wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| Questions on KT150 tubes $269 a year ago for a "matched" (at the factory? A tube dating site?) quad of 150s from a very highly rated Ebay seller. Long live the hot pickle!…just crazy good sounding tubes. | |
| Audio advisor and Constellation amplifiers I have a Kavent preamp that is a fully balanced aluminum cladded discreet dual mono power supplied astonishingly great sounding work of art that is a re-badged Vincent…I love the damn thing. I also have a couple of those Pangea p100 (designed by ... | |
| Latest Absolute Sound Correction: The Band used a CLAVINET with a wah. (Swine spell correction!)…a clarinet with a wah would be illegal in most states. | |
| Questions on KT150 tubes I don't recall breaking in the 150s for any particular time period since I replaced a set of 120s that were on their last legs…thus an instant improvement. Also, I can only assume that since all amp designs are somewhat different, so are the way t... | |
| Tube preamp reliability vs SS? Myself and other geezer guitar amp users (in my case since 1962, but not professionally before 1967) were mostly clueless about preamp tubes and abused the hell out of tube amps with no MOLLYCODDLING. Whatever that means…very rare for a good tube ... | |
| Help? Stereo for art studio, under $1k It’s impossible to make a suggestion without knowing what kind of art is being created. With a budget under a grand I can only assume it’s not particularly commercial. That said, if the studio is going to also be a hip party space, get an inexpens... | |
| Forward or recessed sound? Everything I listen to sounds different…generally good to great (since I have fabulous taste and reference grade gear…whatever that means) with forward or not or middling or something else sound. All different, generally recorded in vastly differi... | |
| Latest Absolute Sound I like the vibe of the Brit mags sometimes where they may review something using less than astronomically priced accessories and aren't quite as full of themselves as Stereophile and AS writers…I miss Sam Tellig as he was often funny (met him once... | |
| Latest Absolute Sound I think extreme high end cars are cool, and I drive things that make me think I'm sporty (turbo Mini, older straight 6 BMW 3 series, slightly modded Triumph Bonneville T100), even if my cars aren't McLarens. This clearly is what my hifi gear is ab... | |
| Questions on KT150 tubes My last post was complete nonsense and I stand by it 100%. | |
| Best Cables for around $500 I might be the only person who had a pair of balanced Mogamis that didn't work out. Weird, since I've used these as mic cables for years…maybe it was bad Guitar Center karma. I have a Mogami cable in my turntable that works…so there's that. I woun... | |
| Need Inexpensive Digital Cable I use 2 AQ coax (spdif) cables, a VDM 5 solid silver .5 meter (used…got a good deal) from my CD player, and a VDM 3 solid with silver in there someplace 1 meter from my streamer. They’re both very good and really sound identical, but the more fanc... | |
| Tube options for Jolida After trying various NOS Philips-Psvane-Tung Sol-"preferred" etc. 12AX7s in my Jolida power amp (factory modded 502P), I finally bought a matched and balanced pair of Russian (as opposed to the "licensed" Chinese version) Gold Lions from thetubest... | |
| Zu audio advice I like the Lore with the blue main driver and cool looking gold metal tweeter…98 db efficiency? You could drive it with thoughts from your head. Nice. Less expensive than Zu. | |
| Reel to Reel uses - Nothing beats a great reel to reel deck…I've been a pro musician since 1967 and it's interesting that analog decks are back in a big way in pro studios, even when the recordings are put into a digital mix eventually. The Steely Dan guys loved Otar... |