wolf_garcia
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| D'Agostino Momentum amp melts down Really? "MOST amps fail the test?" Hmmm... also I disagree with the statement "This is pure entertainment with absolutely no value"...since when does "pure entertainment" lack value? Do happiness, mirth, delight, joy, glee, intense snarky and self... | |
| Need advice - EL34 switchable Ultralinear/SEP Get one of those Cary 120 amps...they look cool, switch modes on the fly (I think) and are well regarded...not EL34s...but still...powerful. | |
| D'Agostino Momentum amp melts down I thought that was hilarious...understandable thermal issue, but people love this amp SO MUCH they stand up for it! I've read several reviews if the thing (and its stereo "el cheapo" 20 something grand version) and was surprised Stereophile got to... | |
| AFFORDABLE HIGH VFM RACKS - Opinions Please... I relish agreement, even with an unnecessarily plural moniker. I appreciate groovy design, but extremely expensive racks are things I really doubt would pass a blind test if the components on the racks were individually isolated with the aforement... | |
| Reason for selling is... My reason is always, "I'm not worthy of such a fabulous component." | |
| When does non-delivery become a crime? Na...I only remember he had a shop in Rye, NY or someplace that I'd visit when rambling around Westchester on business. I also ran in to him once at a 1987 Stereophile show in NYC. I just remember him having some serious attitude, and when I asked... | |
| AFFORDABLE HIGH VFM RACKS - Opinions Please... If you put all (and I mean ALL) your gear on some sort of sorbothane-ish feet/pod things I think you can avoid the (perhaps silly) expense of often overpriced hifi specific racks. Really. Trust me. My groovy looking MDF and metal Walmart open rack... | |
| When does non-delivery become a crime? I met Rudy back in the mid 80s...he did become a famous scumball eventually, and really was well known among the Audio geekdom in the Upper Right Coast back in the day. Note to defrauded answer seekers: Almost every state has an under-utilized Att... | |
| Manley Stingray question Suggestion: Put the amp someplace where the child can't get at it. | |
| Speaker Placement Nothing gets by this crowd. | |
| Wadia debuts new Integrated I prefer gear that looks like it was made by bespecticled dudes in white lab coats in 1956. Williamson! Hafler! The new-ish Rogers amp looks like they kidnapped an elderly former Dynaco employee from the rest home and refused him his soup until he... | |
| Integrated Choice - Down to two It is true that turning a tube amp on and off for years is time you could have spent replacing all your shoelaces with velcro, learning to speak Croation, mastering Tai Chi, learning classic French offal smoking, and avoiding the dreaded "button p... | |
| kt77 vrs kt120 in Rogue M180s Tube failure just seems inexcusable to me. I have had tubes in guitar and bass amps that suffer insane abuse relative to our pampered hifi stuff (tube "combo" guitar amps have the speaker and amp in the same exact acoustic space) with 1 tube explo... | |
| Speaker Placement The sound live audiences hear is subject to almost infinite variables such as their seating relative to the speakers and performance source, the subsequent sound mix, ambient (reflected) sound, direct sound from the stage, and the hat size of the ... | |
| kt77 vrs kt120 in Rogue M180s FINALLY somebody who doesn't like KT120s! Bravo! I do think tubes tone characteristics are amp specific and I decided not to buy GL KT88s because the 120s sound so damn good (compared to my 2 other tube types anyway), but I still might try 'em sin... |