wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| 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 ... | |
| New KT150 tubes? I do have one dissimilar 120, and since it works fine I ignore that although it did bug me...but I get it. I suppose the good news is the fact that anybody makes tubes at all since it really seems to be a fiddly hands on thing. I watched an entire... | |
| What are the purpose of "Tape" and "Rec" preamp ? You can also use the "out" for a headphone amp. I'm surprised so many current preamps offer these...maybe in anticipation of the reel to reel boom that is (barely) happening. | |
| Tubes vs Solid State - Imaging, Soundstaging, 3D As a musician, I have played in a room with a "black background"...it was empty, and the manager sent us home early (true story...a club on a mysterious empty military base in hills above Honolulu). Does this information help anybody? | |
| What amplifier to get for Vandy 1 C's I LOVED My 1Bs...sent 'em back for cloth replacement and sold them (too many cats messing with them back then), but what a great speaker. They're efficient so why not try an inexpensive tube amp? Well? Why not? Come on! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH... | |
| Tube Dealer Recommendation Here's a BAD experience tale...for no reason in particular I ordered a matched pair of gold pin blah blah Psvane 12AX7-T IIs from China. They arrived with one tube looking sadly oversprayed and off kilter. I had 'em send a second pair (sent the fi... |