wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| Adding Sub to current system The REL's adjustments obviate an eq. All sub adjustments are based on personal taste responding to room interaction, so you can ignore most opinions from people not residing in your house. Also...it is possible to get low-ish bass from small woofe... | |
| Adding Sub to current system I scored a REL Q150E on ebay for $200 last year...all it needed was new grill cloth...and it works perfectly. If you can't dial in a proper sound by moving it around, adjusting phase, level, and crossover points I'd be surprised. Also note that al... | |
| So what is the best speaker you have ever owned? My speakers ONLY play below 40z...so I merely imagine all the rest. | |
| So what is the best speaker you have ever owned? It's tie between my current Silverline Preludes and my 70's Altec A7s. | |
| Do people buy MAC gear for the blue meters I bought a Squeezebox Touch and often have the "meter" setting on because I like it. It's cool and reminds me of my wasted youth spent in recording studios (now I waste my oldness in my digital, led metered studio). I also think the Appearance Fac... | |
| Preamp with tone control. MM only and the manual is at the Adcom site. | |
| Preamp with tone control. The Adcom GFP 715 is the last (discontinued) 2 channel pre from them...and I think it sounds amazing (MUCH better than the tuner/preamps, and as good as some much more expensive pre's I've used). Hard to find but relatively inexpensive and it has ... | |
| Is age bad for solid state amps? To sum up: Tubes die the quickest followed by hot running class A stuff. So there. I shall stick with my beloved 13 year old Class A/B amp until it leaks, blows up, or I feel like trading it in for something else...like a really expensive tube amp... | |
| Is age bad for solid state amps? If you only get 10 years or so from a SS used component that cost a fraction of a new one, I say you win. If you can't get it fixed somewhere that is kinda sad, but I've owned some stuff that seems to go on forever. I still have an Adcom 535II tha... | |
| Best $3,000 speaker/amp combo? We've whittled it down to exactly 15,752 options. | |
| Upgrade with best price/performance ratio I gotta second Unsound here...I discovered ear cleaning when as a pro guitar player for WAY too long my abused ears used to get clogged with wax. Ear cleaning with the bulb thing is really pretty great, and you can use the expelled wax to make a r... | |
| Best $3,000 speaker/amp combo? Lucky for you there is so much great used stuff out there (and in here) that 3 large can do some serious audio damage. A decent integrated with a Squeezebox and some of a seeming plethora of speakers...I found some perfect Silverline Preludes rece... | |
| Would you pay to listen? There are a LOT of humans involved in my stereo...the people who designed the components and sold them (inspired me to buy their stuff) to me are represented well...they aren't in the room with me, but I've been playing for people in clubs, at con... | |
| Would you pay to listen? The level of insulation from the Real World among the Audiophelia (that sounds like a creepy hearing fetish) always mystifies me...I don't think anybody noticed the point I made that high end retail places are awful at attracting new biz...and it ... | |
| portable ipod speakers? Interesting thread as my college age daughter wanted these (claims she blew up her last rig) and the only simple smallish ones with a sub I found are the Klipsch. I ended up giving her an old set of Altec powered sub/sat speakers I had previously ... |