wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| Have digital players improved It's about at least SEEMING smarter. Actually being smarter is something else altogether. | |
| Lifespan of a quality solid state amplifier? I might be halfway through my life and I feel radioactive sometimes so it's "win win". | |
| Have digital players improved Wolf Garcia said it best earlier, brilliantly using artistic metaphor...that guy is so interesting. Again, I add that I find a nice turntable rig is the only way to play LPs that haven't been turned into digital files (I suppose I could do that bu... | |
| Lifespan of a quality solid state amplifier? My personal experience of owning SS gear for many years is that leaving gear on 24/7 is silly, wasteful, completely unnecessary, tawdry, untoward, and pretty much unjustified by any meaningful data ...the wasted juice far exceeds the cost of any "... | |
| Have digital players improved I've recently been listening to a John Scofield recording called "A Moment's Peace" using an upsampling DAC (CD ripped to computer using a lossless format). It sounds amazing...stunning. Also recently been listening to an LP of Bill Evans' "Waltz ... | |
| XLR cable for basic beginner Having had a bad experience with Mogami balanced cables, I will say I replaced the cable to my Linn Akito with a sweet Japanese Jelco using Neglex wire that sounds great. See? Ya never know...also...arguing with anybody dropping an elitist "snark ... | |
| Getting started w/ tube equipment I second the "embrace Chinese designs" suggestion...I've seen (and currently use) some extremely well made stuff from our Chinese brothers. | |
| Mosfet mist? Who you calling "woof?" I've also worked on wafers...I spent the holidays working hard on drinking beer while eating only seeded wafer crackers. | |
| speaker wiring Bi-wiring my Silverline Preludes resulted in my learning what Alan Yun meant (in a phone conversation) by "less coherant". Bi-wiring is clearly speaker/amp/personal taste specific as Yun, in the case of the Preludes anyway, was right, and high qua... | |
| Mosfet mist? Exactly 37. | |
| Armoire between speakers I suppose the listeners can be bunched together as long as they're close friends who bathe frequently. | |
| Armoire between speakers A true dedicated room has only one meaningful seat...that is the sad truth about our hobby...*sigh*...that said, I don't care as long as I'm in the seat. | |
| New REL T7 / T9 vs. older REL Storm III? I have a 10 year old REL Q150E that I think sounds better than a friend's newer REL, although his might have an 8" woofer so there's that. Bought mine last year VERY cheaply and all it needed was new cloth and a speaker bolt tightening. I think mo... | |
| McIntosh MX 134 connect to Internet radio site? Squeezebox Touch...an amazing little thing. I use a silver coax into my DAC. | |
| Armoire between speakers I think some of these posters are part of a wider anti-furniture movement that will stop at nothing to strip us bare of armoirs and possibly hutches and cupboards! |