wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| Active studio monitors anyone? I've used passive speakers for near field monitoring for many years because I simply have them around and can tweak the sound with outboard stuff including amps, and among the best I've had are some old KEF Q10s with front ports. Still have those.... | |
| Can headphones ever be as good as high end stereo? Design a vest with transducers built into it to allow you to feel bass while using headphones, and virtual reality 3D glasses with a view of a band or orchestra. You can also use your speakers as headphones by putting them on either side of your h... | |
| Anyone have honest opinion of Jolida amps? Mine was upgraded to whatever was offered 4 and a half years ago (only one package of upgrades was offered so the choice was easy) so It’s hard to say what’s appropriate now for your amp. Seriously, call the guys at Jolida as they’re likely to act... | |
| Any love for Jolida integrates? I ranted in earlier posts about how great the guys at Jolida were when I bought my "upgraded" 502p 4 or so years ago. I was able to waste a lot of their time on the phone (Including talking to the Jolida founder, Mike Allen), and they actually sen... | |
| Elac B5 and B6??? Just another flash in the pan speaker?? or worth it I think the Andrew Jones designed ELAC speakers sound amazing for their price although I haven't heard them personally, don't plan to buy them, and otherwise likely may not hear them anyplace…still…they're great. | |
| Anyone have honest opinion of Jolida amps? I've also done in house comparisons of my 502p (factory upgraded) to other tube amps and it has won every shoot-out against some far more expensive stuff (all relative of course, and by "won" I mean it sounded as good or better to me)…it has been ... | |
| Does a sub need to be on the floor? The ceiling…stick it to the ceiling. | |
| Fake Audioquest sky cables If Audioquest tells you in advance they're gonna trash the fakes you send to them, that's all they need to say. No issue of rights at all. I use several AQ cables bought used and they're not extremely expensive versions in the first place so I hav... | |
| Best REEL TO REEL blank tape? I'm transferring all of my LPs to sheet music so I can get musicians to come over and play everything live. The early Jethro Tull stuff should be interesting... | |
| Does a sub need to be on the floor? Regarding cost, you can find a used REL for a couple hundred bucks (I recently added a REL Q108II to my Q150e and it sounds great…8" woofer, lots of adjustability)…good subs "charge" a room regardless of the music’s low frequency content rendering... | |
| Tubes for cary preamp Phono Section? After using various NOS 12AX7s and other new stuff as the drivers in my tube amp, I bought a matched pair of the new Gold Lions and they're very good…stable, gold pins, relatively inexpensive, excellent tonal characteristics or lack of same (which... | |
| McIntosh I second the meter thing…all amps should have meters, preferably with blue background lighting. I use a Squeezebox Touch and at night often use the meter display setting. Any music sounds at least 37% better if there's a meter someplace…this is a ... | |
| What in the world is going on..... Frank Zappa pointed out that musicianship isn’t a "pushup contest" and he was right. Also, It's a well documented thing that the brilliant John McLaughlin was astonished and influenced by his friend Jimi Hendrix (as was pretty much anybody else ar... | |
| What in the world is going on..... If anybody can't see the genius in Frissell I assume their taste is somewhat unsophisticated, or you might think jazz is "too many notes" or something, and it doesn't matter anyway as there's plenty of lighter fare to enjoy…Scofield, Ford, et al h... | |
| Speaker wattage question Any speaker has limits, and modern speakers generally are going to be way too loud for anyone nearby to enjoy before those limits are reached. Your 165 watt amp will be using far less than its max before the speaker seems to be screaming, and if y... |