wolf_garcia
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| Do YOU have a flat frequency response in your room? My hifi room is uncorrected by any digital nannies (I use a Loki EQ for my headphones only) and my system sounds astoundingly good in its room with a what I suppose is called a "room sound." Music generally takes place in rooms if it's played by a... | |
| Speaker upgrade I prefer my Heresy IIIs over the IVs (I owned a pair for through "break-in" and sold 'em) because the titanium mid horn sounds better than the "polyimide." I mean way better. I'd like to hear Forte IIIs for that reason although my Heresy IIIs are ... | |
| THE IMPORTANCE OF TIME DOMAIN RESPONSE MUST READ MY WELL THOUGHT OUT RESPONSE...MUST READ...When I sit down in my system's sweet spot to listen to my well sorted gear pile, by far my favorite thing to play is a nice square wave. You can sit there dreaming or get up and dance...yeah man...give so... | |
| Tube preamp options Get a Schiit Freya + and cut through the fog of overpriced and often inferior preamps. Go Stereophile "Class A" and save thousands, or simply sink into the abyss of expectation bias...your choice. | |
| Pass Then vs. Pass Now I’ve owned a lot of amps over the decades (including a couple of 535s, preamps, etc.) and still use a later Adcom amp in my video rig. I had a great sounding Forte Model 55 amp that was sort of "Threshold adjacent" just before going all tube...in ... | |
| Microphonic from Vacuum Tubes? It’s likely haunted...few people mention this but it can’t be cured by tube dampers as it requires an exorcism (performed by any holy person, or simply a "holier than thou" person). This can also help with cable break-in, "otherwordly" soundstage ... | |
| Cable burn in I have a few Morrow cables and the longest it took for burn-in was 367 hours and 10 minutes. Once the cables are "burned" everything changes...food tastes better, colors are brighter, people are suddenly gathered on the street to hear a bit of my ... | |
| Primaluna or not Primaluna I had a Jolida amp for years...ran with pretty much all the tubes you listed and sounded great. | |
| How many people do you think have the same DAC, amplifier, and speakers The answer is 4. | |
| Viva Tubes I've bought a lot of tubes from Viva and they've always been prompt in shipping and every tube has been fine. I've called them to talk about things a couple of times and they're utterly professional and cool. | |
| What Neutral Means in Reviews & Our Discussions? Are We Confusing Tame/Flat For Neutral? Earlier ditto? What planet indeed. Some basics: A live show has actual musicians playing, which has a dynamic quality all its own and we all know that. Filmed ballet doesn’t cut it for me, but live does. My damned 50 years of experience has actual... | |
| What Neutral Means in Reviews & Our Discussions? Are We Confusing Tame/Flat For Neutral? "It appears you just don't dig live acoustic performances." It appears you don't comprehend much of what I've said, including the fact that live acoustic performances have been my life for decades. Why would I "not dig" Vijay Iyer's performance? I... | |
| 5 Dumb Things Audiophiles Believes. I think he's pretty cool, especially with his PRAT comments which closely track my thinking about that ridiculous and nonsensical term. | |
| Tubes, cheese, wine and cognac For years I found pretty much all Gold Lion tubes (120w, 150s, 88s, 66s)to be amazingly good in a couple of different power amps, and the KT66s are my preferred tubes in my current fave tube amp, a SEP Dennis Had Firebottle HO (high output, such a... | |
| What Neutral Means in Reviews & Our Discussions? Are We Confusing Tame/Flat For Neutral? "each and every live acoustic event is more or less "holy" in and of itself"...even when they sound bad? I’m not a religious person but maybe I should be to understand the "Holliness" of events, but some sound better than others, and to use them a... |