wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| Preamp under $2,000 used To correct Georgehifi slightly…the Freya has 5 inputs, 2 balanced and 3 single ended, and 3 outputs, 2 single ended and one balanced. I've had one for 6 months or so and think it's sort of amazing, and really there's nothing quite like it out ther... | |
| Two Type of sound and listener preference are there more? I'll revise my response…there's everybody else and me. Here's a weird thing…in the 70s I was vacationing in L.A. and got to hang out a little bit one afternoon in a studio where Glynn Johns was mixing something...I didn't stay long because the pla... | |
| Suitable affordable speakers for Cary Cad 805AE I've had great luck with a new pair of Klipsch Heresy IIIs using a Dennis Had 12 watt per side SEP amp. After using them for a few months I've come to realize how well they respond to being driven by high quality gear, and that they are great soun... | |
| Are your amp comparison’s level adjusted? I've used the Audio Tools meter on my iPhone to test things…works great. | |
| Jolida Integrated or Rogue Integrated MAgnus Cronus II When I was first considering a Jolida amp I spent time on the phone with Michael Allen who started Jolida, as well as discussing the upgrades and other stuff with various people at Jolida MD. I'm surprised they didn't get a restraining order. | |
| most advanced speaker in a rectangular wooden box? I'd like to see Klipsch tuning the Heresy box with a port (likely requiring a different bass driver), and putting the mid and treble horns on top of the box as it would provide sort of a steam punk vibe…of course, then it wouldn't be a Heresy anym... | |
| Jolida Integrated or Rogue Integrated MAgnus Cronus II I keep raving about my Jolida 502P although I sold it when I became snared by the insidious world of low watt single endedness where I remain. However, that pesky "factory upgraded for about 100 bucks" Jolida was great fun for years, ran perfectly... | |
| Help me please!!! I think the Dartzeel stuff looks cooler. Get that one. | |
| Inexpensive Tube Amps I owned a Jolida 502P for years and only replaced it as I became interested in Dennis Had's little hand made amps. But the Joilida was amazing for less money than any comparable tube amp out there when I was shopping around, but was sorted (and ha... | |
| Shiit Loki Since I haven't unplugged the Loki since I bought it I used my trusty iPhone "Sound Tools" level meter today to see if the Loki had any effect in the system level just by being there…using both music and test tones it seems it doesn't, or at least... | |
| most advanced speaker in a rectangular wooden box? Schiit Freya preamp with Sylvania "chrome domes" and Tung Sols, Dennis Had Firebottle HO SEP amp with KT120s, Amperex 6SN7GTB, and a Shuguang 274B rectifier, Morrow and AQ ICs and AQ Rocket biwire speaker cables…and a Schiit Loki between the pre a... | |
| most advanced speaker in a rectangular wooden box? Perhaps perceived as too old fashioned for some, I've been pleasantly surprised at how astonishingly good my recently acquired Klpisch Heresy IIIs sound with a pair of subs. Updated here and there, but they get the "Been Around a While" award for ... | |
| REL Vs SVS for 2 channel music listening RELs and another well made subs "charge the room" somehow and that makes things sound more real…but certainly the pebbles would be useful, especially in the bottom of an aquarium. Also, bass does improve you masculinity, and makes you slightly tal... | |
| Tube Preamps..... Another note on the Freya...it's much less expensive than many of the preamps noted here (about half the cost of the least expensive others noted), has more inputs both single ended and balanced with balanced outputs, and it has the cool 3 way pas... | |
| speakers with balls Steve Guttenberg tested the new-ish Forte III and concluded that although it didn't outperform his reference stuff in detail or something, it outperformed them all when playing things loud. There ya' go. |