wolf_garcia
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| Why is modern pop music today so terrible? I just read an article in the NY Times about the recent Newport Jazz Festival and it noted the presence of actual young people! Shocking! My daughter (she's 26) is into the EDM scene, has worked with promotion of that stuff, and it's all good. Dan... | |
| Why is modern pop music today so terrible? I've spent many years as part of the "unpopular" music business (a phrase coined by my friend Harvey Reid) as both a musician and concert producer/sound mixer. The brilliant singer/songwriters who work the small coffeehouse or club gigs can put ou... | |
| What sounds best: Vinyl or CDs When exactly will my vinyl, some I bought in the 60s, start to sound bad? | |
| 2017 amps - $10K to $15K who is on your short list? Dennis Had Inspire "Fire Bottle" or "Hot Rod" amps are hand made, sound astonishingly good (at least mine does, and I doubt I'll ever sell it) and cost a staggering 1500 bucks or so. Perhaps one of the best amps that is currently "sort of" availab... | |
| Lesson Learned Clearly, everybody should do what I do and have the same taste as I do. The fact that few or no people do is a disturbing mystery to me, and simply defies reason. For example: Why don't more women (or men, but really women) ride motorcycles? Why d... | |
| I know my tubes (VT100 mkII) are going when... Correction: Not "fear" reaching, simply "far" reaching, which, of course, it wasn't really. | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Adjusting fuses for directionality, although very likely a complete waste of time since fuses are a part of an alternating electricity flow (AC), could reveal a .000137% difference in something or other that you're not going to be able to notice u... | |
| I know my tubes (VT100 mkII) are going when... Thetubestore.com is a well run outfit and have taken tubes back from me when there were issues no problemo (once I guess, when a NOS preamp tube committed tubicide). Highly recommended. Signal tubes can last a long time but hey…swapping out tubes ... | |
| Shindo Labs Amps and Preamps 7 to 8 thousand bucks for a simple amp…I can only hope Dennis Had lives a long time. | |
| Shindo Labs Amps and Preamps Shindo stuff is supposed to be world class and they know it, thus are able to charge whatever they want, although they’re simply wires in a box like everything else (well done and well selected components of course)…count on at least a 50% to 60% ... | |
| Has Rel fallen out of favor with audiophiles? When a driver is driven to extreme levels it can "compress" meaning it limits its own output by no longer responding to dynamics, having zero to do with recorded compression which is simply limiting extremes to squish loudness dynamics generally f... | |
| Has Rel fallen out of favor with audiophiles? I never drive my RELs to compression, and they would likely shut themselves off if I tried and the bass would be WAY out of balance…I own a classic no longer available Mackie HR120 sub I use in my studio, and it's 500 class A/B watts driving an EA... | |
| Has Rel fallen out of favor with audiophiles? The adjustability of RELs, especially the older ones like mine (certain newer models dispense with some knobulation) , enables you (or, in my case, me) to easily "tune" them to the listening environment. My main speakers, although rated to 38hz or... | |
| Sonic qualities of SET output tubes? I tried dumping the output transformers and the amp exploded and nearly destroyed my double wide. Lesson learned. | |
| Sonic qualities of SET output tubes? Stfoth…Mine came with the Gold Lion KT88s, an Amperex USA 6SN7GTB from some NOS vintage, and a JJ 5Y3S rectifier. I've since bought another Amperex that sounds identical to the supplied one (different getters, but labeled a USA tube), a new issue ... |