wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| Sad to hear the good people at Timbernation had a fire (and no insurance). Why is this on this forum? | |
| New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones) The review had the speaker on its side as it fit the available stands better and aimed the tweeter up slightly. With a coincident driver this won't matter (unless it's a tower speaker and then...well...it gets weird from there). I liked Jones' co... | |
| New MOFI speaker (Andrew Jones) I’ve never seen any speaker get the immediate drooling support and hype like this speaker. Andrew Jones is maybe the only speaker design superstar. Regarding China, that boat has sailed as an amazing amount of high end audio stuff is made there, a... | |
| How long does it take a decent quality speaker to "wear out"? Ask a guitar player who owns an original "tweed" Fender amp from 1954 or so. | |
| Starting Point for Room Treatments? Furniture, carpets, artwork...you wind up with something sounding like a "room" where people might live. Otherwise, it's s little messy but most would agree the best solution is to get ceramic sheets with small perforations and fill them with Chia... | |
| Convincing your local dealer to let you try speakers at home I think another solution to the auditioning issue is to load up a large truck with facsimiles of your listening space furnishings and hifi gear and bring all of it into an audio shop, arrange the furniture (and portable walls with windows if neede... | |
| patricia barber - diana krall - holly cole Patricia Barber forced me to remove the lid from a large Steinway and I had to put it back on after the show. I'm clearly not over that, but hey...she sounded brilliant. | |
| Who says studio monitors are "cold and analytical"? Kenjit clearly has never actually been in a studio, but I have. As far back as the late 60s and as recently as this year, and I can say without hesitation that studio monitors have never been "flat." Large horns, the JBL stuff in the 70s, those te... | |
| Four Hour Tube Amp Warm-Up My tube amps seem to warm up pretty quickly...10 to 20 minutes maybe? My Pass XA-25 takes about 45 minutes although it sounds damn good immediately upon start-up. | |
| Why is everyone so down on MQA? Tidal MQA sounds fine and I'm not sure how much unfolding is happening (Schiit Bifrost 2/64 multibit upgrade), but then my system sort of makes everything sound from fine to outstanding...and that's how it should be. | |
| Convincing your local dealer to let you try speakers at home With demo speakers it makes sense to allow you to take 'em home...a place in NH does that if you put a card on them to insure you don't run off. I'll never buy speakers again without a serious audition as I've had to return a pair of ZUs, sell a p... | |
| Pass Labs Speaker Choices XA-25 with Heresy IIIs sounds sweet and can make you happier and restore hair loss. | |
| Klipsch La Scala replacement? Heresy IIIs sound better to me having compared them to IVs in my system...the mid horn is far simpler (a complete re-design without the interesting horn throat design the IIIs have) in the IVs and has a plastic diaphragm instead of titanium. They'... | |
| Tube-Curious/Pre-amp I've owned lots of preamps over many years, but my original version Freya (early adopter) with NOS GEs is a superb sounding preamp with features nothing else even comes close to. Runs quieter in its tube mode than most SS or passive preamps do wit... | |
| I'm looking to add sub-woofers to my system... I bought my first used REL, a Q150e, for just over 200 bucks some years ago (8 or 10?), and later a Q108MK2 also for around 200 bucks...they're still in my main system and sound perfect. I bought another Q150e (maybe $300) a couple of years ago an... |