wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| Subwoofer Stock Power Cord ... Go Figure I had a similar experience with my REL subs…I use a PS Audio "garden hose" thickness AC cable on one sub, and the other uses the supplied thinner cord with a magnetic anti hum thing as part of it. I've swapped these, and they don't seem to have an... | |
| Rectifier Hum The hum is very low, inaudible mostly but I can feel it when I touch the sub driver…with its permission of course. | |
| Rectifier Hum When the amp showed up with the JJ 5Y3S (10 months or so ago) I thought it was surprisingly quiet, and I had tested the subsonic noise by simply touching one of my sub's driver cones…then more recently I noticed the audible low noise and sure enou... | |
| Bi Wiring for speakers question I was hanging out in a local audio "salon" talking about cables when a dude at the shop pointed out that Bill Low (Audioquest honcho) was standing right behind me. HA…I told him I’d recently been using his Type 8 that I’d terminated as a biwire ca... | |
| Quincy Jones Interview You have to compare early Beatles to what was going on at the time, and as a band in the early days they had honed themselves into a kick ass live act by playing out in clubs (Hamburg). Not everybody, when given good production and opportunity, co... | |
| Which Budget Speakers, Tekton or Omega? I recently bought a pair of new Klipsch Heresy IIIs which seemed to meet my efficiency needs, which they do. Having used various "tower" speakers for decades it's interesting to have these things on the floor with their slanted little "stand" (I h... | |
| Need passive aggressive advice What’s a (an) "I bypass?" | |
| Rectifier Hum By the way, this is a new issue as previously with any of the rectifiers mentioned the amp was utterly quiet with zero pesky extra low bass noise. So something wearing out makes sense, and note the 274b remains utterly silent…the plot thickens! | |
| Terminating Cables I like solid core for most things but do use a stranded Canare Star Quad cable for my subs, requiring simply sticking the bare wire into a set of Audioquest "consumer friendly" (!) spades and tightening the screws so all the little strands are ha... | |
| Need passive aggressive advice I recently replaced my preamp with a new Schiit Freya that has 3 options: Passive, FET, and tube. The passive and FET sound alike (with short cables anyway), the tube stage has so much more gain it's a hard comparison, but the tubes seem to have m... | |
| Be Careful! The latest Audioquest anti static vinyl cleaning brush uses the user as a ground, which I think is a bold use of the consumer as a participant in an audio issue remedy…this might be illegal in some states, but I use one anyway but store the little... | |
| Rectifier Hum The most mystifying thing is the fact that the 274b tube is dead quiet (no low hum) relative to the other tubes mentioned. But I soldier on…I'll report whatever Had says when and if he responds. | |
| Rectifier Hum I'd be surprised if it has a solid state device anywhere, but that's interesting!…and the issue is a new one for this amp so it remains a mystery...I did send off for another 274b to have as a backup. | |
| Be Careful! Simply drag a large chunk of meat around attached to you by a brass cable. Problem solved. | |
| Rectifier Hum I did and haven't heard anything yet. |