wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| 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. | |
| Prima Luna vs jolida I use KT120s, Psvane 12AX7-T IIs, and Mullard NOS 12AT7s, none of which are expensive, and all of which sound amazingly good, although I said that about the other tubes I was using before this group. I researched the crap outta the "Tube Amp World... | |
| Do we still need 6550 or KT88 tubes? I like the sound of my 6550 and KT88 sets, but KT120s seem to sound stronger in my rig, and they're larger, so there's that...I do wonder if Shuguang KT120s will be any different from Tung Sols, and recently noticed some Chinese "Gold Lion" brande... | |
| Do we still need 6550 or KT88 tubes? KT120s are absolutely reliable not only based on my own experience of using them daily for nearly 2 years, but also based on my having rarely ever seen anybody say otherwise even when I posted a question regarding longevity. I think we "need" 6550... | |
| Why No Power Button on Some Phono Stages? Several days? That's just silly...turn off everything when you're not around, or at least never admit that you leave things on, as these days that's simply lame. Really. | |
| Why No Power Button on Some Phono Stages? I turn my doorbell off when I leave the house. It doesn't seem to have any effect on the sound. | |
| Prima Luna vs jolida Perhaps swap the 12AX7s and 12AT7s out (I like Mullard 12at7A/CV4024s and Psvane 12ax7s), different power tubes, try different interconnects and speaker wires...take the entire amp apart and replace everything with premium caps, resisters, wire, a... |