wolf_garcia
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| Spendor A6 vs Harbeth Compact 7ES-3 There's that "music specific" thing again…ahem...classical and jazz can be as kick butt and dynamic as ANY music anywhere, and it's only loudness (controllable) ability that differs among speakers, and that has more to do with amp choice. A great ... | |
| My Daughter changed my Subwoofer settings! He forgot to mention that his daughter is 27. | |
| Mellow speakers I don't have cats anymore, but when I did they absolutely loved my Vandy 1Bs. The top had a "cat trampoline" and the cover made a scratch post from cat heaven. Got these re-covered by Vandy and sold them immediately as I could not bear seeing them... | |
| New Adcom GFA-555 se - Special Edition My various Chinese Adcom stuff always worked flawlessly and, especially for the money, sounded great. I still use a 5300 to drive some outdoor speakers and again, it's a great sounding, ballsy, very well designed high current amp. I think Jafant l... | |
| Cary SLP-05 pre + Krell 302e/402e sound? Should I consider a different power amp? I bet that Cary sounds killer with a Krell, and as long as the output impedance matches properly it should work with any amp. If it we're my choice I'd get a Cary 120S MK II to insure that you have the largest pile of tubes possible. Winter is com... | |
| Adcom 555 SE owners .. Any reviews? Can't we put the China "poor quality" thing to bed? There are so many extremely well made Chinese audio products (Hegel, Jolida, Cambridge, Primaluna, Vincent, outsourced high end speaker boxes, on and on) out there now that it's fairly ridiculous... | |
| Tube Amp vs Solid State Amp HELP A "tube roll" is a sandwich made up of mostly broken glass and little metal bits that, really, should only be eaten by trained side show magicians. | |
| Reliabilty, Keeping Equipment Powered on or off? My REL subs are always on, but the standby power is so low as to be insignificant. The rest of my gear warms up (tube amp) and sounds great. The "right answer" is to turn everything off since the benefits described by ANY manufacturer are minimal,... | |
| Reliabilty, Keeping Equipment Powered on or off? I've previously noted that leaving things on even at the suggestion of amp designers is the domain of wasteful boneheads who, as an example of wasteful boneheadedness (!), might also leave their cars running at all times to insure proper engine lu... | |
| Visit to Magnolia Proves Interesting A film studio effects crew can replicate weather conditions with artificial rain and wind machines, although "artificial" rain and wind are actually real albeit "controllable" things. Tent dwellers can set up in the Magnolia parking lot and get th... | |
| Do Thiel Audio CS3.7 Rock? As someone who has "rocked" for nearly 5 decades as a working musician and live sound tech, I'm generally mystified when components are claimed to be "music style specific." "Rock" is such a wide category as to render it meaningless as a style rel... | |
| Tube Amp vs Solid State Amp HELP Yeah…weird choices, and that FX10 is really only useful with very efficient speakers, although it's a nice inexpensive amp. As a tube aficionado I can easily recommend a higher powered Jolida integrated as they're fun, sound great, and you can't s... | |
| Visit to Magnolia Proves Interesting The best way to audition components is to recreate your listening room (and your home audio rig) at the retail location. This involves driving around with a moving van filled with exact replicas of your furnishings and gear, and must include heavy... | |
| Positioning Of Vienna Acoustics The Kiss Loudspeakers An inexpensive "decoupling" solution are Vibrapods…cheap and effective and available in various levels of weight handling capability. I stuck these under my main speakers and instantly became anti spike (hardwood floors) as getting the vibes outta... | |
| Subwoofer with Thiel 2.4s? I'm a 2 subbed (2 subster? "sub" stantial?) listener as I scored another REL from the same era as my Q150e…(a Q108II). 2 subs actually help remove some of the corner roll off boom by introducing an in-phase signal to the bass that escapes along th... |