wolf_garcia
Responses from wolf_garcia
| 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 ... | |
| How a turntable is like a gym membership Issues with "anal" behavior in an audiophile forum is like noting narcissism in a Hair and Makeup forum. If your turntable makes you uptight you really need to get out more. Deep breath...ahhh...There is an anachronistic "reel to reel" rebirth see... | |
| How a turntable is like a gym membership It is funny to me that anybody would have issues these days with the hastle of vinyl since digital streaming and/or CDs obviate those issues...simply said, if you don't want to fool around with vinyl, DON'T! If you have a lot of LPs like I do you ... | |
| How a turntable is like a gym membership I still use the word "groovy", I've been a musician/recording tech for over 40 years, and I love my Linn. I like digital also...and I wonder...why does this stuff have to be mutually exclusive? I'm too lazy to "digitize" all my vinyl, so I have fu... | |
| Would you pay to listen? If an audio dealer wanted to check my credit before letting me listen to THINGS THEY WERE TRYING TO GET ME TO BUY, they would never again see me or my hard earned money. Is there some weird cult of salespeople worship going on here? At a fave muse... | |
| Would you pay to listen? Yo Mitch4t...my day job is Comedy Writer. And I would pay $20 to watch people scurry around wiring up a 200K system I've designed for them to assemble for me. That in itself would be worth it..."little to the left there Bob...and don't forget the ... | |
| Would you pay to listen? Mitch4t...Wow...that one just steamed right by ya! Sorry though. I do have trouble with the practice of any form of mirth control. However, I suppose humorous or satirical writing has NO place in an audio forum and from now on I promise to be drea... |