wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| Silverline Preludes : Still a good buy? OH NO!!! Kidding...I've upgraded everything around my Preludes and they've responded by sounding better and better, and they were great right out of the box!. I use an older REL Q150e sub with them and in my room they sound AMAZING. The most recen... | |
| Magnepan Service HORRIBLE??? The actual event that resulted in damage to the speakers, whatever was spent on packing, and the drought that may not have had much impact on Minnesota are all irrelevant to this discussion...HOW Magnapan handled this situation is the only real is... | |
| Phono Preamp Recommendations I use the 640p with a Pangea P100 power supply and it sounds great. Worth the 100 bucks for the Pangea. The 640p has been replaced by a new model (641P) that might be better, but I haven't compared them (the new one is basically the same price as ... | |
| Magnepan Service HORRIBLE??? Clearly. | |
| Budget Chinese Tube amps - any good? Beware of anybody claiming to have "golden" ears...they're more likely to be guilded tin. | |
| Faceplates Silver or Black??????? At night I like to see glowing tubes and the "output needle" setting on my Squeezebox Touch (unless it's off...then it displays a colorful analog clock thing). I have 2 Pangea power supplies with extremely bright LEDs that I put behind a little Br... | |
| Budget Chinese Tube amps - any good? I spoke to Michael Allen on the phone a couple of times when calling Jolida about my amp...minor questions regarding KT120s and like that...and it appears that Maryland Jolida is doing very well in spite of what might be a long, drawn out litigati... | |
| Magnepan Service HORRIBLE??? I just realized I do have an axe to grind, but it's an actual axe and bench grinder so I'm not sure it even matters to this thread. That said, a relevant point I can make illustrates the fact that a "lean organization" has even more incentive to n... | |
| Faceplates Silver or Black??????? Please note that I recommend "cruelty free" fake fur to cover components. Cruelty to people is fine, as there are too many of them anyway.Stealth paint from NASA would imply supporting the Military Industrial Complex and could result in the deafen... | |
| Faceplates Silver or Black??????? To sum up: Gear color is a matter of choice, and "Notbananas" does not want his wife to know he buys cosmetic-free women based on performance.Also...United Home Audio (sounds like a socialist hifi movement) puts Asian patterned stickers on some we... | |
| Budget Chinese Tube amps - any good? I bought a new factory modded/upgraded Jolida JD502p power amp some months ago and it's working out really well...it was amazingly inexpensive. It's a powerful sweet sounding amp (with the XLR inputs that I wanted) for about half the cost of what ... | |
| Anyone auditioned Pass Labs XP-30 preamp? I also find Ed Momkus to be too clinical. | |
| Faceplates Silver or Black??????? Silver (my preamp is silver as there was no other option) is easier to find if stumbling around in the dark, and absorbs less heat in direct sunlight when outside, which it never is. The rest of my stuff is black, because it's more slimming and ma... | |
| Magnepan Service HORRIBLE??? I hope this dilemma goes on for a while as it is sort of entertaining. | |
| Don't read you'll be sorry I've always like AQ cables, but was slightly worried when I bought some from a fellow audiophile in China. I took them to a friend who works a nearby high end audio store, compared them to new ones, and they passed the authenticity test. I come ou... |