wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| Bryston 4BSST2 Extreme high power amps are like owning a 450hp lawn mower. And if they're not, I still enjoyed making up the analogy. | |
| Impact of speaker stands? The drivers in the JBLs will be contributing something to the mix just from the fact that active speakers are on top of them...so there's that...also I've found that small-ish conventionally stand mounted speakers have a "singing" pleasant quality... | |
| Rel sub cable options I love Neutrik connectors (years in pro audio) and find it's really simple to build cables using these things. Get a shrink wrap setup (for the amp end) and off you go...I replaced my REL cable with some well designed cable (Canare...made from gro... | |
| Tube life in preamp. Please help My current "junk output tubes" are KT150s that sound astonishingly excellent, and if you leave tube gear on all the time...well...you get what you deserve. | |
| Tube life in preamp. Please help A note about tube's being damaged by "current in-rush"...I've owned tube guitar (old low wattage stuff, high wattage English and US amps, etc.) amps that kept their preamp tubes for DECADES and were turned on and off thousands of times with and wi... | |
| Agree or disagree with the following statement. "Uh...Clem"...Firesign Theater. | |
| Agree or disagree with the following statement. "There's a seeker born every minute"...Firesign Theater. | |
| Amp and preamp on same outlet? Interestingly (only to me perhaps), after switching to a moderately powered tube power amp (60 to 85 watts or so per side) I found that the lights no longer dimmed at loud passages like they did with my previous 100 watt pc high current SS amp. Al... | |
| Agree or disagree with the following statement. I made no comments regarding "extra circuitry," but imagining I did could be symptomatic of some people's propensity to accept Imaginary Quasi Holistic Audio Bullshit Tweaks, know as "ICKBUTT." I will readily enjoy things I think work, but if I en... | |
| Agree or disagree with the following statement. Geoffkait...we listened, and we (among many others) decided the Tice Clock was nonsense that time (pun alert) proved...as is the term "throwing out the negative results"...there were no "negative results," there were no results at all. Lars was a ... | |
| Agree or disagree with the following statement. The only value of the Tice Clock was timekeeping. And I did get to "hear" one at the late Lars Friedell's (possible spelling error alert) house (yes, THAT Lars) as he was a neighbor in CT. It is still my fave imaginary magical tweak and did sort o... | |
| Agree or disagree with the following statement. I love this stuff: The Tice Clock was an infamous case of utter tweak silliness when Tice marketed a Radio Shack clock that was supposedly treated with some magic Tice mojo. Supposedly when plugged into any part of the electric circuit of a room c... | |
| Agree or disagree with the following statement. Tice Clock...need I say more? | |
| Agree or disagree with the following statement. It takes some sensibility to read a review and determine if a component might work for you, and if enough reviewers say it's good...it just might be good. Since subjective reviewing became normal, lots of bullshit has flown as well as useful infor... | |
| Agree or disagree with the following statement. I buy gear based on looks alone, and especially love meters and tubes. So neither sound nor specs matter...only looks. If it happens to sound good also...well...that's a "win win." |