wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| How does the drum kit sound on your rig? Live drums are as dynamic as the drummer wants them to be...if all drummers just pounded the crap out of the kit it would be a boring and monodynamic world. I've worked with a LOT of drummers over the years and the best have a sense of dynamics an... | |
| speaker cable placement/arrangement OK so I spelled "diaphanous" wrong...damn...hate that... | |
| Why 24/7 warm-up period on amps? Your car will run a little better if you leave it on all the time, snow will never stick to the windows, and in the summer the AC will insure your car is always cool...sure it wastes gas, but so what? Waste is OK if the results make you feel good ... | |
| How does the drum kit sound on your rig? I find that there's a TON of really well recorded jazz stuff with amazingly real sounding drums...from Brad Mehldau to Bill Evans...Chick Corea's "Akoustic" bands, etc. | |
| How does the drum kit sound on your rig? Good drum sound kills me...I really love it when it's right. I've been a musician/sound tech for many years (and love to play drums, although guitar is my main thing) and my biggest drum beef is with record producers NOT getting the scale right...... | |
| speaker cable placement/arrangement I'm here for "my people" as but a humble servant. I've noticed some recent ads in high end mags showing speakers in glamorous spaces near gigantic windows with diaphonous curtains and a sultry female...NO speaker wire at all. I guess if your house... | |
| speaker cable placement/arrangement The only way to insure your cables are not exposed to vibration is to not use the speakers. Otherwise, as long as all your other cables are sufficiently shielded it simply makes sense to keep AC and speaker wires away from signal cables, with the ... | |
| Why 24/7 warm-up period on amps? Elizabeth clearly owns stock in an oil company and is trying to destroy the world. Other than that, she makes perfect sense. | |
| Best China made super integrated amplifiers Kavent, Shungya, Vincent. | |
| Help choosing speakers I think "Clem" is a great name for a boy and "Saffola" for a girl. | |
| Help choosing speakers I second the Vandersteen 1b or c...I had a new pair of 1Bs years ago (sold after having the factory repair some cat damage) and was amazed at how deep they went...just a great clean sounding speaker and you can find 'em used in good shape with sta... | |
| DAC placement Isonodes and Isopods under everything (including Isopods under my Silverline Preludes). The Isopods are so sticky they keep anything exactly where you put it...my DAC could withstand a pipe bomb. Be sure to note that too much isolation can cause c... | |
| HELP-woofer moves alot when playing lps I solved that issue in my ported speakers (and sub) with some "old stock" Nakamichi rumble filters (30hz) seemingly with no audible effect on the rest of the frequencies...you can still buy filters pretty cheap on Ebay...when I switched to a line ... | |
| help with music? All Steely Dan is amazing...vinyl and otherwise including the solo stuff from Becker and Fagan. I recommend John Scofield, especially the stuff with Medeski et al, for kick butt jazz (Metheny usually uses a too "apologetic" tone for my tastes), an... | |
| Final verdict with amplifier For the record, you can absolutely damage speakers before driving an amp into clipping, although a distorted amp will get 'em first. Most speakers will handle some quick and clean high powered transient peaks, but any high current amp of 100 watts... |