wolf_garcia

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Fuses that matter.
Bryoncunningham...maybe you put 'em in backwards. 
Krell or Bryston 4SST2
If the "world is your oyster", I think the proper term should be "current bed" instead of "crop.", unless this world is a single oyster, in which the scenario would be cramped and a little fishy. 
Frequency Response?
A 5 string bass with a low B string creates, at least at the fundamental tone, a 31hz signal...using test tones I've found that my system (including a sub) easily reproduces that frequency, and a nice test is the bass note at the beginning of Dona... 
Speaker Cable Different for 8ohm vs 4ohm
I find that using shorter speaker cables lessons the ability of the cables to actually physically reach to the location of my speakers, resulting in a distortion-free, low noise, utter lack of any sound at all. 
Fuses that matter.
The alleged benefits of the Nano fuse are obviated by my ability to buy 6 new CDs, several LPs ( I get nice used ones locally), or years of ear wax removal kits for my $60...and that's just one fuse. If there was a "fuse loaner" program out there ... 
KT120 transformer failures
My KT88s were an impulse purchase at a local "DIY" place and they're sets of "matched pair" Svetlanas...I think Svetlana has an OK reputation and in any case they weren't expensive (same Russian factory also). I think the KT120s have a little more... 
KT120 transformer failures
Jedinite24...did you stick the KT120s in yet? Mine keep getting better...not sure if they've peaked yet, but they likely have. Also, I discovered that some new tubes have a "new tube burning smell" that I thought might be the Jolida frying until I... 
Meldhau, Raitt
Yeah...I limit myself to mostly redbook CDs or lossless files into an upsampling DAC (or LPs), but both of these (only mentioned together because they arrived at about the same time) seem to have superior sonics, and music! 
Nick Lowe
Rockpile...man...back in the late 60's early 70's a friend got a "Love Sculpture" album. Period appropriate blazing over the top blues/rock guitar, and later I find out that was the young Dave Edmonds. 
Nick Lowe
Little Village is the coolest "super group nobody's heard of" EVER. Great album. 
Fuses that matter.
For now I've decided to ignore opinions about high end fuses and avoid using them unless somebody gives me one. It just seems like a simpler way to go, and hey, I have to take a stand someplace. Please feel free to ignore this opinion. 
Fuses that matter.
Refuse the re-fusers, or fuse with them...it's that simple. 
Fuses that matter.
Do you "re-fuse?" (my 32nd most cerebral pun of the decade). Follow the rubber line. Now I feel I have to take every piece of my gear apart and see if the wires are "direction appropriate"...would an electron microscope be useful in detecting the ... 
Extremely well recorded jazz double bass? cymbals?
I have a decent semi-recent issue LP of "Waltz for Debbie" on frequent rotation around my place. It's a fave...amazing. 
Amp design logic
So no sandwich?