wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| At what price is one considered an Audiophile. The cost argument is silly. When I was in my late teens I got a KLH Model 20 compact system because I knew it simply sounded better than any other inexpensive system. It just did. That approach has served me well over the decades and continues wit... | |
| Tube Preamps Should Have This Feature Speaker coils? Hmmm...my Freya sounds great as soon as the tubes warm up and my Pass XA-25 takes maybe an hour or so but sounds so good immediately you sort of forget that. I wouldn’t think about that if Nelson hadn't mentioned it in the manual. I... | |
| System advice I sense a robot voice. I think the best way to read this is with an "Arnold" voice in your head. | |
| Rumors of CD Demise Exagerated? New Hegel A Schiit Urd is on my short list. | |
| Tube Preamps Should Have This Feature I have an original version Freya and have never worried about its warmup time and I listen to the tube section exclusively. I like the fact that it doesn't turn off the tubes when I switch to one of the passive settings as its a great way to see i... | |
| Question: What are some of your best pieces of advise to someone new to the hobby? You don't need to be an expert in acoustics to get good sound from reasonable components...read some audio magazines...and remember there's great sounding stuff out there these days that is not expensive and you should trust your ears. | |
| The use of digital pitch correction software on vocal recordings Notes of pitchyness? Has "American Idol Speak" invaded the lexicon? I'd say listen to any good singer and you will hear ZERO off pitch singing. | |
| The use of digital pitch correction software on vocal recordings The sound of pitch correction has become a "musical" style by itself, especially in Hippity Hop. I don't listen to pop music much at all except accidentally as I'm too into what I like (mostly jazz), although once in a while a decent band comes al... | |
| How do you add color? Two things stand out in this conversation...tubes can be removing information (where do they put it? In cheap capacitors?), and sequencers can add color. Sequencers? In my experience while living in the actual world it seems tubes can get more det... | |
| They know we will pay anything they can think of I think since you can't be taller or have better hair or be better looking, it's important to buy very expensive things and tell people about them as much as possible. Or, just go online and claim you have high end stuff so strangers will think yo... | |
| If you were serious about sound you would... I don’t believe in the deification of studio engineers, producers, or mastering technicians. Many are very good but plenty of recordings for whatever reason aren’t. Also, often live music is mixed badly so there’s that issue for your reference nee... | |
| Question about suitable fuse metals The "magic" fuse (or insane elimination of same) efficacy myth stands to live on through the high end expectation bias fog as long as there are people who say thing like, "the new fuse let me see the facial expressions of the musicians." The fuse ... | |
| Preamp for a GaN-FET amp... Is fear of tubes a mental health issue? Tubeophobia? Saying you don't want a tube preamp but you want something that sounds like tubes seems like a paradox. Tubes get too hot? You like to shoot BB guns at your hifi rig? You need to change them out... | |
| I saw the back of an integrated and it depressed me. What awaits in the 21st century won't include seafood (other than farm grown...maybe), most current waterfront towns, birds, smokeless air...brain implants? There will be fewer people so there's that. | |
| Upgrade from Bluesound Node I use a Bluesound 2i and not its DAC as I thought that thing sounded pretty bad immediately. A Schit Bifrost 2/64 does the job and sounds great. I'll try a better streamer someday maybe but this combo works so well I feel no pressing need to chang... |