wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| SPEAKER CABLE OR INTERCONNECT I have longish speaker cable requirements caused by amp placement necessities, and I've used various brands of cables over the years...recently decided to try the recently upgraded Kimber 8PR that gets to 10awg at the posts...a GREAT and relativel... | |
| What if a high end speaker measures really badly? Efficiency is important to me as one of my amps (a class tube A SEP) has relatively low power...impedance is important, but the sound is really all that matters...and I'll never buy anything without auditioning unless it has a very fair return pol... | |
| Should we care if a piece of equipment comes from a pet-free, kid-free, smoke-free home? I never buy gear from migrant tribal people with camels due to all the sandy dust issues. Also, I can't deal with anybody who lives outdoors or owns ferrets. | |
| Andrew Singer Of "Sound by Singer" passed away yesterday Lyric is also an extinct NY joint that got some of my filthy lucre. | |
| Andrew Singer Of "Sound by Singer" passed away yesterday When I lived in CT I bought a lot of stuff from Singer. Great place. I doubt it was due to my Rolex...My Patek maybe? | |
| Music first or sound first? If I don't like some piece of music there's no audio rig that's gonna change that...I'll just not like it in higher fidelity...briefly...Conversely, if something is really great to my ears it can be coming from a crappy source and it's still great. | |
| Listening position/speaker position The only recent speaker position change I've made is from reading about the Wilson Loke sub (they apparently didn't know that Schiit audio had copped the Loki name first...although a different spelling of the same Norse rascal), where they recomme... | |
| How can I measure the noise on my AC mains with a 2ch oscilloscope? "Live Music" is full of phase anomalies, microphone differences, crowd murmurs and smells, bow rosin dust, insane sound technicians, a lack of sound technicians, balding head reflections, unseasoned wood flooring, drapery...all of which you can tr... | |
| Dickie Betts died earlier today at 80 years of age Betts had a rare thing among guitar players which was an instantly recognizable style. | |
| Long run XLR cables Truly transformer balanced ins and outs are what you really need for long balanced cables to do their thing...like in studio and PA stuff where you might go hundreds of feet, and I've also noticed over the years that better quality balanced cables... | |
| People complain about lack of bass, not enough mid range. Solution? My hifi room is "treated" by the stuff in it, thus allowing the "room sound" I prefer, and note the only "proper" speaker setup is the one that sounds best to you. I don’t think bi-amping is useful or necessary for home audio as to truly pull it o... | |
| Give Up on Bacch? Note that the players in studio recordings are only "standing" wherever the mixing engineer put them. In live recordings it's the same thing. | |
| No discussion about the Synergistic Pink fuse? I've tested Fancy Fuses (a while back) and noted that they do nothing to improve the sound of gear over a basic fuse, aren't provided by any manufacturer that I know of, can be rated improperly and blow for no reason (trust me) and generally are i... | |
| I see the issue with ABX blind testing My issue with having people over for blind testing is all the stumbling around and knocking things over. Otherwise it's great. | |
| Meeting up with members even where there is no sale Look for me at Axpona...I'm an old man with white hair. |