wolf_garcia
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| Fuses that matter. Real leather is better for listening as it keeps the spiritual essence of the dead cow around you, and we all know the audible benefits of that...I got ROOMS full of that stuff! | |
| Driver/Input tubes My understanding is that the 12ax7s are the input tubes, have the greater influence on tone, and the 12at7s do the driving. It seems the EH 12at7s are relatively well regarded in the driver role so I'm using them (they're stock with a new JD502P),... | |
| The finest Cable Elevators you ever auditioned? I'm offended by the apology. | |
| The finest Cable Elevators you ever auditioned? Cable fire escapes are also important. | |
| The finest Cable Elevators you ever auditioned? I prefer cable elevators with a white gloved elevator operator. It just makes it all so classy. | |
| Jolida jd-502p I use a PS Audio Humbuster III plugged into my trusty Adcom ACE 515. Seems to work splendidly. By the way...I noticed a very small mechanical (not in the speakers at all) buzz from the 502 when using the KT120s...not a big deal...but there...so I ... | |
| More power for better sound at low volumes? Upper case letters are clearer at low volume. I've had giant horn loaded speakers and small bookshelf speakers...at the same low volume level they both are low in volume, and things aren't as audible because they just aren't. That's just the way i... | |
| The finest Cable Elevators you ever auditioned? Imagine the strings running from the ceiling to near the floor where it holds the wires and you get the picture, and likely divorce court. | |
| How to get the impact of a live concert? In the early 80s I stuck 300 watt 15" bass guitar speakers in my Altec A7s...either JBLs or Electro Voice ...now THAT handled the thump. The "phased array" stuff you hear in most large concerts are interesting designs...usually stacks of class D s... | |
| The finest Cable Elevators you ever auditioned? My little remote helicopter would suffer. Also, the clear answer is to run the wires outside the room in padded conduits and then back in to the speakers through maybe bass trap tubes . | |
| How to get the impact of a live concert? I'd personally feel a little weird sitting alone in a huge room in my McMansion with huge speakers driven by mega watt amps...listening to my fave little jazz trios? I'd have to get a smoking jacket or something...Bach cello suites blasting away..... | |
| The finest Cable Elevators you ever auditioned? I joked with a dude in a respected hifi "salon" that the answer was hanging the cables from strings attached to the ceiling...like marionettes...and he claimed he knows someone who did that. Man.... | |
| How to get the impact of a live concert? Here's some reality...relatively "uncompressed" sound is one difference that the live stuff gives you...and NO home audio speaker I know of could handle even one live miked kick drum thump without exploding...none. Period...you need extreme "pro" ... | |
| How to get the impact of a live concert? I noodle along on an electric guitar or bass using a tube amp with my PA driven drum tracks for hours everyday...so you could merely come to my house. Also, modern "constant directivity" PA horns in high quality systems are often pretty clear...no... | |
| How to get the impact of a live concert? I owned a pair if Altec A7s for years...part of my PA all through the 70s (eventually bi-amped), and made cool (albeit large), sweet sounding (that middy horn and woody wood box) stereo speakers although somewhat colored sounding by today's standa... |