wolf_garcia
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| Lush and Romantic Tube Amps So Ralph, who makes the sort of Class D amps you describe? Kidding...sorry...I'd like to try a pair of 'em someday so if there's a pair of demos floating around (unlikely as that may be)...I use a superb sounding Pass XA-25 that is allegedly "tube... | |
| Soundstage Heresy IV and Forte IV I bought a pair of new "open box" (Non sequential serial numbers, but close) Heresy III "Capitol Records Anniversary" speakers maybe 5 years ago or so...1500 bucks for the pair. They use titanium diaphragms in the mid and hi horns which I mention ... | |
| What DAC to buy? The Schiit Bifrost 2/64 (which my Bifrost 2 was upgraded to) is a really great sounding and well designed upgradeable DAC. I like Schiit Audio and have a Freya, a couple of headphone amps and a couple of Loki EQs. All are superbly designed and sou... | |
| Immersive Audio and How to Achieve It I’ve been playing music professionally for decades and have also spent many years as an overpaid live sound system designer and mixer. I’ll wait for the applause to die down...OK then...note that nearly zero live systems are stereo mixes because t... | |
| If the DAC is the same, how different do CD transports sound? If you embrace the influence of expectation bias you can appreciate that the more you spend on anything the better you will think it sounds. That always works. | |
| Are your listening levels healthy? Doing damage? When I'm slightly or more than slightly drunk I pay my system louder. If I plug in a small guitar amp I leave in my listening space to play along with something on a pretty Les Paul I leave out (because it's so pretty...all my acoustics guitars st... | |
| Power cable I have a few Pangea AC cables which are a relative bargain compared to ultra expensive ones (the AC9 is like a garden hose but note that it will not work as an actual garden hose so don’t even try that)...I also have an older PS Audio cable that l... | |
| RIP Tom Jones Tom Jones was also a great movie from 1963 starring Albert Finney...sort of blew my young mind...famous eating scene. | |
| Does someone’s opinion affect your opinion? I enjoy opinions that agree with mine, and utterly reject those that don't. | |
| KT-77 vs. KT-66 So you need 8 power tubes...at today's prices that gets an "ouch." Yeah I love the XA-25's utter transparency, but my Had amp just looks sad sitting there and it's easy to swap the wires over to it so there's that, and I'm always amazed and entert... | |
| KT-77 vs. KT-66 I think the Gold Lion 66s have a little more low end maybe. Although unless I listen to them and quickly take them out and put the 77s in its really hard to tell critical differences, and I generally don’t do that. Suffice to say, after break-in (... | |
| KT-77 vs. KT-66 I've been using my Dennis Had SEP tube amp again lately (I switch between it and a Pass XA-25) which can utilize a really wide variety of "KT" type tubes and I really like KT77s (Gold Lion) in the thing. A fave for sure. I discovered a forgotten ... | |
| Ruminations On CD Players Try the new Schiit "URD" CD transport (just released, USA made of course) as they seem to know what they're doing, and if you use it with the Bifrost 2/64 (I have one...sounds excellent) you can utilize their own "unison" USB connection and get th... | |
| Best preamp under 1500$ freya+ , cary slp03 ? I'm an "original version" Freya owner (using NOS GE tubes) and it holds up against pretty much anything out there easily earning it a "class A" rating. The only issue seems to be the fact that the thing is just too inexpensive for some and hey, th... | |
| Tube microphonics In a "combo" guitar amp the entire amp including the tubes are in the same box as the speaker. Since the mid 30s. It works great. |