What affects front to back depth in room/ system? Reverb and delay add reverb and delay, and not depth particularly in my experience. Maybe an illusion is enough, but level is key and burying an instrument in reverb tends to obscure its position in the mix more than accent it. Listen to the infam... | |
| What affects front to back depth in room/ system? Soundstage depth is accomplished by a recording mixer by using relative volume level adjustments on isolated or semi-isolated instruments, and width is from panning from the middle outwards. That's it. Vibration controlling silliness or room refle... | |
| Seeking Legit Cartridge Expert? Sorry but "legit" and "cartridge expert" may be mutually exclusive. | |
| Good Speakers for Rock and Roll Under 15K Well designed speakers can play any genre of music...if you think Mahler is somehow less dynamic than Megadeath you need to get out more. | |
| Using PA Speakers In A Home "Audiophile" Application! I always run PA systems in mono sometimes with a little stereo reverb to make people think they’re having more fun, and the soundcheck stereo thing is for my own amusement...if you mixed an act in stereo, even relatively small venues, people on th... | |
| can subwoofers make things worse? It’s not just subs reproducing otherwise unheard bass that exists in recordings (and all around us generally), it’s the effect of adding realism and sort of "charging" the room with a more genuine ambience. Even recordings without many really low ... | |
| Lowest priced MC thats better than a Premium MM? I use an Ortofon Quintet Blue MC...best 500 bucks I've ever spent on an audio item. | |
| Using PA Speakers In A Home "Audiophile" Application! I’m a pro concert sound "person" (!), and a long time pro musician. Most home listening areas won’t abide Clair Brothers boxes or even La Scalas, but I use a pair of original series Mackie 350s (10" woofer) with a 92 lb Mackie woofer in my music s... | |
| Help needed to eliminate unwanted noise from tweeter Don't tolerate noise...keep at it until it's gone. I use a Bryston conditioner and various noise eliminating power supplies along with worsening deafness, although that last one I don't recommend although, hey, it works for me! What? What was that? | |
| DAC upgrade The Schiit Bifrost 2/64 is amazingly good, but possibly not expensive enough for this discussion. | |
| Ripping CDs I like ripping CDs from my new CD player into my brain, followed by putting the ripped CD back on the shelf. There is some loss due to my weak-ish brain, but amazingly I can just put the CD back in the CD player and listen to it again thus letting... |