wolf_garcia
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| Need tube 101 info Fear not as you can have a lot of fun as a newbie "tube roller". Try to avoid the "local dealer explanation" option as the "audio salon" salespeople often (not always...there are some nice people out there) are opinionated, desperate burn outs wit... | |
| Budget vacuum tube preamp? I use SS into a tube amp only because I have a very low noise and capable preamp (and phono preamp), and because it's what I had when I bought the tube power amp. It sounds fabulous. I'm not sure the paranoia about preamp matching is justified tho... | |
| Unusual TAS bomb The value of that review was that it woke people up, although I'm not sure it was intentional. I also doubt that ARC would sell the DAC8 if it wasn't damn good, but starting from the rebuttal ARC posted to the avalanche of mail this must have gene... | |
| Budget vacuum tube preamp? Pacific Valve sells something inexpensive called the "YS Audio A1" that looks killer as does the remote "V2R"...their "Doge 8" seems pretty cool also, and is well regarded. The "Jolida Fusion" is also a sweet preamp...I've heard one of those and i... | |
| Fuse burned out in shipping? ? Is is very common for shippers to leave things on the roof of a truck during lunch breaks and while driving slowly, thus subjecting items to lightening storms and wind driven falling power lines which can blow a fuse in an otherwise packed and sea... | |
| The Best Compliment You've Gotten On Your Rig? I think the "golden age" of audio is now. | |
| When to go solid state vs. vacuum? After reading the otherwise ignored "measurements" part of a review of my speakers, I switched to the 4 ohm tap on my Jolida amp and I think it sounds better. I do use a snowblower...have to get that thing serviced. | |
| Looking for Silent Fan Cooling f my ARC Tube AMP A comment that uses extreme brevity and a hint of irony is a "micro crack". Also, fans have been cooling tube amps in one way or another (suck? blow?) seemingly forever, and this is the first I've heard of micro cracks...I'm suspicious...I'm going... | |
| Preamps waste of money? To gain absolute purity cred, you need to avoid music recorded by any method other than direct to disc, although ideally music should bypass everything and should only be listened to when performed by naked musicians using acoustic instruments pla... | |
| Ringing Sound In Tube Gear Be very careful and diligent with precious tubes...isolate them from harsh vibration and nurture them like sweet little gentle babies. Be nice to them. Except for the tubes in the 147 guitar and bass amps I've dragged all over the world since 1967. | |
| When to go solid state vs. vacuum? People paring 3 watt single ended tube amps with 84db 2 ohm speakers to listen to Mahler or Norwegian Death Metal are not to be allowed out if the house without supervision. I'm sticking to what I said...especially the part about "very inefficient... | |
| When to go solid state vs. vacuum? Speaker matching? Who can do THAT these days? Unless the speakers are very inefficient or designed by idiots they should work, although tone preference is personal. You can buy a factory upgraded 60wpc Jolida for half the cost of a Primaluna, and ... | |
| The Best Compliment You've Gotten On Your Rig? Try telling anyone not invested in this stuff how happy you are with your new power supply. The tube amp does elicit some surprise since you can see the tubes, and I just tell people, "don't be frightened". Unless you are hanging with another audi... | |
| The Best Compliment You've Gotten On Your Rig? Almost nobody compliments me on my rig because nobody cares (except a couple of fellow musicians), and when I demonstrate its wonderfulness to, for example, dinner guests , they sort of pretend to care but in that context they're likely being poli... | |
| Class A amps or Class D??: Which sounds better?? I took Corey's class at Yale...he was brilliant, albeit somewhat smelly. |