wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| New DAC??? Jolida FX tube DAC??? The DACMagic is lifted to a higher level with the $100 Pangea power supply, and still keeps the "shopping around" price well under 600. | |
| Pre-amp with balanced suggestions? A new Kavent S-33 is much cheaper than 3K, and will stuff the monkeys out of most gear 3 times the price. | |
| How to clean the exterior of an amp? Use windex. On anything except newer Cambridge Audio. | |
| Preamp hissing detectable at low volume? I change the polarity on things (recently my TT had a little noise after removing it for something...reversed the AC plug and it's quiet again), lift the ground wherever I need to, etc. Even my REL sub that is on a different wall plug than the res... | |
| Looking for a DAC for the Squeezebox Touch Note that adding a better power supply (in my case the Pangea P100) to the DACMagic bumps it up to another level and sounds even better with the SBT. Amazing. | |
| Piano Notes On Harbeth SHL 5 Piano strings are in groups that decay in various degrees if sustained...compare a digital piano by muting it during a chord strike and then bring in the volume while it's decaying and you can demo what I mean...an actual piano has movement and ha... | |
| Speaker cable vibration? Harbeth makes very expensive speakers that vibrate like crazy...part of their design. | |
| Speaker cable vibration? "Respecting claims" led to Tice Clocks and Mpingo discs. I can "hear" the difference between logic and myth most of the time, and claiming to hear a difference between spades and bananas makes you a "connectist". | |
| Any advantages to bi-wiring speakers vs. single My conversation the Yun was only about the Preludes...and I confirmed his thoughts when I tried it both ways. I've biwired other speakers and it seemed to improve 'em so I was actually surprised. | |
| Speaker cable vibration? Audiofeil is wrong because apparently Sonic_genius hears a difference, and he's not shy about it. The Anti Banana movement is alive and well, and causing grief among Vandersteen and vintage Creek users. Personally, I live an open and welcoming lif... | |
| Any advantages to bi-wiring speakers vs. single Some people like incoherency I suppose...but there does seem to be a little trend among other speaker makers to supply one set of posts and make a statement about it. I think the option is nice, and gives the listener something to play around with... | |
| Integrated Amplifiers with neutral sound Kiza seems to be baiting me...a Master Baiter perhaps? | |
| Integrated Amplifiers with neutral sound Actually, the original poster said he had warm speakers...so you need to balance with a cold sounding integrated to result in that ideal sound: Tepid. | |
| Integrated Amplifiers with neutral sound Vincent makes a nice integrated...Shunya, Kavent...all sort of related and big bang for the buck. | |
| Any advantages to bi-wiring speakers vs. single Biwiring must depend on the speaker brand...Alan Yun told me NOT to biwire my Silverline Preludes that he designed...he said they would be "less coherent". I biwired them anyway (yeah man...a rebel!), listened, put 'em back to single wire, listene... |