wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| Tube Watts vs. Solid State Watts - Any credence? Compare Alan Watts to Reggie Watts, and you will find that one continues to produce sound and the other does not. | |
| How important is the amp? I think the most likely source of distortion or any form of inaccuracy in the signal chain are found in the opinions expressed by the listener. | |
| Tube Watts vs. Solid State Watts - Any credence? "Tube amps have no bass" seemingly doesn't address the countless tube bass amps like the amazing Ampeg SVT that's been around since 1969…Mesa made an astonishing sounding tube head in 1983 or something that a dude in my band back then used. Also n... | |
| KT-120 tubes vs Gold Lion KT88's I admit I was initially put off by 150s…the pickle shape reminded me of a building in London. I got over it. | |
| Tube Watts vs. Solid State Watts - Any credence? An interesting phenomena I noticed from decades of guitar amps is the tactile "snap" of tubes. Many geezers like me tried out various SS guitar amps over the years and regardless of design most of us return to the warm land of tubes (some cleaner ... | |
| Upgrading - what amp to choose Perhaps you should get a good tube integrated if "finesse and imaging" are actually important…more heat maybe (I say "maybe" because I've had some SS amps that could fry an egg) but really not an issue unless you live in a small hut, not that ther... | |
| KT-120 tubes vs Gold Lion KT88's Forget the KT120s and jump on a set of KT150s (not literally as pesky glass shards can get in your soup)…simply more of the same gusto as the 120s, but (in my amp anyway) effortless clarity in a great sounding tube that also looks like a pickle, w... | |
| Thinking I need a Sub... I bought a REL Q150e for 200 bucks 4 or so years ago, and a Q108 Series II also for 200 bucks recently so I'm in the Sub Cheapskate camp (both subs work perfectly and sound amazing). New RELs seem well received so any of them should work, and one ... | |
| High End Speaker Prices While high end audio gets increasingly expensive, note that I bought my Silverline Preludes for 400 bucks (nearly new), my latest minty REL for 200 (my other beloved REL was also 200 bucks), my Jolida amp was around 1300 or something (new and upgr... | |
| Primaluna DiaLogue Premium preamp Not an answer to my question, but makes me continue to wonder why an item converting AC to DC outside of the signal path would make anything "warmer" or otherwise, although tubes do get physically warmer by nature. The wonder of wondering. | |
| Recommed a medium sized monitors that can go loud My skinny Silverline Preludes (with REL subs helping out) can get loud enough for me, but only really loud when I feel like blasting something while I'm not in the room with them ("loud" for simply listening from the designated ideal "sweet spot" ... | |
| Sub-Woofers how to power down I turn everything else off because it gives me the right to self righteously declare others who don't to be Destroyers of the Earth. | |
| High End Speaker Prices I've always felt that extreme high end speakers should always sound great since the designers aren't restricted by cost…the genius is in lower cost stuff where designers have to really think about what's important and come up with something soundi... | |
| Sub-Woofers how to power down I have a couple of RELs (older "Q" series) and they supposedly hibernate (using very little juice) when no signal is present. | |
| Primaluna DiaLogue Premium preamp Isn't tube or SS rectification technically not part of the signal path? I use a couple of well designed (Dennis Kager and Bob Burriss) tube guitar amps with both options and my stereo tube hifi amp is SS rectified, so the score around here is curr... |