wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| A New Reel to Reel Tape Deck? I’ve mixed live shows as a "small venue sound man" (rarely record them these days, although I have had things that I simply "dumped" from the board mix on to media come out fine), mostly jazz and acoustic "folkie" (current meaning: singer songwrit... | |
| Silverline Speaker Opinion The current "non plus" Prelude is an amazing speaker when paired with a good sub. I've had a pair for years and it's somewhat unique in the Silverline line (!) in that it has magnesium/aluminum woofers and tweeters, not shared with other Silverlin... | |
| Suspensions on turntable...really effective? The bass produced my Linn Basik/Akito rig is astonishingly good…why? Is it the Mogami din plug cable I put on it to replace the original that had actual rat bites (!) through to the wire? Is it the Sumiko Pearl cartridge that was embarrassingly in... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Don’t do it…reversing a fuse can cause a warp in the time continuum that can plunge you and the rest us of into an irreversible black hole. Also, am I the only one to doubt the claimed astonishing sonic effects of a half inch of potentially self d... | |
| SS pre sounds like tubes I think a great way to get that "tube" sound is to use tubes. Reviewers of amps and preamps use the "tube-like" description so often it's become a cliche', but I get it, and I use tubes. I am into hifi accuracy (!) although with recorded music you... | |
| Russian Tubes or Old "American" Tubes (built where ever)? I buy small preamp type tubes, matched and balanced, 12AX7s and 12At7s generally, from familiar dealers (thetubestore, Upscale), but the KT120s and KT150s as "factory" matched quads have served me well from Ebay sellers. If they tested poorly or h... | |
| Suspensions on turntable...really effective? I use a "vintage" Linn Basik (Akito) with no suspension to speak of except the large rubber hollow feet it sits on (the turntable is on a light but stable little table of its own, as per the Linn instructions!). I recently obtained a second REL su... | |
| So you've just heard speakers that blew you away I personally use the room correction program built into my head as it's analog and extremely flexible (!)…I think…this compels me to turn my 2 subs up or down a little sometimes, and requires that I own some furniture. | |
| Vandersteen 2CE sig II first run or current?.... Years ago I sent my beloved 1Bs to Vandy to have the Damn Cat damaged covers re-done…called and asked if they could simply upgrade 'em somehow…Sir Richard got on the phone and read me the riot act, so to speak. How dare I minimize the completely r... | |
| Mesa Boogie Strategy 400 Yeah man…I can’t recall any tube hifi amp that does what a Baron does in terms of features. Maybe we should start a "bring back the Baron" petition. As an aside, a couple of years ago I bought a barely used Burriss 18 watt, hand wired, made in USA... | |
| Dan D'Agostino Is Making 'Big Iron' Again - 800 wpc Monoblocks "Bauhaus Boring" is a term that is part of the design world’s descriptive term lexicon treasured by architecture critics world wide although just made up by myself. | |
| Dan D'Agostino Is Making 'Big Iron' Again - 800 wpc Monoblocks I’m more of a "first watt" tube amp tone freak and have no need for gigawatt amps (lucky me), but I do understand the Large Expensive Amp deal. To me D’Agostino’s stuff is so beautiful looking I’d be tempted to get one of them things…if I didn’t h... | |
| Mesa Boogie Strategy 400 I've been using Mesa guitar amps off and on since the Prune Music modded Princeton days (a long, long time ago…*sigh*...), and I've found they are an amazingly high quality amp company. That Baron amp was simply ahead of its time, and I'd love to ... | |
| Protecting speakers in home theatre application? My Silverline Prelude tweeters have little screens on them to supposedly help acoustically with treble dispersion or something, and are thusly protected. I was talking about this with a sales dude at Goodwin's once…the groovy Magicos have a beryl... | |
| Russian Tubes or Old "American" Tubes (built where ever)? Bought my Mullard NOS 4024s (12AT7s) from thetubestore.com, and the gold pin 6201 version (also Mullard NOS) from Upscale Audio, as that's the only place that had these (that I found anyway). I can recommend both of these vendors as easy to deal ... |