wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| Best Speaker for classical music I listen to 100 piece orchestras frequently, always have, and have a well rounded background decades long in myth-free audio as a professional musician/recording engineer and hifi fan. I stick by what I say...for example, my current somewhat modes... | |
| Best Speaker for classical music My system does struggle with Death Folk and Mumblecore. | |
| Use Your Own Ears This entire discussion is an affront to the audio elite who selflessly share their hallowed science backed opinions while buttoning their shirts up to their scrawny, unshaved necks when feverishly blogging away to the great unwashed about cryoed w... | |
| Best Speaker for classical music The distinction between types of music relative to speaker design is silly. A well recorded jazz piano trio has every bit as complex and demanding a tonal pallette as symphonic music, and is only constrained or affected by level and room acoustics... | |
| question about jolida amps I can't speak to older Jolida stuff, but my nearly 2 year old 502p with the factory upgrade bits is very well designed, beautifully built, and sounds fabulous...at about half the retail cost of anything in its performance range. Current Jolida stu... | |
| Preamp with Tone Control Recommendations .... Get a D'Agostino Momentum preamp for only $32,000. Sure, it's a little pricey but hey, you get tone controls. | |
| Good speakers to be placed close to rear wall Most speakers with front ports are going to work better against a wall, although if they're designed with more emphasis on bass frequencies they're still gonna boom. | |
| Speaker for nearfield listening? Speakers with coaxial drivers like ones from KEF and Tannoy work well for nearfield listening (I use an older pair of KEF Q10s in my recording studio and they blow away most so-called "pro" monitors) as the driver blending is done before the sound... | |
| which amp to get? Try tubes. If I was buying an integrated amp I'd get a used Jolida or Prima Luna as they make a lot of variations of them, many with RC, and tubes are more fun. | |
| Which REL sub, R528 or B2 Timing and response as well as "speed" are utterly useless when used in a conversation about subs in any context other than discussing the design of a sound system for 100,000 listeners spread over acres at a festival. Bo's relentless nonesense in... | |
| So sub or not to sub I stick little rubber feet under the lower corners of wall art, otherwise the furniture seems to control things somewhat. Bass frequencies are longer sound waves that are harder to wrangle, but I do know that tube traps of some sort can work if ne... | |
| Monitor speaker recommendations I have a pair of now ancient KEF Q10s I use for extra speakers and studio near field monitors and they sound really good...plus, the port is on the front so shelf positioning isn't as big a deal. I assume new ones are better, but I've always been ... | |
| When to power off a tube amp? I had a NOS JAN Philips 12AT7 flame out in my Jolida last year...harmed nothing, replaced both 12AT7s under warranty (thank you thetubestore) with nice matched CV4024 Blackburn Mullards, and have been living happily ever after. I don't leave the a... | |
| tube buffers I'm in the school of "clean signal into lightly greasy tube power amp", and even with a modest DAC it sounds sweet and doesn't lack in detail. So clearly the answer is to be like me...old and crotchety. | |
| So sub or not to sub I have to say that since systems are taste AND room dependant there is nothing that works for everybody, except maybe keeping level under control...I'm sure many digital system squashers sound great to the swquashees (squashoids?), but I'm into "l... |