wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| Power conditioner vs use of a audio grade outlet? I use high quality outlets for their obvious grabbiness as that's sort of comforting. Note that none of the "premium" AC cables I use display that sort of grabbiness on the component end...weird... | |
| Hi-end audio is a big zero In recent years I've sent back or sold some well regarded speakers when they didn't have the mojo I seem to require from them in my listening space...just the way it goes. I've been much luckier with my amp and front end choices but would never b... | |
| Powered speakers show audiophiles are confused Due to incipient and clearly evil air born vibrations of all sorts, it's important to remember to never play music through any gear near any speakers. Further, it's also important to avoid the use of any speakers in the first place to listen to mu... | |
| Schiit Freya + I've owned an original version Freya for years (many other preamps preceded it) rolling various tubes through it and settled on NOS GEs. Seemingly its only flaw is its price as it's just too damn inexpensive for many audio snobs. It's a superb pre... | |
| Types of Audiophiles You missed "Pretentious Know-it-all Who's Compelled to Categorize People." | |
| Does an Audioquest Niagra 1200 limit amplifier dynamics? My Bryston Bit 15 seems to do no harm...a huge Piltron transformer. | |
| Has new music gone down the tubes? Music on the radio has aways mostly been awful as have most movies. Decade after decade. We only remember what we liked and (thankfully) forget the crappy stuff. | |
| Has new music gone down the tubes? Go see musicians in the "folkie" (acoustic generally) club nearby as that's where some great young talent is working. And note that most pop music has always mostly sucked as for every Joni or Beatles or Little Feat album there was plenty of stuff... | |
| Not Chinese Fakes But Not big $$$ Either I’ve built cables for years, most recently a few subwoofer cables for my RELs (3) made from Canare /Neutrik/AQ plugs...it’s fun and who does’t like heat shrink tubing? However, I recently bought a 13 1/2’ foot pair of the newest version of the Kim... | |
| I keep being reminded of how much power cords mater I've compared my fancy "garden hose" power cables to ones supplied with a Pass Labs amp and a Bryston power conditioner...no difference. One imagines both Bryston and Pass know what they're doing, but hey...it's hard to compete with the hallowed c... | |
| Why do Tube Amps sound more romantic v SS amps Baloney to a couple of posts here...there are plenty of inexpensive tube amps out there that I’d wager are far superior in every way to cheap SS amps...I owned a Jolida 502 tube power amp for years and it sounded magnificent relative to some well ... | |
| What should be mandatory in every professional published review- El redundo los bloviato a mundo. | |
| What should be mandatory in every professional published review- Nope, there isn't. And trust me....I read and think about this stuff WAY too much. You simply won't ACTUALLY know the sound of a thing unless you give a component time in your system...If a lot of reviewers say the same thing about something you c... | |
| What selections do you play when showing off your system to others? I'm hardly cynical...and it's not a "stance" as I did use the word "generally." I'm simply speaking from many years of reality with this stuff, and yeah they "can" turn towards it and it baffles me that most people just don't...they want giant scr... | |
| What should be mandatory in every professional published review- There is no way to "calibrate" your hearing...you simply have to hear things yourself as (previously stated I thought) generally you not only haven't heard the item being reviewed at length in your system, you likely haven't heard any of whatever ... |