wolf_garcia
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| Small Sub, NHT Sub 8 or Velodyne MiniVee I bought a used REL Q150e a few years ago for 200 bucks...goes down easily to 25hz, sounds amazing, and one does the job in my medium-large room with aplomb...aplomb... | |
| Cleaning, polishing Speaker Cabinets ? Novus plastic cleaner (comes in 3 intensities for various scratch removal needs) is what pro guitar repair people (Pat DiBurro who is a guitar repair genius and an official repair dude for Martin, Taylor and others, turned me on to this stuff afte... | |
| 1/4'' ding / chip on a glossy black speaker The aforementioned auto touch up paint, if it looks like it matches color wise, works with just about any finish as it's more like sticky nail polish than normal paint. | |
| Advice about what to do with not-needed tubes? Whole hog...hmmm...This is an inappropriate post...kidding...heh heh...note that a LOT of amps use 12at7s (thousand of Jolidas for example). I suggest that while figuring this out, you mount them on a display with tiny LEDs under them and use them... | |
| 1/4'' ding / chip on a glossy black speaker Try black auto touchup paint (usually in the little glass vial with a small brush). I've used this to touch up a black electric guitar ding and it can work. Use multiple coats and wet sand with small grit followed by some car wax to fine finish it. | |
| Spdif cable construction. Yes it's true...or maybe not... | |
| Why so many Plinius for sale lately Pliniophobia. | |
| Spdif cable construction. I've compared longer to shorter and at least 3 various designs and it's very hard to tell the difference, cable theory notwithstanding...I use a .5 meter silver solid core AQ (VDM5) from the streamer and an almost silver one meter (VDM3) from the ... | |
| which sub to get Does anybody else use something like the "high level" speaker output driven input like REL? | |
| which sub to get The "precise" volume setting changes when needed...I instantly know when it's too hot or not, but I have a "default" setting for most of the time, and stuck a "chicken head" knob on the volume so it's easier to steer. | |
| Good amp for Silverline SR-16 88db efficiency ? Or simply the Jolida 502p power amp, as then you would be a better, more well liked person. | |
| Looking for really fine cables at really low price Every audio freak has a favorite cable, and mine are the ones I buy at an EXTREME discount compared to their new cost on Ebay or A'gon's marketplace. Seriously...used cables are broken in (!), mine all seemed good as new, and after careful shoppin... | |
| Interesting Article Modern pressings can sound astonishingly great on heavier vinyl so I don't see new LPs as any sort of issue generally, and note that since I have hundreds of LPs from the 60's onward that I like to listen to from time to time, a turntable is the o... | |
| Why does my tube amp I think I should be taken seriously which is the main reason I shouldn't be. | |
| Why does my tube amp 502p amp...when I bought it I wanted something with at least 50 watts pc, and balanced (or at least XLR...this amp isn't truly balanced but I use XLRs because I like them) inputs as my preamp allowed for that. Very few tube power amps exist in thi... |