wolf_garcia
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| Tube Amp vs Solid State Amp HELP Also, as I've said before, tube amps make you "seem" more interesting, which is almost as valuable as actually being more interesting. Since you have gone for a SS amp, you can still cut holes in the top and stick tubes in it an light them up with... | |
| Conrad Johnson Repair Issues I shipped a guitar amp to the manufacturer for an update and it was dropped on its corner by UPS…bent the metal frame corner. It was sent back to me by UPS in the same packaging (!) and I unbent it and it works fine. UPS was an insane pain in the ... | |
| Speaker grills on or off? I like designers who make speakers that look good with grills off (covers over the driver screws maybe, hidden grill holding magnets, etc.), and I particularly like tweeters designed to have little mesh screens on them to ward off poking, accident... | |
| Question for sub woofer users One sub can be fine and you should simply move it around until you like the sound (generalizing, but my original REL worked great alone). I did get another REL last year and I like having two just to calm the corner standing waves. The "leave it a... | |
| Amps which are Great, but either Unknown or Underpriced After reading yet another article about Primaluna amps in a major audio mag, I remain surprised that Jolida rarely gets reviewed (the FX 10 made it in someplace in recent years…but not much else) in audio mags. I assume it's due to a lack of adver... | |
| speakers for listener with Tinnitus As as a pro musician for almost 5 decades my ears often ring so loud that sometimes other people can hear them! I still get paid to mix (mostly Jazz these days) live shows so the ringing in my head must not be leaking into the mix…lucky... | |
| Test CD for positioning speakers and subwoofer I use test CDs to see where speakers roll off mostly for amusement purposes only, as my ears still work as the only truly valuable speaker positioning aids. | |
| Help me decide: Grado Gold or AT440ML I had an AT440 that was simply too bright, and replaced it with a Sumiko Pearl. I still like that damn Pearl…even replaced the stylus recently. | |
| Can pro amps possibly sound good? Crown, QSC, etc QSC amps and other pro power amps can sound great, although I only use 'em for pro audio gigs (don't like amp fans running in quiet listening or recording rooms). Certainly "bang for the buck" applies with this stuff (I use a "little" QSC amp here... | |
| Creek 5350SE v Evolution 5350 Jafant is the resident Chinaphobe, and it's getting pretty tedious. | |
| Reliabilty, Keeping Equipment Powered on or off? Uh…just had to leave town for 3 days due to unexpected family thing and uh…left everything on including my tube amp. Man... | |
| Would you go all 1 brand for electronics? Wax cylinders are the true analog medium, and lacquer 78s…well…you know what I mean. | |
| Atmasphere amps trustable? I love my single ended class A Burriss Royal Bluesman guitar amp…but then it's merely a toy that I get payed handsomely (!) to play through. The words "toy" and "play" do fit together well. | |
| Tube Amp vs Solid State Amp HELP Wait…you can’t make a decision without at least few dozen more pages of opinions from your audio geek brethren (and sister-en). What the hell are you thinking? This sort of thing throws a monkey wrench into this entire operation…next you’re gonna ... | |
| Spendor A6 vs Harbeth Compact 7ES-3 Any good sounding speakers with one or two musical subs can reproduce anything well. My perfect Silverline Preludes cost 400 bucks used a few years ago, both my mint condition REL subs were bought used for 200 bucks each, lots of used cables and c... |