wolf_garcia
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| 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... | |
| VPI Scout Indeed...never take on a project that might require some effort as you may come away from the experience having learned something, and nobody wants that. | |
| Where's the trade off? Turn that thing off when you're not around, you wasteful boneheads! I think the "warm up myth" has ensnared too many at this point, and lends credence to the question: Do you listen to your gear or the music? If everybody tells you their gear heap... | |
| Magnepan Service HORRIBLE??? Magnapan and any other company that services products aren't so special as to be somehow immune to criticism. | |
| Jolida jd-502p Update: I switched the speaker outs on my 502p to the 4 ohm option, put the KT120s back in (I switch the power tubes around so often that I might wear out the sockets), and the slight mechanical hum went down to nearly inaudible. The combination o... | |
| rear firing tweeters.... Remember the Bose speakers that were designed to point 8 little EQd woofers (each) at the wall with one or two pointed at the listener? People loved those things...and then Bose took the front speakers off and turned them around to sell as Pro Sou... |