wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| Need some suggestions on tube amplifier I consistently rant in here about Jolida since I bought a factory upgraded JD502p power amp...powerful, well made, has XLR inputs along with RCAs (I like that), fabulous sounding and a bargain...around twice the rated power as a Louie Prima Prolog... | |
| Preamp with XLR input under 1k? I posted a similar query a couple of years ago and a Kavent dealer popped out of the woodwork...perhaps the last Kavent dealer anywhere, and sold me a fabulous new balanced S-33 preamp for what I thought was a bargain price...and promptly went out... | |
| Class D vs Class A Marqmike...now you're making fun of me and that hurts...however...I think somebody should make a simple rack of tubes that power up but don't actually do anything...just enough juice to make 'em look like they're working, and you could simply hide... | |
| Class D vs Class A I think as long as amp designers are listening the the things they build, they should be able to make things sound great built from switching amps or blue cheese. Class D is obviously here to stay and Diavelet, Rogue, Bel Canto, and many others ha... | |
| Sub-woofer fast enough for Horns? Bol972s posts, although sincere, are basically bolcrap. Having heard live music doesn't make you an expert on recorded sound. I listen to, perform, and mix live sound (primarily acoustic instruments) professionally but my opinions have no "special... | |
| Your first amp? I bought a KLH Model 20 system in maybe 1970 that sounded amazing. This was the "turntable with amp" model without the tuner, and the speakers just kicked ass. | |
| Oldest piece of gear you own I'm not sure when I bought my Adcom ACE 515 power conditioner that is still in use (don't start with me...when it blows up I'll replace it) but my Linn Basik/Akito might actually be older although I bought it a few years ago. I use a pair of recon... | |
| Upgrading Turntable I'm with Lindisfarne, but would supper suffice in lieu of service? Give a man supper and he eats it once, give a man good warranty service and he might get hungry but his item gets fixed. Also, I love my Linn Basic/Akito table but have also been l... | |
| Amp with best bass control Vicdamone...I still play, mostly guitar and songwriting. | |
| Do we still need 6550 or KT88 tubes? I think Wolf Garcia said something like that earlier. | |
| Do we still need 6550 or KT88 tubes? It seems the number of people dissatisfied with KT 120s is up to 3. It's a mounting wave of dissatisafaction. | |
| Tubes vs Solid State The meters on my Squeezebox tell the input level balance in an obvious visual format, and it might be possible to correlate this to amp output if I cared about that. I do understand there are some who tinker with SS amp innards, but for instant gr... | |
| Tubes vs Solid State Have you ever been looking at your SS amp and thought, "I wonder what it would sound like if I tried different transistors in there", and then you ran out to buy a set of new transistors, you stick 'em in there, and listen. NO YOU HAVE NOT. Unless... | |
| Tubes vs Solid State Only buy a SS amp if it has VU meters that move...all SS amps should be required to have this, and the fact that they don't is shameful. If you have a tube amp that does not display the tubes, sell it and get one that does. This is really the only... | |
| Tubes vs Solid State Tube amps are more fun, and more fun is better. There, it's settled. |