wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| Zu def 4 are they the best speaker made? Ears SCHMEARS! Zu makes the best speakers and everybody knows it…they might not sound better, or look better, or fell better (!), but hey…they're the best. | |
| REL Vs SVS for 2 channel music listening Exotic pebbles! Not sure how room treatments add bass…add a tuned tunnel to your room? Also the word "quality" needs a qualifier like "good" or "mediocre" or "smelly." | |
| Hum!! Here’s a lovely story for post holiday enjoyment: A hum appeared in both my subs, which are RELs connected to a single ended amp (Inspire Fire Bottle HO) with Canare wire attached to largish spades to combine the cables…works great. I take the cab... | |
| Are my " diamond " tweeters really diamond Really? Even the plasma flame gas bags? | |
| Rogue Cronus Magnum II, but I have depth constraints.. Constantly impressed by the high quality or low quality? Middle quality? I've been impressed with Jolida amps (at least the one I used for years) as a low cost alternative to other stuff…plus the Jolida dudes in MD are nice to talk to. Tubuler. | |
| Vintage Onkyo gear vs Adcom I've owned a few 535s over the years and they all worked swimmingly, especially the 2nd version with normal binding posts. Later I was deciding which one to keep having bought a used 5300 (85 watts per side into 8 ohms) which is often ignored as a... | |
| Are my " diamond " tweeters really diamond Warning: Diamond tweeters can be the worst engagement token ever…regardless of how well your fiancé tolerates your audio hobby you can get those utterly misunderstood, and you look like a jerk on the Jumbotron. I also agree that the diamond coated... | |
| Why so little none impressions on Focal Maestro? The last time I paid 50 grand for 250 lbs of anything involved a weird weekend in Acapulco with a couple of middle aged Latvian sisters…it was sort of worth it, but not unlike this thread, I was left whining about value... | |
| New system has fatiguing, harsh high frequency sounds. How to fix? I've found that the stuff the tweeter is made of is less important than how it's implemented by the designer…soft domes can sound harsh, metal domes smooth, etc. Also in the supplied pic you're very close to the speakers (and everything else{ so I... | |
| high-efficiency loudspeakers I prefer 10 foot wide burl wood horns with dual 30 inch woofers powered by a .127 watt vintage telephone amp….cloth covered wire from 1918…sounds awful but looks nice. | |
| Speaker distance Speakers on ends of long hallway 37 feet apart with listening position on a Viennese Hassock between them in what basically is a tunnel covered with animal trophy heads with hissing gaslights and locked shoji doors. Great for those shoe gaze part... | |
| Zu def 4 are they the best speaker made? I agree that the ZUs are the best speaker made. I’ve never heard them myself, I agree as someone who owns bass speakers and other full range drivers (mostly in boxes for for electric guitar or bass duty) that these things seem pricey for what they... | |
| Recommendations for a phono amp I use a Cambridge 640P with Pangea P100 power supply (those were offered by Audio Advisor as a Peter Madnick designed thing just for the DacMagic and the 640P), and it's a giant killer with in this combination. I haven't tried it with a MC cartrid... | |
| Tubes In my Jolida 502P (a GREAT amp sold recently as I switched to a single ended thing) I used GL 12AX7s and they were great…for 12AT7s I used NOS Mullard 6201s or 4024s which I really liked…and they flash on start up which is a bonus and a crowd plea... | |
| Musician vs. audiophile Working musicians likely can't afford Wilsons…so there's that. I work with various musicians in my live sound mixer sideline, and have known plenty of 'em as I've been a professional musician for over 5 decades, and I'm not deaf…yet…most don't inv... |