wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| Why aren't new vacuum tubes as good as old ones? This thread is astonishing. Many new tubes are fabulous (KT120s have been nearly unanimously accepted as great), guitar amps use FAR more of the available tubes than home audio geeks ever will, and new "boutique" tube amps and reissued amps sound ... | |
| So......what do you use under your speakers? My girlfriend of 10 years is very understanding. | |
| So......what do you use under your speakers? Remember that you can saw the legs off of your listening chair or couch instead of raising the speakers. Messy, but effective. | |
| New to headphone amps --- I'm wondering ..... I rarely listen to headphones (except when recording of course) but I run a little 12AU7 based Chinese tube headphone amp from the extra outputs of my preamp...makes it remote controllable (unlike a tape out, which my preamp doesn't have), and it ... | |
| So......what do you use under your speakers? After many years of poking holes in various floors I noticed that there was an "anti-spike" movement afoot (!). Stillpoints make perfect sense, and plenty of speaker makers are now using some sort of "decoupling" on the stands, under the speakers,... | |
| Listening volume I don't listen at the same volume all the time, and am surprised if anybody else does. What are you people...robots? heh heh...Certain recordings sound better than others when louder...recording a piano with a brighter mic or mix sounds fine at ti... | |
| Question about shipping damage The claims department is an outside service that handles UPS claims...they can send you paperwork that you can fax (!)back to them to plead your case. | |
| Thinking I need a Sub... If a sub is made of a ball of wax, don't place it near a tube amp. | |
| New KT150 tubes? I might buy a quad of 150s when my 120s die just to see if my amp would blow up. Am I so wrong? Seems the amp (Jolida 502p) can take it...plus I'm getting curious about the 150s and starting to overcome the pickle-esque vibe. | |
| Best Options In A Balanced Preamp Under $1500.00? Kavent S-33...rebadged Vincent SA-93...maybe hard to find. I'd check out the Jolida Fusion...not expensive, balanced ins and outs, remote, tubes. What's not to like? | |
| To Tube or not to Tube...... I stuck some substantial sorbothane feet I've had for years under the amp as it's about 50 lbs...and Vibrapods under the preamp and CD player. I also have little stick-on sorbothane feet under my DAC and phono preamp, and even under my Squeezebox ... | |
| Thinking I need a Sub... There is an interesting characteristic noticed by many sub owners (substers? subheads? sub-humans?) where the sub seems to "charge" the room...the low frequency "ambience" supplied by a sub gets the room warmed up in a sense, and even with music n... | |
| To Tube or not to Tube...... Nostubeman has 5 tube amps in his listening room and consequently doesn't own a sweater. I too have noticed the palpable image created by my rig of musicians "in the room," which I often prefer to having real musicians in my room as they tend to d... | |
| New KT150 tubes? Although I barely care what ARC says about most things, I'm tempted to ask them about the 150s simply because I was asked not to. | |
| Speaker imaging I think it's more of a nostril directivity issue more than nose volume. You need to keep the sound out of there...one idea is to knit micro sweaters to wrap around the nose hairs. That's just one idea, albeit a great one. |