wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| LP Record Cleaning Machine - Ultrasonic or Vacuum I use the Spin Clean, and provide the ultrasonic part with my own loud self satisfied humming caused by my joy in not having spent a pile on an expensive cleaning machine. | |
| Jolida 1501RC hybrid integrated vs. Rogue's Sphinx I get the "buy local" thing...interestingly, Jolida's founder Michael Allen started a new factory in China (after his falling out with the lawsuit dudes) to provide his workers with much better working conditions and wages to insure high quality..... | |
| New KT150 tubes? KT 150s are likely to never appear in a guitar amp, unless somebody thinks they need a very clean unusually high powered guitar amp, which most guitar players don't. I don't think anybody makes a KT120 powered guitar amp, although a tube bass amp ... | |
| Jolida 1501RC hybrid integrated vs. Rogue's Sphinx That Rogue Class D with a tube front end seems to be getting some good press...and Rogue is a great US company. For the record, USA Jolida (MD) is doing fine (look up the details of the lawsuit...it's silly), and their recent stuff is very well ma... | |
| What amplifier to get for Vandy 1 C's Yes, and yes. I've owned a factory upgraded Jolida 502P and it's been amazing (year and a half or so). Quiet, very detailed, plenty of tube power...an excellent and accurate very musical amp, has XLR and RCA inputs, 8 or 4 ohm output (all rare at ... | |
| Primer reading for new Rogue Cronus owner? Watch the Youtube "Mullard factory film"...it's great. I think tubes just seem alive...and I love the way tube amps sound. Fun...they're fun, and you certainly don't need much time to tube roll...in fact starting to do that sooner than later gets ... | |
| Fun, small footprint, floor standers I don't think I hear boxy resonances from the Preludes, although if I do I'm gonna jump up and yell, "Damn those boxy resonances." | |
| Tubes vs Solid State - Imaging, Soundstaging, 3D Techno babbalo obfuscaturo a mundo. El tubo harmonico supremo. | |
| Do you indulge when listening to your rig? Phd...wrongo bongo...pot, interestingly, has never killed anybody (maybe somebody with a weird allergy, or they died while laughing...but still). It may be the only actually non-toxic (by clinical definition) thing you ever do. | |
| Fun, small footprint, floor standers My favorite jazz club is in late 70's early 80's Honolulu, so I can no longer sit there, and nearby Boston jazz clubs...meh. No butler or tapestries? Man...how do people live like that? My 62 year old "abused by guitar amps" hearing is beyond pres... | |
| Tubes vs Solid State - Imaging, Soundstaging, 3D Neil Diamond? Now I'm REALLY upset...last word from me on the dearly departed (from the forum anyway), ALOHA! I thought I'd get more hiss than I do from my Jolida, but it's actually less than what I had from my previous SS amps...including some we... | |
| Fun, small footprint, floor standers My 10 year old REL Q150e integrates very well with the Preludes in my medium-large listening room, they sound great playing classical music with the REL providing that "room charge" they do so well, and I have to wonder how people actually listen ... | |
| Fun, small footprint, floor standers The Regular Prelude can kick it up pretty loud in my medium-large room so I bet the Plus with all those drivers can do even better. | |
| Tubes vs Solid State - Imaging, Soundstaging, 3D Only three scenarios here: 1. He actually DID lose a family member and chose an amazingly inappropriate use of this event to engender sympathy, 2. Nobody died and he's grasping at straws which is slightly weirder, and 3. He's joking, although seei... | |
| Tubes vs Solid State - Imaging, Soundstaging, 3D If Mirthless Melbguy1 had continued to harass me with his odd private messages wherin he weirdly plays a sympathy card, I had planned to post 'em just to embarass him out of my mail! He saved me from this...whew...and again, he MUST be joking, or ... |