wolf_garcia
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| Do 180g vinyls sound better or is it a myth ? 180 gram vinyl gives the listener a feeling that it "might" be better which in the mind of an audiophile means it’s better. It might not sound better…but it’s better anyway…exactly like the break-in period of your cryo treated wall plugs…after 2 m... | |
| solid state gear- leave on? I was perhaps too harsh when I posted previously that leaving your amps on all of the time is simply wasteful…I do have my RELs in standby so that’s a watt or two down the drain, but since I actually feel that saving the weather systems on this pl... | |
| I heard the new D'Agostino Progression 800w monoblocks last night Dan gets props for design aesthetic, and since the demand for uber expensive stuff is seemingly bottomless he's positioned his comeback smartly. I can relate to the "back at home" comment…the few times in recent years I've visited a high end shop ... | |
| What is best turntable for listening to Rock from the sixties like Led Zeppelin? My first decent playback rig was a KLH Model 20 compact system (the one without the tuner). Built-in Gerrard table with a Pickering cart festooned with a little record brush sticking over the end…cool…really good sounding speakers for that time. | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Mapman…If you don't mind, when you're finished enjoying the astonishing transformation produced by the use of the half inch of directional hair thin fuse wire on your system, your wardrobe, the brightening of the sound room wallpaper, and your Mam... | |
| What is best turntable for listening to Rock from the sixties like Led Zeppelin? Note that my turntable could not do well with the "unplugged" Norwegian Gypsy Death Metal Polka tribute to Myron Floren albums (there are four), but this could have been due to the fact that I took the "unplugged" part perhaps too literally. I'm w... | |
| klipschorns, they kick ass for sure Seriously, who the hell has room for giant bass horn loaded monsters? I had Altec A7s back in the 70s (used for band PA mostly) and they really sounded cool for hifi, sort of a wooden tone that is really appealing…but now I have a large house and ... | |
| Suggest affordable cable options Don't listen to any advice except this: Buy used cables…seriously…people compulsively dump great sounding cables all the time and used wires have to be among the best buy you can make for a hifi rig, and if it was audiophile owned it's likely pamp... | |
| What is David Bowie's turntable? I'm a musician currently, been one since the 60s, and some of us are hifi gear heads. Not many it seems, but not many of anybody is an audio geek so it's kind of the same deal…sad but true. I do try to convert people (including some fellow musicia... | |
| What is best turntable for listening to Rock from the sixties like Led Zeppelin? Music style specific gear seems strange to me, but I'll bite. I have plenty of LPs from the 60s because I was there (old person alert), and I suggest listening to any of it with the best turntable you can afford. I also suggest the first Jeff Beck... | |
| Suggestions for best KT-88's for Cary cad 120s tube power amp? Try KT150s…an excellent tube. | |
| Neutral electronics are a farce... Dave_b..Maybe you missed the "rhetorical question" part of my rhetorical question. I find that I can pick and choose which aspects of the signal I want to harm, and then harm the living crap out of them. Pesky upper mids? I duct tape 1,247 small ... | |
| Jadis Orch pretubes 12AX7A, upgrade advice... I had bad luck with the Psvane 12AX7TII tubes…sloppy manufacturing (bad labeling overspray) and a fail…after trying NOS Phillips (another fail…weirdly) and various other recommended brands (the overflow of 12Ax7s wind generally up in one of my gui... | |
| I have seen some Interesting comments about Mcintosh lately Somebody was recently selling a non McIntosh acrylic platter table that had some LEDs installed under the platter to make it glow…so there's that. | |
| Neutral electronics are a farce... I've hosted concerts in my listening room…the room remains "untreated" as furniture does the job, so are the live shows not "neutral?" This is a rhetorical question. |