wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| Tubes vs Solid State - Imaging, Soundstaging, 3D It's an interesting proposition to compare high cost SS amps to low cost tube amps. I've hear various Boulder, Pass, Krell, and other SS amps and think they work really well...some of those cost more than a nice car. I've also lived with a modest ... | |
| New KT150 tubes? This is the first I've heard of KT120 quality issues, and I think it's interesting Davide has experienced "erratic" manufacturing when they're made in the same factory as GL tubes (maybe the Gold Lion quality control team should visit other parts ... | |
| Fun, small footprint, floor standers The Prelude Plus is pretty dissimilar to the Prelude...no metal woofers, no screen on the soft dome tweeter (maybe I worry about that too much, but still...), although I bet they sound great. I would like to get my regular Preludes covered in stri... | |
| New KT150 tubes? 7000 hours is two years or so at 10 hours a day...or 30 years at one hour a day...300 years at a minute a day? | |
| Fun, small footprint, floor standers I keep looking for speakers to replace my Preludes (for no reason, and much more money), and I can't do it. Although opinions vary, I think putting great gear in front of these can, and does for me anyway, work very well. I have these on little bu... | |
| New KT150 tubes? The current best price for a quad is 300 bucks...that's where they should be I think. My 4 120s have been in heavy daily use for a year and a half with no signs of weakening...serious hours...they refuse to die...what the hell is wrong with them? | |
| Tubes vs Solid State - Imaging, Soundstaging, 3D I may have mentioned this before, but we used 2 (music store lent to us) 2000S amps with the "jumbo" JBL loaded 2X15 Sunn cabs (weird, larger cabinet, but no argument from us!), and our own 200S with the standard cab when we opened for Led Zepelli... | |
| New KT150 tubes? KT150s are on Ebay for less than that, so maybe those are cryoed or something. | |
| Do you indulge when listening to your rig? THREAD SCHMED! | |
| Tubes vs Solid State - Imaging, Soundstaging, 3D Metralla...I was being ironic...or sarcastic...or something...Since when did people start taking this stuff so literally? Is this an Aussie thing? Also, it is difficult for me to get by the fact that Isochronism has a Sunn 2000s, and that it's onl... | |
| Do you indulge when listening to your rig? I owned a Grammer guitar for 40 years or something...just like Slim Witman! Also, I've never plugged a guitar amp into the ACE515...too much work schlepping an amp from the studio area into the hifi room. And my current fave guitar amp was made in... | |
| Tubes vs Solid State - Imaging, Soundstaging, 3D It's good that Mirthless Mel is taking a break from this forum before the wheels come off of what's left of his rational mind. If you have to ask if my opening statement was ironic, I have to assume you're maybe Dutch.I'm not a proponent of anythi... | |
| Tubes vs Solid State - Imaging, Soundstaging, 3D All SS amps (other than hybrids) are 100% guaranteed to not use tubes. They excell at that. Good tube amps excell at "low level detail" and are quiet, or zillions of serious listeners wouldn't be using them. Does anybody really say, "I like tube a... | |
| Tubes vs Solid State - Imaging, Soundstaging, 3D Tubes degenerate very slightly over time and there is no significant audible change until they wear out, conventional (or convenient) myths notwithstanding. Tubes are more fun, and tube amp owners are usually better looking people likely due to th... | |
| Two Subs? Bo...I can only assume things about your taste in sound quality based on your posts. When you claim to use subs crossed over at 140hz and then you filter the hell out of them with room correction, I can get a good idea of what you're looking for. ... |