wolf_garcia
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| What Neutral Means in Reviews & Our Discussions? Are We Confusing Tame/Flat For Neutral? Live acoustic music has acoustic signatures and anomalies from myriad reflections and time and phase realities, all interdependent and only becoming a reality at the moment it reaches your ears. | |
| What Neutral Means in Reviews & Our Discussions? Are We Confusing Tame/Flat For Neutral? Over 5 plus decades I've mixed many live concerts, performed both as a solo player and as part of live bands, done studio work for my own stuff and commercial recording gigs, own my own studio...blah blah blah...none of which makes my opinion more... | |
| Help finding a subwoofer Here's a negative comment about REL subs: I use 3 from the same era, 2 Q150s and a Q108 MK2, and REL will not repair them...no no no. I inquired about this and they stated to me in no uncertain terms...no. There ya go. I still like RELs though and... | |
| What Neutral Means in Reviews & Our Discussions? Are We Confusing Tame/Flat For Neutral? I often wonder what the deal is with the live sound reference as the benchmark for high quality in audio. Do live things always sound right? If I play an acoustic guitar which clearly sounds different to the player than somebody sitting near the p... | |
| Maybe this is the winter you build something! A raft so I can escape. | |
| What Neutral Means in Reviews & Our Discussions? Are We Confusing Tame/Flat For Neutral? Neutral means not in gear. Or non combative. Colorless? In any case, if reproduced music in a system sounds good to YOU it means something about the system (and the recording) is working properly and you're free from wondering what neutral means. ... | |
| BluSound Node and Node 2 My Node 2i works great until it decides to not load itself properly. I've figured out how to simply help it find itself again but meh...I'll get tired of it eventually and upgrade to something else. Also I think its DAC sucks and I use a great sou... | |
| Does creating a loom in cables in a system make a significant difference? I say if you have crappy cables it's important to have ALL crappy cables for consistency. Also, if you decide otherwise, it's important to use a forum like this to note how you've bought expensive cables and like to be recognized for the serious l... | |
| Zu Dirty Weekend 6 went on sale today The lesson I learned from that most recent round of new speaker curiosity (Really simply curiosity, as my speakers at the time were working swimmingly) was to absolutely listen to speakers before buying. No amount of hyperbole will match your spec... | |
| Zu Dirty Weekend 6 went on sale today I bought a pair of Dirty Weekends a year and a half or so ago and after what I thought was a reasonable break-in period I put my Heresy IIIs (Capitol Records anniversary edition...for whatever that's worth) back in...I was amazed at how much bette... | |
| When someone tells you it's a $40,000 amp, does it sound better? Does my Pass XA-25 contain expensive components? It seems like it might. Would a D’Agostino’s 4 or 5 watts (which is what my speakers require to put music into my earballs) into my 99 db speakers sound better? 5 to 10 times better? Are they better... | |
| Post binding for crude tone control Out of curiosity and having temporarily taken leave of my senses, I made some jumpers out of the same wire as some great speaker cable I was using and they actually sounded worse. The gold plated jumpers on speakers are fine...it's silly to worry ... | |
| Joni Mitchell remasters on the way I do stream (frequently...upstream often without a paddle) with some relatively high res gear and I'm not afraid to admit it. I'll check out the new Joni and see what's what, but really my point about this is that Joni was so profoundly beyond any... | |
| Joni Mitchell remasters on the way I have pretty much every Joni album on vinyl (originals) and somehow I doubt that remastering is going to make this astonishing music better...these albums sounded great then and still do. No problem with remastering per-se (bought the Band "brown... | |
| Preamps can color sound considerably. Surprising? I was an early adopter of a Schiit Freya preamp...the original version that doesn’t turn the tubes off when switching to "passive" or "FET" modes. You want to hear how much the tube mode distorts or at least hear what sounds different from passive... |