wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| Sub-Woofer? I've become a 2 sub dude (subdude?) after touting the fact that one sub is fine, which it is. Now I think 2 is better, and I have to stop there as more would clog up my speaker posts (using REL high level connections only). | |
| Shiit Loki The reported "improvements", or at least effects on the system, are happening when the thing is being used…I’m not sure if anybody has reported benefits from it just being there in bypass mode. I haven’t noticed any effect on my rig at all when it... | |
| Tube Preamps..... Note that the only serious issue with a Freya is the fact that you could become obsessed with 6SN7 tube types…my SE power amp also has one of these (a NOS Amperex), so I seem to now have a tube collecting problem with the Freya original 6N8S tubes... | |
| Tube Preamps..... The Schiit Freya is maybe a giant killer of a tube preamp, and it's so cheap you could add an astonishingly great DAC and stay in that budget. | |
| EL34 tubes- alternates to matched octet for Primaluna HP dialogue premium NOS preamp tubes are often affordable and I like 'em, but with power tubes I prefer the new stuff. I've used new Gold Lion KT88s and various Tung Sols including KT120s and 150s, and they all work well, sound great, and came with warranties. | |
| Evaluating a system - what do you listen for? If you have a relatively accurate home system it's going to reveal good and bad things, including what the recording engineer did with the pan pots on the mixing board. One of my pet peeves (which I can ignore if I like the music) is the "20 foot ... | |
| Need tube preamp recommendations please With the amazingly good sounding Schiit Freya (had mine in the rig about 4 months) there is a gigantic difference between the very similar sounding passive and FET settings and the tube stage. Not only a huge gain difference with the tube stage, b... | |
| Shiit Loki The fact that it's single ended seems to be its only "non starter" issue and that's for people who have balanced preamp to amp cables, and if anybody can hear when it's in or out of the system (assuming none of its knobs have turned) I'd be surpri... | |
| Sub-Woofer? If you're patient you can score a great REL used. I bought a Q150e for 200 bucks (in great shape about 5 years ago maybe) then a little later found a minty Q108II also for 200 bucks. I doubt newer RELs sound any better than these things, but I hav... | |
| Opinions on Cary CAD120s MK2 Anthony Cordesman did a review of that amp in The Absolute Sound…he really liked the thing. | |
| Flash from power tube This is ruining my desire to obtain a set of "winged C" tubes, although there might be some fun in waiting for them to explode…move the furniture away from the amp and get the extinguisher ready. | |
| Gotta love Nelson Pass Here ya go George: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLQsEeBKg1E | |
| Gotta love Nelson Pass I've owned Adcom and Forte amps that at least were related to Pass, and have always been impressed by his style and the sharing info thing…cool…I've also noticed few (or any? Paul McGowan maybe, although I'm not sure he puts them in anything) seri... | |
| Flash from power tube There is no guaranty of longevity unless there is one from wherever you buy tubes, and that applies to NOS and new tubes. The only tube I've had explode in recent years was a NOS Phillips 12AT7 in a previous amp (a Jolida actually) and luckily I w... | |
| New Tweak --- Its Fantastic Teleportation tweak? Now we're talkin'! |