wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| Thiel CS1.7 loudspeaker Never heard the 2.4...I'm very happy with the sound of my current Silverline Preludes, but I'd like something more interesting to look at for my next speakers...the zebra ebony 1.6s just look great, and I do like smaller speakers...I use a REL sub. | |
| Thiel CS1.7 loudspeaker I'm waiting for my local shop with the remaining NOS 1.6s to have the "Thiel Blow Out Sale," | |
| Magico V2 vs. Q1 What happens if a dinner guest sticks a finger in the Q1 tweeter? I worry. | |
| Cat damaged speaker, Help First, do no smarm. | |
| Best long low noise RCA cables There's nothing funny about bad punctuation. | |
| Cat damaged speaker, Help When I moved in with my gf a few years ago her cat peed on my Vienna Bach speakers...creepy but harmless (the incident, not the speakers which I sold anyway due to midrange congestion). Also peed on a Les Paul guitar case that to this day carries ... | |
| Best long low noise RCA cables NO...you shall remain unforgiven for eternity, and sentenced to 4 years in punctuation school. | |
| Best long low noise RCA cables What I mean should be obvious as I stated earlier that NO unbalanced single ended cable should be used for long signal runs...it's wrong, noisy, tawdry, and untoward, and I shall not support this sort of misbehavior. I insist that all cease this c... | |
| Best long low noise RCA cables Sort of like "best summer tire to use in snow." | |
| Who makes the highest quality tube amps? I LOVE meters...I often keep my Squeezebox Touch in its "meter mode" because it looks so cool. I think all amps should have glowing little needle meters...Pass does it...Cary, McIntosh, D'Agostino...I was looking at 2 new Rogers amps in a shop the... | |
| Jazz for aficionados My most recent live jazz mixing gigs (didn't record 'em)were the Jeremy Pelt Quintet and Bill Charlap's trio. Both amazing, plenty of info online. The other "coffee house" stuff wasn't jazz so that's for some other thread. | |
| Is it all in my head? Yeah man...I'm SO glad I'm not you...I'd have some 'splainin to do to everybody wondering where I went. | |
| Subsonic filter noise?? I tried the Sumiko Pearl after experiencing excessive treble emphasis from an AT440, and to get a local audio salesman OFF MY BACK. Apparently the Pearl is universally ignored because it's inexpensive (or something) and this guy has many years of ... | |
| Who makes the highest quality tube amps? I use a tube power amp because it has a characteristic that most well regarded solid state amps claim to have: It's "tube like." | |
| Jazz for aficionados I think the sax is tawdry, and leads to unwanted pregnancies. This is why I currently prefer piano trios. |