wolf_garcia
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| Experienced Jolida amp owners - Advice needed Jolida uses whatever works...they're not "point to point" hand wired esoterica which makes them more affordable. Since they offer a very wide range of products I assume they work with a wide range of speakers (my amp has 4 and 8 ohm transformer ta... | |
| Solid State for Rock and Tubes for Jazz, Yes or No I find my system has difficulty with Algerian Death Polka. | |
| How to get the impact of a live concert? Please outline the effective "simple test", as I am clearly both simple and testy. | |
| Speaker cables or interconnects?? I'm also an AQ fan...for many years. I currently have an all solid core wire festival in my system and love the Type 8 speaker wire I bought to replace some Type 4 (no reason...just compulsive wire curiosity). To the uninitiated, all of it from th... | |
| Solid State for Rock and Tubes for Jazz, Yes or No Implying a hifi system task distinction between reproduced jazz and whatever people call rock is really weird to me. There is every bit as much dynamic juice in jazz as rock, although rock is often more compressed and "mono-dynamic." "Flea watt" a... | |
| How to get the impact of a live concert? Music is only composed of harmonic content so yeah...but I don't think distortion necessarily increases perceived loudness. Example: I can play electric guitar cleanly or with various types and degrees of distortion (ss stompbox FET or Mosfet, or ... | |
| How to get the impact of a live concert? Dynamics are simply the perception of loud and soft relative to each other as perceived by the listener. The ear uses the relative difference between sounds to determine "loudness" and that has zero to do with harmonics. | |
| Experienced Jolida amp owners - Advice needed Jolida makes great stuff, and you really don't need "auto bias" if you own a small screwdriver and the amp is an "ez-bias" model. Takes about 46 seconds to bias 4 tubes. | |
| is it safe to clean records with isopropanol ? You can look forward to a sixty second birthday. An entire minute. | |
| is it safe to clean records with isopropanol ? I'm not sure what chemicals are in my Spin Clean fluid, but I can say it makes a terrible margarita. | |
| Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks type music, any others? Dan Hicks is all basically clever swing stuff...I saw him again live earlier this year and he really is an underrated singer, and always killer in any combo...seen him with from 2 dudes to an entire largish band. A great Pandora station is John Jo... | |
| NOS KT 88s or GE 6550s I've been told that the transformer would get into trouble sooner than later if the KT120s were incompatible somehow...but my informal research results remain: Happy KT120 users in the thousands, reported transformer deaths 0. It will be a sad day... | |
| NOS KT 88s or GE 6550s KT120s continue to rack up the cred...I stuck a set of them in a newer Jolida 502p that wasn't designed for them (I did check with Jolida and they insisted the extra heater burden was non issue) and stood back in case the amp was gonna explode...i... | |
| Primaluna Dialog Two Integrated Amp vs Cayin A-88T Check out a Jolida...often more watts for your money, and they sound great. | |
| How to connect a Squeezebox Touch to a NAS device I'll call 'em...I hope they still support the "Touch." |